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Mar 24, 2014 9:47 am
Mar 24, 2014 9:47 am
Subject: Re: Rare 1939 V12 Coupe, Hooper Bodywork for sale at NEC 12/13th April
Hi,
You are absolutely correct.
A nice and interesting saloon but stupid estimate! (let us hope the reserve is far below) (I would say 40k GB top whack)
The Rapide spec engine will add interest to the car but as the only real difference is the extra set of carbs it would hardly be worth any extra other than adding to what is already an interesting car. For sure no one would pay extra for this if all they wanted to do was to turn it into a Le Mans special. no more than 1500 pounds extra anyway.
Being a short chassis though and having the four carbs etc does make it rather a fun saloon. What a shame it would cost in excess of 250.000 euros to do a good restoration on it.
Let us pray it stays a saloon, but I would rather see it on the road in any form than scrapped or broken up.
I would love to own this car but would be dead before I finished it and I'm still young...ish
Julian
Hi,
You are absolutely correct.
A nice and interesting saloon but stupid estimate! (let us hope the reserve is far below) (I would say 40k GB top whack)
The Rapide spec engine will add interest to the car but as the only real difference is the extra set of carbs it would hardly be worth any extra other than adding to what is already an interesting car. For sure no one would pay extra for this if all they wanted to do was to turn it into a Le Mans special. no more than 1500 pounds extra anyway.
Being a short chassis though and having the four carbs etc does make it rather a fun saloon. What a shame it would cost in excess of 250.000 euros to do a good restoration on it.
Let us pray it stays a saloon, but I would rather see it on the road in any form than scrapped or broken up.
I would love to own this car but would be dead before I finished it and I'm still young...ish
Julian