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Old 4th August 2018, 08:53
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Can't help but chip in to agree with Oxford, Lucky and Paul. Why is anything worth anything more than the cost of its basic materials?

I mean, why would anybody in their right mind pay thirty five million pounds for an 'average' house in Kensington Palace Gardens, West London, when the cost of materials and labour to build even the most impressive house in the street would be unlikely to exceed £500k?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-a7978451.html

And you must be insane to pay $450,000,000 (yes, four hundred and fifty million U.S. dollars) for an old painting of a long dead religious leader (who appears to be sponsored by Camelot, 'it could be you...'), when Leonardo reused an old canvas he'd had kicking around his studio for years and spent about five Soldinos (tuppence ha'penny) on paint.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/articl...vre/index.html

Then back to rebody/homages/Tributes/copies of classic cars. The Lynx D Type is a rebody that uses an E Type Jag as a donor.

https://petrolicious.com/articles/th...onal-dream-car

Okay, it's a high quality recreation and E Types are valuable classics in their own right, but I'm pretty sure Lynx don't use concourse quality cars as donors, but worn out and unloved examples in need of refurbishment and a new lease of life.

So that means that Lynx are in exactly the same category as those of us who have built Sammios, Miglias, Tributes, etc. out of old Spitfires, Heralds, Vitesses, MX5's and Z3's.

And the prices that Lynx D Types and XKSS's achieve at auction or by private treaty?

Well, in 2010 a Lynx XKSS sold for £43,000 and that was thought by some to be a lot of money for a recreation.

In 2016 one of their D Types sold for £157,500 and that was thought by some to be a lot of money for a recreation.

http://www.silverstoneauctions.com/1...d-type-by-lynx

And today? Well, last month there was a Lynx D Type advertised in the back of Octane magazine for £330,000. Rochdale, I guess you think that's an awful lot of money for a rebody. I'm pretty sure there are people out there with deeper pockets than you (or I) who disagree and it will find a buyer at that price.

These cars, even our rebodies on humble old Triumphs, Mazdas and American built BMW's, are desirable cars in their own right. They bring joy to their builders, those who subsequently drive them and those who see them drive past.

The cash value people put on that depends on their bank balance, but there's no shortage of people who have the funds to buy a car that makes them smile but don't have the skills or time to build one themselves.

My car (the silver Spyder above) sold within a month of advertising it.

I initially turned down offers of £17k and £18.5k from a UK buyer. I turned down 20,000 Euros from two different European classic car dealers, who were both still negotiating with me when I was offered the asking price less the cost of a transporter to deliver it to one of the buyer's classic storage facilities.

Which means these cars are both desirable and will cost what you consider an awful lot of money to buy one.

So, Rochdale, how about you start a build of your own and show us what you think a decent home built kit car looks like?
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