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You've sold the ARP4 Ian?

Yes Graham, my Granddad's super sport ( a real one) appeared so could really let that opportunity pass

I do find it interesting and not unsurprising that actual history and originality can and often do come into conflict with the passage of time..?

Monetising nostalgia...? I suspect from the time that old vehicles attracted investors as opposed to the skinned knuckles and oily finger brigade who`s sense of value was a tad more practical, and perhaps based around everything related to involvement with the machine in any of the many ways possible, that there would ever be those trying to add value, and profit from that process.... "Classic Car salesmen no doubt learned from horse traders of the past or perhaps estate agents, where original this that and the other could be utilised to boost the ever increasing value ...(-:

I still have a sense of value relative to originality up to a point when it comes to old cars, having spent my yoof butchering m/cycles as old as I to make them go faster, it took time, but in time my sense of evaluation altered to some degree, perhaps reading almost all that the classic press spat out had an effect on me...?

Call me old fashioned but my evaluation of In terms of market value/marketing, it seems that the world has gone mad, when all it takes to shift stock /add imagined value, is to stick a couple of anniversary or special edition badges on to a machine and the market will determine forever more that it`s value exceeds that of an identical machine in terms of appearance and road performance as one without the value adding badges which may be in gold as opposed to silver on the lesser model...?

In terms of old cars with a history real, imagined or created, there can be considerable difference in asking price..?

As I have typed previously and in a bid to create a datum, I tend to look to the English High Court action and subsequent judgement in the case of Bentley Old Number One, as can be found like much else Morgan applicable on GoMoG.
It seems there can come to be considerable variation in the description/financial evaluation placed on a machine by the seller and accepted by the purchaser at the time of sale, that if situations alter thereafter, can end up becoming a tad expensive..and where determining "originality" can seem to become rather complex..?

https://www.gomog.com/articles/no1judgement.html

Nice one Ian!
I shall keep an eye out for that one

ianc

In answer to your question regarding the Daimler SP250 engine in XRX; No it does not still have that motor.

I last saw XRX1 at Spa about 9 years ago and it was then running a TR engine, fitted, I believe, by Brett at Brands Hatch Morgans at the request of the present owner. But it did still had the widened engine bay side plates which I handmade in SA in 1974.