A few I have seen on Ebay...
Discussion
I am not sure if it is the "economic climate" but it does seem there are a lot of interesting things up for sale at the moment. Lots of "spent more than it's worth" type restorations and projects that never got finished... Surely trying to sell anything like this just before Christmas is financial suicide...
An hour or so on ebay bought up the following;
Not sure why but I have a real soft spot for these old Mercedes Pontons.
I am convinced that a good one of these can only be a good idea if you have somewhere to stash it away, (you wouldn't want to drive it!) It's probably an age thing, most of my friends had one of these as a first car. Low mileage Metro
A proper "barn find", 1934 Lanchester
Stunning 1938 Frazer Nash / BMW
An hour or so on ebay bought up the following;
Not sure why but I have a real soft spot for these old Mercedes Pontons.
I am convinced that a good one of these can only be a good idea if you have somewhere to stash it away, (you wouldn't want to drive it!) It's probably an age thing, most of my friends had one of these as a first car. Low mileage Metro
A proper "barn find", 1934 Lanchester
Stunning 1938 Frazer Nash / BMW
austin said:
Not sure why but I have a real soft spot for these old Mercedes Pontons.
I am convinced that a good one of these can only be a good idea if you have somewhere to stash it away, (you wouldn't want to drive it!) It's probably an age thing, most of my friends had one of these as a first car. Low mileage Metro
A proper "barn find", 1934 Lanchester
Stunning 1938 Frazer Nash / BMW
Some final prices...I am convinced that a good one of these can only be a good idea if you have somewhere to stash it away, (you wouldn't want to drive it!) It's probably an age thing, most of my friends had one of these as a first car. Low mileage Metro
A proper "barn find", 1934 Lanchester
Stunning 1938 Frazer Nash / BMW
Mercedes - £1090
Metro - £369 (with 41 bids!)
Lanchester - £1050.99
Frazer Nash / BMW - 0 bids but was on at £45k
Some happy punters out there I guess!
Huntsman said:
curlie467 said:
I love the pagoda tops too. One day maybe.
Me too, my wife wants a Pagoda SL.She also fancies an R107 SL, one day perhaps. We actually looked at getting her one of these a few years ago as an everyday car, before we had kids. You could still find them in the Mercedes main dealers sometimes. We were offered a few one owner, amazing low mileage examples that had been to the dealers twice a year since being bought, in the spring to have the hard tops removed and the car serviced, and then in the autumn to for a service and to have the roof put back on.
Over the next year or so I think some classic cars might soften in price a bit.
Cheapo stuff like moggies, spits, spridgets etc I think will be little change.
Million quid D types etc I think will hold firm.
But there is middle ground, e types, healey's, AC ace, pagodas etc I reckon might take a hit, in which case I'll jump into a 280 Pagoda. Yay!
Cheapo stuff like moggies, spits, spridgets etc I think will be little change.
Million quid D types etc I think will hold firm.
But there is middle ground, e types, healey's, AC ace, pagodas etc I reckon might take a hit, in which case I'll jump into a 280 Pagoda. Yay!
a8hex said:
Huntsman said:
curlie467 said:
I love the pagoda tops too. One day maybe.
Me too, my wife wants a Pagoda SL.She also fancies an R107 SL, one day perhaps. We actually looked at getting her one of these a few years ago as an everyday car, before we had kids. You could still find them in the Mercedes main dealers sometimes. We were offered a few one owner, amazing low mileage examples that had been to the dealers twice a year since being bought, in the spring to have the hard tops removed and the car serviced, and then in the autumn to for a service and to have the roof put back on.
Had to get the TVR bit out of my head before i was 40, owned a griffith now for 6 mths the speed is unreal....unfortunatly the build quality isnt,but hey its so fast it makes your teeth bleed
ps i have two young kids 12 and 8..... so get a 300SL R107 with the extra back seats....
3024E said:
a8hex said:
Huntsman said:
curlie467 said:
I love the pagoda tops too. One day maybe.
Me too, my wife wants a Pagoda SL.She also fancies an R107 SL, one day perhaps. We actually looked at getting her one of these a few years ago as an everyday car, before we had kids. You could still find them in the Mercedes main dealers sometimes. We were offered a few one owner, amazing low mileage examples that had been to the dealers twice a year since being bought, in the spring to have the hard tops removed and the car serviced, and then in the autumn to for a service and to have the roof put back on.
Had to get the TVR bit out of my head before i was 40, owned a griffith now for 6 mths the speed is unreal....unfortunatly the build quality isnt,but hey its so fast it makes your teeth bleed
ps i have two young kids 12 and 8..... so get a 300SL R107 with the extra back seats....
Huntsman said:
Over the next year or so I think some classic cars might soften in price a bit.
Cheapo stuff like moggies, spits, spridgets etc I think will be little change.
Million quid D types etc I think will hold firm.
But there is middle ground, e types, healey's, AC ace, pagodas etc I reckon might take a hit,
I quite agree. The cheap Classics won't change much but as there's a limit to what people will pay for the finished car, there is a danger that if restoration costs rise further, an un-restored "cheapo" car could in theory only have a 'spares' value Cheapo stuff like moggies, spits, spridgets etc I think will be little change.
Million quid D types etc I think will hold firm.
But there is middle ground, e types, healey's, AC ace, pagodas etc I reckon might take a hit,
.The very top end should hold but there will be fewer people chasing them (but it only needs one buyer
).Let's not get into what is top end !!!!!!!!
But as you say, it's the middle ground that I think will take the biggest hit; cars that have had their values inflated by genuine desireability (and/or fashion?), yet are not rare.
Talking of low mileage Mercedes, in 1979 one of my client's bought a new 450SL for his wife's Xmas present. She did 400 miles in it, didn't like it and went back to driving her Vauxhall Shoveit. It then became a stand-off between husband and wife; he wouldn't sell it because it was her's and she didn't want it so there it stayed in the garage, put up on blocks by the gardner/handyman and started once a month. Last I knew in 2003 it was still there with 478 miles on the clock, still awaiting its first service by a Mercedes dealer. Keep your ears to the ground if you live in Northants!
A friend of mine has spent the last 18 months rebuilding a 230 Pagoda.
1965 and not driven for the last 15 years.
He paid £8k and spent about £26 in total on the rebuild.
The respray was done in Belgium at a speciliast restorer, who just happend to have a collctor live near by.
Yep this collector saw the car and offered £65k for it and for the first time in his life my friend had his sensible head on and took the money and ran!
Mind you he still has a 1980 380SL and a 1990 SL500 to sell!
Why? He wants a Bently now!
1965 and not driven for the last 15 years.
He paid £8k and spent about £26 in total on the rebuild.
The respray was done in Belgium at a speciliast restorer, who just happend to have a collctor live near by.
Yep this collector saw the car and offered £65k for it and for the first time in his life my friend had his sensible head on and took the money and ran!
Mind you he still has a 1980 380SL and a 1990 SL500 to sell!
Why? He wants a Bently now!
a8hex said:
3024E said:
a8hex said:
Huntsman said:
curlie467 said:
I love the pagoda tops too. One day maybe.
Me too, my wife wants a Pagoda SL.She also fancies an R107 SL, one day perhaps. We actually looked at getting her one of these a few years ago as an everyday car, before we had kids. You could still find them in the Mercedes main dealers sometimes. We were offered a few one owner, amazing low mileage examples that had been to the dealers twice a year since being bought, in the spring to have the hard tops removed and the car serviced, and then in the autumn to for a service and to have the roof put back on.
Had to get the TVR bit out of my head before i was 40, owned a griffith now for 6 mths the speed is unreal....unfortunatly the build quality isnt,but hey its so fast it makes your teeth bleed
ps i have two young kids 12 and 8..... so get a 300SL R107 with the extra back seats....
They are cheaper than r107's what does that tell you?????????
The best models are the facelift models like the one i had the 300,420 and the 500 after 1986 these later models came out with the same floor pans suspention, brakes, alloy engines and ecu management .....
these were the pre production bench test models/chassis for the r129 which was very very clever of mercedes to trial it 3 years before it came out in the r129 body, you drive a 300sl r107, and it drives exactly the same as the 300sl r129
Nowadays all mercs are expensive 'shi7e' i was seriously warned off buying an ML 4x4 for my wife by a Merc dealer so i bought a Toyota Lancdcruiser
3024E said:
Nowadays all mercs are expensive 'shi7e' i was seriously warned off buying an ML 4x4 for my wife by a Merc dealer so i bought a Toyota Lancdcruiser
Tell me about it 
We have a 2001 E-Class estate.
Hardly had to wash it for the first 5 years, they valeted it every time they had to fix something. It's a good thing it comes with a 30year body guarantee coz it's on its 3rd tail gate has had to have the front wings replaces and the two rear doors re-skinned. Thought they were supposed to be galvanised.
We've had the landcruiser 5 years now also from new, i live on a private dirt road and the yoto's never had paint, or anything come to mention it !!!!!!!! (done 84k miles)
Also hows this..........
With it being 5 yrs old i had the timing belt done by toyota a few Weeks ago at the main dealer using dealer parts inc vat and labour.............???????
£170 ALL IN.
LAST MAIN 80K SERVICE.............£240
My mate bought a new merc 320 E cdi class and did that collection factory tour thingy.....it broke down on the way home.
Also hows this..........
With it being 5 yrs old i had the timing belt done by toyota a few Weeks ago at the main dealer using dealer parts inc vat and labour.............???????
£170 ALL IN.
LAST MAIN 80K SERVICE.............£240
My mate bought a new merc 320 E cdi class and did that collection factory tour thingy.....it broke down on the way home.
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