Phase 2 #288 at Mannheim Auctions last week

[catfood12]

This stunner was traded into Poole Mercedes for £26K. Number 288, with just 20K miles, piles of paperwork and original keys, books etc.

I tried to buy it from them for £28K. Their policy is to send all P/Xs to auction, so I traipsed up to Mannehim at Wimbledon to see it make £38.5K at the hammer. Add a £750 odd buyers premium, it was too dear for me.


Oh... Just found out my subscription has expired and I can't upload photos....

 

[Lankan]

Wow! Would have been an absolute bargain had you managed to get [v6plaque]288[/v6plaque] for £28,000.

The hammer price at £38,500 also appears to be the right ballpark.

Pity that the owner didn't get the car valued first, but it seems that [v6plaque]288[/v6plaque] was listed on eBay for £33,395 in July 2015, then reduced to £30K in January 2016 - may be a touch ambitious back then, especially since the seller was willing to accept £26K, but certainly not in June 2017!

 

[v4v6]

Interesting.

 

[GPH]

People do seem to be suffering from auction fever these days. It doesn't sound any different to the lovely one that Thomas has just bought from 4 star classics ( don't know about the service record on the auction car ) which was also 20k miles and titanium yet listed at £32k for 6 months. maybe people these days think they don't want to pay a dealer his profit and think they are always getting a bargain at auction. Obviously that's not always the case but looks like [mention=5443,#000000]v4v6[/mention] did get a bargain .

 

[v4v6]

And if anyone cares, I paid £30,600!

 

[GPH]

Great price. discount will cover the belts change.