Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:50:05 PST
Reply-To: Steve Coseo <vanagonlover@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Steve Coseo <vanagonlover@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Tristar Prices (couldnt agree more.. what the market will
bear it shall)
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Lets see-
Supermarine Spitfire, with original Merlin, gunsight, a good spar..
lets see, rarer than a Hawker, or a D model Stang.. 1 mil?
Now if you want whacky valuations, try a Bungalow in the City of Seattle.
-steve
91 Sinky Westy. 75 k miles (SA wheels etcetera etcetera)
90 Sinky Westy 80 k miles and (just SOLD! to the guy with 25k from Alaska
who got a SWEET ride and I even changed the skylight and the stickers)
90 Multivan
91 Mulitvan
87 parts..
and a dog who sheds.
blahblah
>From: pensioner <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
>Reply-To: pensioner <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Tristar Prices FWIW
>Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:08:03 -0800
>
>Sheesh, TriStars are cheap. In 1958 Porsche stopped making the speedster.
>A nicely crafted but quite crude by modern standards "sports car". No
>roll-up windows, bumpy ride, poor visibility, no crash protection.
>Expensive to maintain. Price one today.
>
>I seem to recall vwmaster owning one of these trucks, tristar not
>speedster.
>
>You could buy a refurb Unimog, rides worse than the tristar, verrrry noisy.
>Fully refurb ~20K for a 1968. Or a Series II 109 Landrover, fully restored
>1966, guess...
>
>It's a market thing. If it's "too expensive" for you don't buy it. Rare
>has value for some. Check out the going prices on NRA VG Leica
>IIIGs...shocking, and doesn't even have a light meter.
>
>Howabout a vintage Breitling Montbrilliant Navitimer. Does 5000USD come to
>mind for a watch you gotta wind every 40 hours.
>
>Now how much am I offered for a Hewlett Packard TOP OF THE LINE laptop,
>only
>three years old. Cost new
>3500USD, would 300USD be too much, yep too much.
>
>Price a fully restored 1967 Westie. You get the picture.
>
>In Sonoma county there's a Spitfire for sale, not a Triumph Spitfire a
>Supermarine Spitfire...wanna guess?
>
>Or maybe a totally useless on the street 250LM Ferrrari...no four wheel
>drive, no radio, no ac, no sunroof, lousy gas mileage on super premium.
>wanna guess... check out hemmings motor news or the dupont registry to see
>what rare cars sell for. boggles ...
>
>Orvis flyrod, made of old brittle bamboo, wouldn't dare fish it... does
>1500USD for a non fishing fishing rod get to ya. Waaay outa my reach.
>
>A zippy neat syncro westie will bring a kings ransom in California. An
>unrestored HD XR750 brought 25000USD in Japan.
>
>If you need a toy, price a Dessault "Paris Jet" and don't forget to dial in
>the maintenance and fuel costs. This is a sixties two place sports plane
>makes any wooden sailboat look cheap.
>
>Does a share of some interesting company that hasn't yet shipped a product
>and has to date no earnings bring 75USD, you betcha. If they go teats up
>next week or loose the next level of capitalization ...
>
>De gustibus non disputandum est...
>
>Boies for US Atty General.
>
>pensioner
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