Pricing coopers

[GingerWizard]

For a rust free mot tested shell how much would people expect to pay for the following.

Cooper/s Mk1

Cooper/s Mk2

Cooper/s Mk3

Min price, so not all the bells and whistles. Just rust free or minor body work required.

Thanks

Gwiz

[guru_1071]

id say roughly

mk1 - prices for a decent solid car thats complete and right will be 8-15 grand, ive seen cars sell for less but normally need massive amounts of body work or have all the right bits missing - i think the price of a good, correct useable mk1 will climb, but think they will peak once they get to 20ish - after that it will have to be something very, very special to sell.

mk2 - probably 5-10, not as popular as mk1s, rarer yes, but no use in proper motorsport so the prices will always be set by people buying them as nice road cars. i think the price of good mk2's wont rise much further than they are now - any more and buyers will 'upgrade' to lotus elans and stuff like that

mk3 - as with mk2's, id say the money is 5-10, they are starting to get more collectable, though i suspect that people who cannot afford mk1's are buying them in the hope they climb higher - quite rare which does help, but so boring looking when standard!!!

obviousy, there will be cars that sell for tons more, but they normally have history, or the buyer is daft!

[Dino42]

guru_1071 said:

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mk2 - probably 5-10, ... but no use in proper motorsport so the prices will always be set by people buying them as nice road cars. ...

Depends what you mean by 'proper motorsport' of course - but mk2 and mk3's are perfectly eligible for historic rallying.

[guru_1071]

dino

sorry, i meant proper pre 67 fia appendix k type stuff - these are the cars that attract the value due to the high profile racing series they can compete in.

[Dino42]

Yes there certainly does seem to be quite a lot of money floating around in that area - certainly more than people here spend on rally Mini's.
Mind you the price, and indeed spec, of some of the stage prepped Escorts would make your eyes water.

[Retro Cooper]

I know of 2 coopers for sale. A Mk1 Morris cooper s (around @8k) and a historic Mk3 cooper s x police car (@10k) they certainly do hold there money. If we knew then what we know now. I certainly would have a garden ful of old coopers )