Proper car for sale at last

samuri-240 said:
Totally agree Alan, that car has sold for a ridiculous amount of money probably because its painted in Samuri colours. Many people think there is something very special about a Samuri & would pay a very high premium to own one :confused: The car I have now is far superior to CHL the Samuri I used to own. Its one of them mysteries in life to me, how many of these Samuri's are the real deal ? also I see some more have been produced in recent times :confused::confused: Its all b******t is'nt it.
All I can say good luck to them fools with more money than sense.
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The whole 'Samuri' thing continues to be a proper old Jamboree Bag. You just never know what you are going to get, do you?

I've never had much time for the whole shebang, and yet there are 'Samuri' cars that were and are important, and should be acknowledged as such. I'm thinking of cars such as 'Big Sam', 'FFA' and 'LAL'. In 'LAL's' case, it took part in at least two rounds of the World Championship of Makes (the World Sportscar Championship, no less) and that - to my mind - is a quite extraordinary story.

THAT is the kind of stuff that cars like this auctioned 260Z today benefit from by association.
 
MikeB said:
Cheers Alan, so is this one of those "Continuation" models, so loved in the likes of Jaguar E Type Lightweights, Aston Martin Zagatos, Ford GT Fraudy, etc?
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No, I believe it's a pucka 'Samuri' (whatever that means this week). Authenticated as such by the man hisself. And therein lies the moveable feast....
 
Albrecht said:
I'd absolutely beg to differ on that particular point.
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I think you miss my point here, if this car was advertised on eBay with the accreditation (although that's a whole different story, if by accreditation we mean the register) but without the paint,and failed to sell, even at 20k less then it is just the wrong place to try to sell it. The paint and stripes did not increase its value that much, the auction house and the venue did that. The usual cr@p in the catalogue also assisted I'm sure.

And yes I do think a good car will make strong money in the correct environment. :rolleyes:
 
JK240 said:
I think you miss my point here, if this car was advertised on eBay with the accreditation (although that's a whole different story, if by accreditation we mean the register) but without the paint,and failed to sell, even at 20k less then it is just the wrong place to try to sell it.
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I think you are wrong.

When the car appeared on eBay initially, the auction had been ended early, we will never know what the car would or wouldn't have made.

Where you are right though.

The car presented in perhaps the correct livery, one that the general public could research and associate with a Samuri, advertised all over the net, finally to be auctioned through a good auction house had every chance.

Again though, if had been advertised via eBay, we will never know what it might have sold for.

Albrecht is correct though, the livery made all the difference.

Steve
 
When I sold my old car I based the price on what I could 'break' it for.

So how much is the Sam sold today worth on a parts basis - frightening!
 
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