half a car at cost of average jensen

[schumijoe]

what do you reckon on this
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Joe

[Steve Payne]

Madness!

Steve

[Martin R]

Maybe the buyer already has the front half & roof of the same model?........

[Per]

Whether the roof and clamshell bonnet is crashed corroded or missing hardly matters? If the restored car is worth it why not pay less for that partial car with a full identity than much more for somthing requiring replacement of the same parts. I would worry more about the missing engine.

[Denis]

I guess, the V5 and identity is worth 95% from the selling price.

DB5 cost much more than reproducing one from scratch.

[VFK44]

Guilty conscience, Joe??!

[Jens]

Every morning a stupid git wakes up and buys ... Quelque chose comme ca

[Mickris]

I reckon they bought it to make into a trailer to match their Aston so they can pose down at the local tip when they take the garden rubbish on a Sunday morning

[Steve Prince]

I guess, the V5 and identity is worth 95% from the selling price.

DB5 cost much more than reproducing one from scratch.

Denis is 100% correct. The value is in the identity and documentation.

Almost all of the significant Aston Martin restored cars that sell for high prices are completely re-bodied. If this was part, and papers, of a DB5 it would be a bargain.

Perhaps, in the future this may be of value, if only for historical rather than aesthetic reasons.

[Ramdog]

The value is in the identity and documentation

A bit like those Spitfire 'restorations' which start with a bit of bulkhead and a data plate...

[Denis]

Same with the such marques like Horch, Mercedes 540k and some others. You dont need even identity sometimes.

Gonna to Ukraine or Russia, buy unknown rust bucket with soviet time documents, where in the chapter "mark and model" is only "Mercedes" or "Horch" without index. Then build your Mercedes 540k or Horch 950 and register it.

This is faked Ferrary, spotted in the Düsseldorf Meilenwerke classic car dealership. Mention - emblem is covered with yellow paper and Ferrary badge sticker on the wing is removed.

[Torquemada]

I reckon they bought it to make into a trailer to match their Aston so they can pose down at the local tip when they take the garden rubbish on a Sunday morning

I was just thinking the same, great minds eh, but then again we are both from Yorkshire

[timmo]

Madness!

Steve

Whats the first sign of Madness?









Suggs walking down your garden path............

[Torquemada]

Madness!

Steve

Whats the first sign of Madness?









Suggs walking down your garden path............

Very good

[DaveAK]

If Porsche is more your thing you could go for this one fo $57,000:

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