[Tigers] CM Article...Best Rally Cars

Steve Ralsten sralsten111 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 22 15:01:54 MST 2011


Assuming Cobra price at $800K, mine is for sale at 1/4 of Cobra price. Yes
its a fun toy and a special memory from childhood that now lives in my
garage
but everything is also an investment.

Steve

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Peter Laurinaitis <laurin212 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I guess CM is looking at fully restored prices/costs, in which case we are
> talking 75k for a tiger (unless you do the work yourself).  Which would be
> the
> relevant basis for comparing on an apples to apples basis to other cars
> they
> talk about like a 300SL, etc, i doubt anyone buying something at that end
> of
> the spectrum did their own wrenching to restore....
>
>
> On Jan 22, 2011, at 2:43 PM, James Lindner wrote:
>
> > ?Not trying to hijack Peter's string, but speaking of the March 2011
> issue
> of Classic Motorsports...what about the article on Best Vintage Rally Cars?
> They broke down the cars selected into price ranges. The photo on the
> contents
> page sort of gave it away that the Tiger would be selected. I was, however
> pretty suprised when I saw that CM had placed it in the 75K-100K category,
> right along side the E type and XK Jags and up one category from the 63-67
> Corvettes (50-75k).
> >
> > In the words of CM ..."You can currently buy an early Tiger for less than
> 75K, but word has gotten out and prices for this Ford V8 powered roasdster
> are
> starting to rise."
> >
> > I know many would not sell for any price and the value of any car is only
> what someone is willing to pay...but it is always nice to see favorable
> comments about the "value" of the Tiger.
> >
> > Jim Lindner
> > B9470033


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