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NOJ391 at Auction
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SHG said:
$400,000 isn't really that far off for this car. It is special, even among 100S cars, which are going to cost $300,000 each for a run-of-the-mill one, to coin a phrase.
The days of nice 100S cars for $150-200,000 are gone (at least for now). I am told that they already have an offer that is not that far off of $400,000 anyway, so why should they change anything?
SHG
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Why should they change? Because their terms probably are scaring off most of the interested buyers, and maybe they'd have an offer of $400k, and then they could get an offer of more! You want the people who are ready, willing and able to buy it to be in the game, not running away!
Dave Richards
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SHG said:
I hope you and Anthony are friends... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
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Keoke said:
Well said.
Hangtown Healey
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>Given the high reserve for Fred Hunter's old 100S, it should be noted
>that there are questions regarding it once being NOJ391. There were
>positive reports that it was raced until wrecked in 1964 at a
>Silverstone meeting while Fred's car was certainly in the states from
>about 1956.
>Now it has also come to light that there is a memo from the Healey
>company listing both NOJ391 and 3804 as apparently separate cars. There
>is another memo dated July 30, 1956 listing NOJ391 and racer 64(3804)
>separately. These memo's are in Bill Emerson's book on pages 120 and
>125.
>that there are questions regarding it once being NOJ391. There were
>positive reports that it was raced until wrecked in 1964 at a
>Silverstone meeting while Fred's car was certainly in the states from
>about 1956.
>Now it has also come to light that there is a memo from the Healey
>company listing both NOJ391 and 3804 as apparently separate cars. There
>is another memo dated July 30, 1956 listing NOJ391 and racer 64(3804)
>separately. These memo's are in Bill Emerson's book on pages 120 and
>125.
Dave Richards
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IMHO, if there is an appropriate car for the Healey Museum, this is it.
It looks as if the 100S values have been moving lately. One just sold here in the USA, offered without public notice, and sold very quickly in 2-3 days at $300K. Antoher sold at Christies in England recently at 200 Pounds Sterling ($400K USD).
Unfortunetly the history of 3804 is a bit clouded and so it is hard to put a value to it. It appears it does not have the history proported by the sellers. If this proves out will the buyer have recourse to his purchasse of a car with a less than expected provenence?! 3804 is certainly a special car, as all 100S cars are. It appears it does have Sebring history. However the rest is very questionable.
So now the marketplace decides what that is really worth. With the value of Jag C and D-Types soaring and the Ferrari and Masser. values climbing, I really don't think the 100S values are all that bad. In fact the car is extremely usable on the track and street and very accepted in events throughout the world. In today's values perhaps it is still a deal at $400K??? I know, I know, that is a far cry from what we all have been used to, and would like to see, however "the world does turn" and "things do change"... sometimes not as we would like
GregJ
Unfortunetly the history of 3804 is a bit clouded and so it is hard to put a value to it. It appears it does not have the history proported by the sellers. If this proves out will the buyer have recourse to his purchasse of a car with a less than expected provenence?! 3804 is certainly a special car, as all 100S cars are. It appears it does have Sebring history. However the rest is very questionable.
So now the marketplace decides what that is really worth. With the value of Jag C and D-Types soaring and the Ferrari and Masser. values climbing, I really don't think the 100S values are all that bad. In fact the car is extremely usable on the track and street and very accepted in events throughout the world. In today's values perhaps it is still a deal at $400K??? I know, I know, that is a far cry from what we all have been used to, and would like to see, however "the world does turn" and "things do change"... sometimes not as we would like
GregJ
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My parents sold a daily driver tri-carb in 1973 for $350.00!!!!!!!