Crystal Ball - Older cobras and pricing

[leroy17]

For what its worth and this is just my thoughts and certainly not there to offend anyone, but I agree with above and that a good car is a good car.

Not keeping stock of all sales but in the last 12 months I seem to recall 2 or 3 Robnells and at least 3 Harrisons which were all good cars being sold in a realitive quick time. The key point on these I feel is the quality of the car.

The quality of build appears to have improved remarkably over the years and certainly even the 're-build' of cars has turned out some stunning examples (a certain orange Summernats winner comes to mind).

As with many I am sure we see the cars on carsales and some which are there month after month and some even year after year. Generally buyers expectations are higher and what was acceptable 10 years ago in reality may only be average now. Buyers know this however sellers may be somewhat blind and led by what they have 'invested' in the car.

For a buyer, there has to be a pashion to drop $50K on a cobra, and it is hard not to compare what else you can buy for $50K. For example an 2006 Audi RS4, 300+kw, AWD, full leather, less that 80K klms and a pure remarkable car with an original price of around $160K+ can be had for the same coin. Chalk and cheese... yep... no question, however it really puts into perspective that a Cobra should be of a certain level of build, fit, finish for the value to stack up.

These purchases are emotional purchases and not rational (regardless on how much we convince outselves that we must have that new $XXXX part).

Local manufacturing has certainly lifted the bar a long way, in reality the 2nd hand market has to meet buyer expectations.

Just my thoughts.