Classic Cars May edition.

[SteveyP]

Anyone see the Brightwells' auction price for a 'genuinely nice' 11,500 miler DeLorean on page 22 of Classic Cars. It reached £29K. Seems a little high to me - or is that where we are now?

Anyone know of this car? Was there anything special about it that helped bump the price up to this level? If ever I have to sell mine I shall track this auctioneer down, LOL - worth his wait in gold.

Steve

[TheOriginalMrP]

Hi Steve... if its the most recent brightwells auction then I can verify the starting price was £23,500 so if thats anything to go by then its probably right.

I have a good friend who was at the auction who told me the exterior was up together but with the X in the hood.... getting a more common thing these days but my X has never bothered me.

'The interior however wasnt as "sharp" as it could be...' That was the words of my friend and he was comparing it to my car... I did however point out to him that my car is a late car with the lighter grey as opposed to the earlier cars and the lighter grey can be more forgiving.

So in sumnary I think yes, prices are still on the rise!

Ben

[Chris Williams]

Mmm, auctions though are a fickle thing. I think it last year one was sold at the Duxford sale for (I think 27k) only 300 miles on the clock, promptly started being offered for sale around the 40k mark but never sold as far as I know.
Chris

[SteveyP]

Thanks guys

Useful info their chaps. As I suspected sounds like a couple of bods got a bit carried away with this one then (the adrenalin of auctions I guess). Although the starting price was pretty close in the first place in my opinion.

40K for a left hooker (even with just 300 miles)! Not surprised it didn't sell.

Cheers
Steve

[Guinney1971]

discussion about the car here after I saw it in Classic Car Weekly:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater