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colt

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a friend of mine has a rhd 64rs,65k black with triple purple recaros,bolt in half cage,hot film and remap, lots of history and bills, mainly road miles in his ownership of five years plus(was 28k when he bought it),thinking of selling not sure what its realistically worth at the mo?
any thoughts from the armchair experts!!
 
A very difficult question to answer. The only rhd car currently for sale with a dealer, is at Hairpin and on at £65K. Six months to a year ago that may have been about right but it's difficult to know whether that's the "going rate" now. Just take a look at all the lhd cars in the UK which don't seem to be selling, from the £75K Club Sport at GT Classics to the water damaged £32K light weight on Pistonheads. Also, many of the cars for sale in Europe don't seem to be selling either.

Colt, unless your friend needs the money, I'd suggest now is not the time to sell.

Damen
 
The 75k clubsport at GT Classics sold quickly.

Think you will find most of the decent lhd cars are going reasonably quickly back to fatherland because of exchange rate.

RHD is trickier at the mo as a much more reduced marketplace.

I'd guess 50K+ though
 
It's ironic (maybe not) that the market is firmly now LHD with the demise of the British Pound, anyone selling a LHD Porsche particularly RS or anything collectable should be posting on sites like Mobile.de ... where cars ARE selling .... having had a recent chat with a well known RS retailer in Germany - he sited a 64 N-GT that also sold to a collector circa Euro 115,000 ex- UK car, American Buyers seem very fickle wanting every last nut and bolt with original factory grease and delivery plastic on the seats! "There are no Virgins in the Bordello" he can provide the cars but at "Virgin Money". I could not find anything less than Euro 60,000 for a LHD 64RS Carpet ... dare I say with the current crunch LHD is closing on RHD prices. There seems to be a rarity of 64RS in Europe, a lot more Replicas or "Optik Cars" in the classifieds.

I would think, Macua, Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zealand/Australia may be worth looking at or keep them and they will return to higher levels with only about 70 RHD cars Worldwide ... just not UK at the moment.

 

ORIGINAL: carreraboy

It's ironic (maybe not) that the market is firmly now LHD with the demise of the British Pound, anyone selling a LHD Porsche particularly RS or anything collectable should be posting on sites like Mobile.de ... where cars ARE selling .... having had a recent chat with a well known RS retailer in Germany - he sited a 64 N-GT that also sold to a collector circa Euro 115,000 ex- UK car, American Buyers seem very fickle wanting every last nut and bolt with original factory grease and delivery plastic on the seats! "There are no Virgins in the Bordello" he can provide the cars but at "Virgin Money". I could not find anything less than Euro 60,000 for a LHD 64RS Carpet ... dare I say with the current crunch LHD is closing on RHD prices. There seems to be a rarity of 64RS in Europe, a lot more Replicas or "Optik Cars" in the classifieds.

I would think, Macua, Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zealand/Australia may be worth looking at or keep them and they will return to higher levels with only about 70 RHD cars Worldwide ... just not UK at the moment.
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Des, I would agree

For those familiar with LHD, it probably is a better drive so long as it's a well sorted car (some LHD's can be very heavy whilst others are surprisingly light and feelsome).

I'd say that now could be a very good time to buy a nice RHD car for a little under £50k --- remember that 65k miles is 105k + Km, and I'll bet there are quite a few lower mileage cars around. Condition and history is everything, and if you fall in love with the car, there are only 70 of them and many many more prospective purchasers in RHD countries ...

Arguably the very best traditional narrow bodied 911 --- ever. IMHO.

Try using a 2.7 RS ....




 
The one that was advertised at Hairpin for £65k is no longer listed on their website - presumably sold?
 
Cars are still selling, sorry for being slow updating my site. Black 993 RS is sold, 1 of the Red 964 is sold, I sold a Yellow wide body beastie without going on my site and a Polar Silver car sold without even needing to go on my site. I have other customers looking. I don't advertise in the mags much these days as quite a bit of business is done through word of mouth and internet.

However the discussion here around the LHD v RHD market is spot on. Lots of cars are back off to europe with the current rates. I've never found the RHD market that strong for me, even in better times, and buying and selling into the markets suggested for RHD is made very difficult with the duties. For example bringing a car in to the UK from outside the EU attracts a 10% import duty and then the VAT on top of that. The compound effect of this at the 17.5% rate means you eventually pay a 30% premium on top of what you paid for the car.
 
ChrisW hit on an important point and that is the difference between a good car and a bad one is chalk and cheese and should be reflected in the price. IMO, once you get over 35-40,000 miles, you see a dip in value unless it has had a lot of the right kind of work done. take my car, which is now at about 65,000 miles. It has had all new suspension including arms, shocks, springs, evry bush etc., drive shafts and cv joints, rebuilt lsd, new disks, pads, brake lines, new clutch, all seals replaced so as not to drop any oil at all. The underside has now been restored so you can eat yourdinner off it and all the tinwork underneath has been redone with new nuts and bolts. Th car looks and drives like new. I would rather buy a car like that than a 35,000 mile example that has simply had regular maintainance. IMO, the difference in price between a good car and an average one isn't big enough to justify buying the cheaper one. To do what has been done on my car is to spend in the region of £20,000.
 
Yes, Des, I know, and I will have to put up with that. However, down here they know that in a country that drives on the left, a rhd car is a far better bet than a lhd one. So much so, the government doesn't want anybody to be disappointed by the lhd experience so they ban them from the road[:D]
 
[:mad:] Foolish government! 5 mins in a LHD car is all it takes to get used to it ( for a total novice that is!). It must really restrict the sports car market over there Simon...unless you have a thing for all that Japanese crap![&:].
 
ORIGINAL: 65 mat

[:mad:] Foolish government! 5 mins in a LHD car is all it takes to get used to it ( for a total novice that is!). It must really restrict the sports car market over there Simon...unless you have a thing for all that Japanese crap![&:].
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Many sportscars are silly money over here, which is great if you own one and not so good if you don't! However, it's not due to the LHD/RHD situation but more to do with taxes, and now the weakness of the currency. For instance, the cheapest new 911 (a standard Carrera with no extras) is £90,000!! However, the good thing is that a RHD 964RS is worth £75-80,000. I suspect that you might even get more for one but there are so few (either 3 or 4) and only one has changed hands in the last 2 years, it is hard to know the value. A dealer offered me over £70,000 some time ago and based on his mark ups, I guess he was going to price it at over £85,000. I joked to my wife that i should put it on the market for £100,000 but I am slightly afraid somebody might buy it. Hopefully, the financial meltdown will stop this stupidity and I will have no incentive to sell the car for years to come[;)]
 
ORIGINAL: Jamie Summers

Matt,
Slightly off topic, but I notice your old sausage has reappeared on the market .........

Jamie
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Hang on Jamie, we just ate Matt's old sausage on Saturday night --- tasted great !!

(Thankyou Matt ! really great !!)
 
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