Anyone still doubt that 300s are going up in price?

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Anyone still doubt that 300s are going up in price?

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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=004

Good lord, this is basically just an ordinary tidy 340, except for only having 13,800 miles on the clock. Megabucks!
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I think it's a reflection of the rarity of the very best examples.

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Post by pistonpen paultje »

You can look at it this way:

It's a practicly new car, for a véry small price, and véry cheap to maintain. It's just an older model.
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I must admit, I thought that the £500 start was hopeful, but if the car is as clean as is made out, fair play. Lets hope we see it coming out to a few shows, and hope it hasn't gone to a rallier or drifter!
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Post by Ricatron »

i love my volvo but that is a rediculas price.
i would expect that to be better than perfect for that price.

well is it time to sell up and make a TIDY profit?
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Post by SteveP »

Ricatron wrote:i love my volvo but that is a rediculas price.
Is it really? Imagine a Mk2 Golf with that kind of mileage.... that would reach a hell of a lot more than 1k, and be a far inferior car imo...
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Post by Chris_C »

Thats the first one I've seen for a long long time that has cost more than I paid for any of my 300's (after I realised I bought my first one 7 years ago... basically the equiv of buying an S plate car now...)

It was tidy, but no matter how low the mileage, surely all the bushes would still be perished, whereas one thats had most changed, but a heck of a lot more mileage could end up feeling a lot tighter! Still, it does look sweet.
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Post by retrocool73 »

1K is not a lot considering the mileage etc, it may well have gone to someone who was tempted by the condition or a relative having one etc, as opposed to a 300 nut, and in that respect it represents a snip - a cheap car to ice away, use in fine weather etc that will stay that way and still be worth a grand in 5 years time at least.
Same colour as my recentyly-accrued one-owner GL (though of course that needs tidying!) and the same colour as a 1.7 GL I have seen locally a few times that appears to be mint and a one-owner biddy-mobile (F203 AAT, I must stick a card on the screen next time :shock: )
Makes my new black 360GLT appear a bargain though I am intending to mint it.
Don't forget I've recently spent over £1500 doing up my grandad's old 1.4! :roll:
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Post by SteveP »

Cheeky pricing really - that didn't sell for £500 on ebay... and sold for £400 with no MOT not long ago, when it only needed an exhaust. Lovely car though!
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Chris_C wrote:I must admit, I thought that the £500 start was hopeful, but if the car is as clean as is made out, fair play. Lets hope we see it coming out to a few shows, and hope it hasn't gone to a rallier or drifter!
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Come on, you can't have something that clean on a rally ;) Coming from me... who throws his car down rutted muddy gravelly roads/fields/footpaths (oooooops, thought it was a white...) clean cars should stay minty!
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'89(F) 340 GL F7R (ex B172k) - Fake -> SBKV 300 Runner Up 08, 12; '91(H) 340 GL B14.4E - Kar; '88(F) 360 GLT B200E - Jet -> BKV 300 Runner Up 09; '89(G) 360 GLT B200E - Beast
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Post by sven360 »

A clean shell should hopefully be a strong shell-by that reasoning I'd say it would be ideal.

I await all comments eagerly.
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Post by foggyjames »

My rather rusty 360 shell has next to no flex in it...

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Post by sven360 »

Measured how???
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