I have been trying to sell my 4/4 for over a year with no success. I have spent £7K with Tim Ayres on upgrading the car and am advertising it for pretty much what I paid, but the only interest is the usual timewasters who don't think before they email you. I suspect the classic car market has changed significantly and irreversibly - money is not as cheap, and you can get 5% in a bank, so why chance it on an old car? Those who do seem more interested in old Fords. My main interest is pre-war cars - the market for those is absolutely dead. I have attended several shows already this year and have been struck by the almost total absence of pre-war stuff - lots of 70s Fords, quite a lot of hotrod type stuff, but little else. The Double 12 at Brooklands, which used to be a highlight, was only saved by the appearance of the Lagonda Club who turned up with about 30 of the most beautiful pre-war cars I have ever seen. Apart from them it was very thin.
I know anything will sell if it is cheap enough, but I don't desperately need to sell, so I guess it will stay in the garage for a while longer. The irony is that I have used it more in the year I have owned it than pretty much any other of my cars in the past decade. Perhaps that's telling me something.
