Most expensive Excel ?

[Alan_M]

A celebration with reported 14,000 miles from new.

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1807242

[TrevorK]

An optimistic price. I don't understand why one would pay extra for a super-low-mileage car because, but if you use it, you lose all that premium and I can't see the point of just sticking it in a garage.

[Lotus-e-Clan]

An optimistic price. I don't understand why one would pay extra for a super-low-mileage car because, but if you use it, you lose all that premium and I can't see the point of just sticking it in a garage.

Whilst I can see your point, and it's a common sense position, if I were considering a lifetime classic to run for the next 20 to 30 years, I would want the best available as a starting point. So id buy it for 35k, and use it like any other classic.
As it stands, I've got possibly just 10 more years on this planet, so it's not for me, and my current Excel will see me out.

I've never bought any car as an investment. Some people do, some don't.

[shaunw]

Just visited the sellers website, sold already!

Shaun

[DavidOliver]

There must be a message beind this on what we value our cars at. If it is actually sold?
The cost of maintaining our beautiful cars in running order is rising significantly, most of us do not add in mechanic cost when renovating, for someone to garage his car for maintenance would add thousands to the investment.
As the Excel is a car we enjoy tinkling with, I do, tomorrows value is a lot higher than current sale prices, and there is a lot of very costly Projects being displayed on places like Youtube.
What other car compares to our Excels?

Dave the cog

[MetBlue]

By my logic, somethings not adding up.
Just looked on MOT checker. It was MOTd in Dec 24, is taxed for a full year, but last V5 issued Aug 24. Dealers don't normally prompt V5 issue (to best of my knowledge). Be interesting to see if a V5 gets issued in near future.

[Lotus-e-Clan]

By my logic, somethings not adding up.
Just looked on MOT checker. It was MOTd in Dec 24, is taxed for a full year, but last V5 issued Aug 24. Dealers don't normally prompt V5 issue (to best of my knowledge). Be interesting to see if a V5 gets issued in near future.

I recently sourced a car for my daughter. It was Merc E class imported from Japan. When I looked up the MOT record I found similar pattern with a new V5 issued.

BTW, I'd go for a Jap import again. No rust! And Low mileage. Apparently the stricter regs over there means more economical to sell for export than completely replace the braking system etc. The only wrinkle was the Japanese Infotainment would require a new physical unit. They use different bands for FM etc.

[bash]

Get one of these Peter, used one in a mx5/eunos years ago to make the standard radio work.

Bash
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315288457270 ... d_source=1

[Lotus-e-Clan]

Get one of these Peter, used one in a mx5/eunos years ago to make the standard radio work.

Bash
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315288457270 ... d_source=1

That's the answer then! Thanks bash.

I'll forward the link to my daughter.

I've learnt not to buy things for her expecting a refund... She's very canny... And tight.. and unlike my son, not even born in Yorkshire.. she was born in Winchester!

[supraholic]

What other car compares to our Excels?

Dave the cog

Your parts cousin, the second generation Toyota Supra. We've just seen a record set on Bring-a-Trailer at $48,000 US, which is over $50,000 with buyers fees plus the buyer probably paid another couple of thousand to ship it across country. What made that sale even more interesting and shocked me was that it was originally an automatic transmission car and somebody converted it to a manual transmission, complete with swapping an instrument cluster from a manual car. So even tho it had very low miles, it wasn't a pristine, completely stock, original car and there was some question about whether the miles were even as low as advertised. We'd seen some museum quality examples get into the $40s before, but usually modified cars take a serious hit. I bought mine when I was right out of college and modified the heck out of it, even selling many of the original parts to offset costs, so mine's not worth anywhere near the record unfortunately.

But its about demographics. When I first started participating in car shows (I first restored a 1966 Mustang back in the late 80s), there would always be a couple of dozen Ford Model As show up, displayed by grey-haired old men wearing their Model A Club vests, adorned with patches commemorating each of the club events that they'd attended from the 1950s through the 1980s. Today, we're lucky to have even one Model A show up and I last saw one of those club vests about 15 years ago. I assume the Model A cars are still around, probably stored in some heir's garage, but they don't come out anymore because that was grandpa's car, his hobby, not the grandson's. Gramps memory is still too fresh to scrap it yet, but that will be the eventual fate of many of them, particularly the unfinished projects. The grandson is probably driving an Evo or WRX (or more likely an SUV and just dreaming of an Evo). The first collector car on everyone's list is usually the NEW car that they wanted but couldn't afford when they were just coming of driving age. Right now, the cars of the 40's and 50s, like my dad's hot rod 49 shoebox Ford are on the way down. Peak value is equivalent to peak nostalgia/peak net worth, which happens to most men (and some women too) between the ages of 50 and 70).

Muscle cars of the 60s may have a little more staying power because they can still keep up with modern freeway traffic but we're already seeing some softening of prices as some of those baby boomers are aging out. When I first got into C3 Corvettes about 20 years ago, there were lots of 70 year old men who would tell me that the last real Corvette was made in 1967 and everything after that was a mistake. After a few years, I started seeing some of those same old men show up with a C7. I'd ask what happened to their C2 and I'd get back "Well, after having <insert joint> replacement surgery, I was having trouble operating the clutch or getting underneath the car to work on it so a new Corvette with an automatic transmission and a warranty started to sound pretty good." And now some have sold their C7s and aren't coming anymore. Cars of the 80s and 90s are going up simply because of demographics, but don't hold on too long, because they'll go back down again as WE age out, or at least plateau and be left behind by inflation.