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My mighty Merc is up for sale to fund an irrational desire for a Maserati
As well as being a fairly radically tuned car it is left hand drive which makes it quite a niche sale. Anyone got experience of selling this kind of car. Where to advertise / promote it?
I have stuck an advert on Pistonheads and posted some links on Facebook to a sale site I created.
Any suggestions welcome. Also feel free to sharer the link below with anyone who might be interested.
Good luck with your sale Nick, not the best time at the moment. I'd be surprised if I can sell my car now, probably be the autumn at the earliest.
Try the usual online platforms, I've got an ad running on carandclassic which is free. Free ads in Octane are good too, that's where I sold the 250 TR. Magazine sales will probably be right down even if they get printed, subscribers should still get copies though if they are .
Not at all. I was in the position some years ago when I could ask myself "What car would I LIKE to drive?" and the answer for me was a Maserati. Which is why I got mine.
OK, it's not the 450S that I wanted... but the Z300S Barchetta goes some way, a little way towards that.
Good luck with selling any car for a reasonable price atm.
[i]Pretty impressive advert though.[/] - a few photos and follow the Wix template. Tried to keep the wording as simple as possible. The people who are likely to buy the car will probably know what it is, or at least have enough knowledge to decide.
Any advice on process, costs, companies welcome. The guy doesn't want to drive it around England and then to his house so wants to get it shipped to him.
He will be arranging it all but I thought someone here might know what he has to do.
I had a young lad and his dad come in to the workshop when it was in for some cosmetic repairs,
I started it up for the lad and he literally jumped out of his skin at the sound of it, his face was a picture, it sounds like thunder, a great car so good luck with the sale Nick.
The noise is amazing and is why I was allowed to buy the car.
A friend of mine deals in interesting cars and knows I like Mercedes - I had a CL600 at the time. He had just picked the car up and thought he would drive round to my house to show it off. I was away from the house at the time but my wife, who is not a car lover, was at the back of the house when she heard it pull up. She ran to the front of the house to see what it was and when she saw Ian in the car she rang me. I still remember her excited voice "I don't know what it is but it sounds gorgeous and even Ian looks good in that. You can sell the silver one and buy it"
Another recent thing was when I got it serviced. The garage owner will not let anyone else work on the car and the receptionist, his wife, asked why not. The car was in the enclosed working bay and he told her to stand near by when he revved it. She quivered, went bright red and ran back to the reception. I walked back and she giggled - that is perfectly tuned to twiddle the lady bits.