David, I was right there (except I had a TR4 instead of a Healey) but was
eying the Jags and was almost to the point where I could swing the price,
when the price exploded. As I recall the Healeys jumped some (and TRs
barely) , but it was really high end stuff that really jumped.
I remember looking at a complete but rusty and needing total restoration
early 3000, maybe a 62, that a local guy I know had sold to a Japanese buyer
for about $7,000, it seemed like a lot for a project back then, but maybe
not too different than today.
Greg Lemon
54 BN1
----- Original Message -----
From: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>
To: <scotyp@comcast.net>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Healey Values
> ....Scot, I don't know all of the reasons why BCs jumped in price back
then,
> but I do know it was early-mid eighties when I had an eye on parlaying the
> Healey I had just bought for $5000 into the purchase of an XKE. It seemed
to
> me that with their pedigree, performance, exotic styling and relative
> scarcity, they were going "cheap" at the time. A really nice 6 cyl example
> could be had for $12,000. -No other exoticar could be had anywhere near
the
> price.
> I was just about finished "cleaning up" the Healey for resale, when Car
and
> Driver published a cover story: "The 10 best Investment Cars" --On the
cover,
> and #1 on their list, was the XKE. Overnight, the average XKE jumped up to
> $45,000. Some went as high as $75,000 not long thereafter.
> Needless to say, I still have the (now fully restored) Healey.
> David W. Jones
> '62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
> Cumberland, RI USA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: scotyp@comcast.net
> To: healey list
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 2:33 PM
> Subject: Healey Values
>
>
> Oh Wise Ones,
>
> Looking through some of my Healey records I was revisiting an old
appraisal
> that had been done on my car mid 1990 in Seattle.
>
> It states "This type of automobile will appreciate markedly in the near
> future as they are now classified as a rare collector's vehicle".
>
> This was done before I owned the car and shortly after it had a
"partial
> frame off " restoration.
>
> Given the fact that Healeys have appreciated relatively quickly in the
past
> few years, how many feel they have reattained the level of value they
enjoyed
> in the crazy market of the very early 90's?
>
> I was also curious about what caused that interesting "spike" in the
sports
> car market back then?
>
>
> Scot
> '66 BJ8
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