[TR] Holy cow!

[Paul Tegler]

...old adages...   a fool and his money.....      more dollars than 
sense....

A couple decades back.... there was a gentleman on ebay, trying to sell 
a rather well restored roundtail..... for > $110K

beautiful...but you could tell who ever restored it knew nothing about 
Triumphs specifically, as even the bonnet badge was mounted inverted.   
never sold obviously.  6 months later it was posted at $60K... never 
sold... a year later I saw it at a dealership posting (dealer web site) 
at less than $35K ... no idea where it went if at all.

The point is it's worth what someone is willing to pay, regardless of 
what we think of someone spending that kind of money on a Spit.
I've been on both sides of this coin.    ymmv    :-)


ptegler


On 6/26/2025 10:24 AM, Greg Lemon wrote:
> That is crazy, Spitfire record? I have no idea, but never seen one 
> near that price.  As a general aside. There are lots of cars with very 
> nice looking paint, interior, and engine compartments, what seems to 
> make high dollar collectors go crazy is the better than factory 
> perfect and impossibly clean undersides.  I have never understood why 
> the part you normally never see and which you will mess up terribly if 
> you want to drive the car at all can shoot up the value so much.  But 
> then again I wouldn't buy a car just to park and display.
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2025, 8:07 PM Mark Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com> wrote:
>
>     And to think it is a Spitfire that brought in that much money!
>
>     https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1969-triumph-spitfire-16/
>
>     mjb.
>
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