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Bob Claffie

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On my way home from a HS baseball game I spotted a Bugeye Sprite in a small used car lot. Sitting in the front row it did look a little forlorn. Located on Rt 20 on the east side of the city of Westfield Ma. Due to the 6 o,clock traffic I did't get much more than a glimpse. It appeared to be creamy/off white color and the top was up .
 
wow, that's not something you see every day - well spotted!
 
Poor little thing! 🐸

Can't imagine there are many Bugeyes on regular used car lots anymore
 
I was in Monterey a couple months ago and saw these on a lot… some way overpriced projects!

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1960 Austin Healey BUGGEYE SPRITE - cars & trucks - by dealer -...

1960 Austin Healey BUGGEYE SPRITE Convertible Ready To Upgrade Your Ride Today? We Make It Fast & Easy! Call (or text) ☏ Dodi Auto Sales 2240 Del Monte ave, Monterey , CA 93940 Copy & Paste...
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1961 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite - cars & trucks - by dealer -...

1961 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite Convertible Ready To Upgrade Your Ride Today? We Make It Fast & Easy! Call (or text) ☏ Dodi Auto Sales 2240 Del Monte ave, Monterey , CA 93940 Copy & Paste...
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And finally the grand finale; A Bugeye that’s not a Bugeye!

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1965 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite - cars & trucks - by dealer -...

1965 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite Convertible Ready To Upgrade Your Ride Today? We Make It Fast & Easy! Call (or text) ☏ Dodi Auto Sales 2240 Del Monte ave, Monterey , CA 93940 Copy & Paste...
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TBH not that overpriced these days especially for a solid shell. :rolleyes2:
 
Gateway cars has three rubber bumper Midgets for sale right now - 2 are $14,500 one is $20,000

restored bugeyes are getting up around 30k

Nor disagreeing that they are expensive but for a rust free shell - given what they are fetching, they will find a buyer.
 
Well that does help me live with the fact that I will have over $6k in mine when done, 1.5 of which was the 5 speed.
 
JPSmit said:
Gateway cars has three rubber bumper Midgets for sale right now - 2 are $14,500 one is $20,000

restored bugeyes are getting up around 30k

Nor disagreeing that they are expensive but for a rust free shell - given what they are fetching, they will find a buyer.
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PT Barnum was right.
 
They may be priced at $14,500 and $20,000 but are they selling for that price?

When I bought my $400.00 Midget someone said "Remember the Midget will never get much over $10,000 so be careful how much you spend on it"

David
 
DavidApp said:
They may be priced at $14,500 and $20,000 but are they selling for that price?


David
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For sure Bugeyes are selling for that money - and while I suspect that square bodied cars will lag in sales - especially rubber bumper - good ones are fetching better money. Just took a quick peak at Bring a Trailer - this spring two rubber bumper cars went for 11k and 15k respectively. Hardly Healey money but, still surprising.
 
JPSmit said:
For sure Bugeyes are selling for that money - and while I suspect that square bodied cars will lag in sales - especially rubber bumper - good ones are fetching better money. Just took a quick peak at Bring a Trailer - this spring two rubber bumper cars went for 11k and 15k respectively. Hardly Healey money but, still surprising.
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BAT seems to attract all kinds of buyers with more money than sense. Just read some of their comments and it's obvious they know little about the cars they are buying. Here is a good example of a car buyer with more money than brains (a Barrett Jackson buyer instead of BAT, but the principle still applies)....

MSN

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What a shame. A fifty-year-old guy buys a nearly $3/4 M supercar, has a suspended license, doesn't insure or tag it and is "unfamiliar" with a manual shift transmission?!?

lordloveaduck....
 
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