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Post by Big Blue on Jun 14, 2022 10:27:37 GMT
My old Alpina is up for sale. It’s been overhauled since I had it and a couple of owners since (including the submariner that used it for track days) but I was happy to sell it for £10,750, a £500 drop over a couple or three years. I liked it and still like E39s but no way I’d pay this for it. www.classicheroes.co.uk/alpinab10touringswitchtronic |
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Post by Grampa on Jun 14, 2022 10:36:00 GMT
Says 'page not found' when you click the link
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Post by Big Blue on Jun 14, 2022 10:42:09 GMT
Says 'page not found' when you click the link Should work now. |
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Post by Grampa on Jun 14, 2022 10:56:05 GMT
It does
"Owned by a very close friend of ours at Classic Heroes and fastidious collector. As is his way, the car was delivered to us with his usual simple instruction. It must want for nothing; I want the best. Following an inspection of the car, a program of work was drawn up. This was to take care of any obvious age-related mechanical faults but also fully future proof the car both mechanically and structurally, ensuring total corrosion protection and no nasty surprises going forward. The owner is intolerant of classic car failures and like us, puts this down to poor age-related maintenance. There is far too much to list here but below is a summary of the work carried out to ensure this Alpina fitted in to his collection."
Who was the 'close friend' - you or the person you sold it to? Clearly there's a small fortune been spent, but yes, the asking price does rather narrow the potential buyers. And they've used that awful expression: going forward
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Post by Tim on Jun 14, 2022 12:07:41 GMT
It's only following the price of the M5s, one of those in this sort of condition would probably be £50k.
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Post by PG on Jun 14, 2022 16:06:51 GMT
I don't know why but I thought your Alpina was left hand drive?
Anyway, I'm having a really big brain challenge on this. So the car you sold for £10,750 is now worth nigh on £26k because somebody has spent some money on it? WTAF???
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Post by Martin on Jun 14, 2022 18:07:16 GMT
I don't know why but I thought your Alpina was left hand drive? Anyway, I'm having a really big brain challenge on this. So the car you sold for £10,750 is now worth nigh on £26k because somebody has spent some money on it? WTAF??? Keep the Jag under the protective tarp for a few years, then give it a service, put some new tyres on it….and it will be worth double what it is now! The second Alpina was LHD. |
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 14, 2022 19:30:20 GMT
20 year old car with 70,000 miles on the clock..... the price may seem laughably high but when you look around at the prices of some other stuff that's a few years old, on balance it doesn't seem that outrageous
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Post by Roadrunner on Jun 14, 2022 19:54:26 GMT
20 year old car with 70,000 miles on the clock..... the price may seem laughably high but when you look around at the prices of some other stuff that's a few years old, on balance it doesn't seem that outrageous Absolutely. You could pay considerably more for an Escort Mk2 Mexico. Fun car that it would be the Alpina is in a different universe. |
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Post by Alex on Jun 15, 2022 4:56:18 GMT
Pricing is ambitious, especially as its the I6 not the V8 model which you'd have thought would be the more sought-after one but it has the rarity value of being a touring (all B10s on AT are saloons) so the argument regarding price would be 'well go find another then'. If it sells for that much then fair enough but I don't see it flying out the showroom.
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Post by PetrolEd on Jun 15, 2022 8:53:27 GMT
Price seems ambitious but the dealers Classic Heros which just like Bramley adds 5K onto the price for a start. They only deal in top notch stuff though so I imagine if you paid 25K for it and ran it for 3 years you'd still offload it back to them for near 20K. Kinda cheap motoring for a really interesting car.
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Post by PG on Jun 17, 2022 10:58:33 GMT
I don't know why but I thought your Alpina was left hand drive? Anyway, I'm having a really big brain challenge on this. So the car you sold for £10,750 is now worth nigh on £26k because somebody has spent some money on it? WTAF??? Keep the Jag under the protective tarp for a few years, then give it a service, put some new tyres on it….and it will be worth double what it is now! The second Alpina was LHD.Ah, yes. I'd forgotten there was a forerunner to the Gorilla. |
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