Your Opinion on Superperformance Coupe as an Investment?

[Daytona Lee]

Why don't you look at Highland Racing.com Even though the owner is a 1st class asshole, they build some great cars. They give you a 2 yr. warrenty on the motor even if you buy it for racing. I don't know any other company that does that. I'm happy with my coupe.

[rcweingart]

Because some people want roll up windows, heater/aircondonditiong, power steering, power brakes, windshield wipers, finished interior, etc. In other words, a street driveable "finished" automobile instead of a racer/kit car. If one were interested in primarily a track car, then Highland, FFR, Shell Valley and the like are all good options but no-one other than Superformance offers a "finished" street car - one that even has a semblence of pedigree, vis a vis, Peter Brock and Bob Negsted. And, if looking for pedigree of sorts, then a McClusky on a CSX chassis, especially a real roadster chassis.

[torqueboy]

Yes , I know this thread is 16 years old, but because I m new in this forum I had to read the hole coupeforum , beginning at the last site and there is lots of information to fill my brain and I need to learn about my Superformance Coupé.
Ron (rcweingart) , you are right. I drove 15 years a righthand driven RAM Cobra, made in the UK, than 6,5 years a wonderful Challenger SRT8 and now I made my dream real and had the chance to buy one of the rare Superformance Coupes in germany .... we have at maximum 10 of these Superformance Coupes in germany on the road. All of this cars where in germany absolut headturners..
Porsche 911, Audi R8 and AMGs you will see at every corner, but cobras are rare and a coupe is the rare holy grail.
For me two things were important to buy this car, first making my dream real and have a really nice car for fun , second Investment .... because 16 years after starting this thread, the world has totally changed.
All over the world, now you have this Eco freaks, all things have to be green, CO2
is the bad word of the year, Greta Thunberg, every car should be electric ,emission restriction and so on and so on...
They want us to have no more fun with our cars on the street.
So if you buy a new car it has to have Euro 6 Emission.... you will never get that with a roush engine and without catalytic converter.. and it has to be noiseless..
My coupe has 67 Historic Registration, since 2004, this is the only way to get a car like this get legal on the street.. but today , you will never get a new CSX9000 Series with 67 registration on our streets, never !
If I would buy some ... I would have a very very expensive convolut of spare parts in my garage with no chance to get this thing legal on the road.
All this makes the prices getting higher and higher.
And look, since the SPC changed to CSX9000 the price for a new coupe changed to minimum 160-180 k $.
Also SPF Mk3, if you want to buy a good used one in germany , you have to pay
about 100.000 Bucks ( 90.000 Euros).
For my used SPC, I payed 134.000 Bucks ( 120.000 Euros) and that was really cheap. After all Restauration work is done at my Coupé the price normally for this car in germany is
180000 bucks(160.000Euros)
The lady who sold the car to me earned lots more of money , as her dead husband spend in 2009 when bought this used coupe.
And I will never get fewer money for the coupe , as I payed for..
My coupe has 12700 km( 7800miles ) on the odometer...
And now look at the prices for used MK1 in the USA.... they are really not cheap , they are more expensive as when they were new.

Bernd

[rcweingart]

Hi Bernd, Here's what #51 looks like today after heritage mods on display at the Mullin Gallery at the Design Center where Pete Brock attended