Good UK DMC Wanted

[bozzzydmc]

Good cars are in demand now ..

Prices have been too cheap for too long ..

[A Van]

You can discount the auction car from any sensible valuation!
If you added up the cars which have sold the average figure wouldn't be £25k. Or anywhere near it.
The reason those other two cars haven't sold is they are too expensive!
The only way prices will increase is for them to increase over the pond, which at the moment doesn't look like happening.
But in the future...

[A Van]

It isn't a question of could ' possibly ' import for cheaper its definite.
I have bees assisting with one purchase for £14k taxes paid and its a cracker.

[arranj]

Agreed I think asking £29k for a normal car at the moment is a bit much. But it still shows an example of there being someone willing to pay that sort of price. I'm assuming the buyer didn't pay that just for fun? Someone else would have had to have bid £28.5k at least, so there are at least two of them?!

I didn't say £25k was an average, just that it, or close to it, is a relatively normal asking price at present, given the shortage of running, UK, good, cars - and the higher than "usual" demand. Particularly for manuals it seems. The one that has just sold for £24k is a "normal" car in my opinion. No galvanising or turbocharging, just a good quality standard(ish) car.

Based on these sales and the relative "frenzy" over your old car, it seems clear people are looking for quality UK (manual) cars that actually work - and are willing to pay for that privilege.

Yes you "can" import for cheaper, but you "could" end up spending thousands more that you have budgeted getting it up to "UK standard". It's a gamble in some cases. These cars have trusted UK history.

You'd be confident in what you're doing with a car that may or may not need a couple of things to it - but there are people though who'd rather just have an MOTd car, and they are willing to pay for it.

[A Van]

There isn't always someone willing to pay the price.
A couple of cars which have sold over the circa 20k mark up from the usual circa 17k a few years does not mean a wholesale increase in the values of DeLorean.

It's same in the US when one sells on the Barrett Jackson auctions for £40k USD some say they have finally found the value they should be.

Until you check Dmctalk or EBay Us to find there are still loads for sale at way lower! Even from DMC franchises.

[jerzybondov]

I'm down with Arran on this. A UK car that would have gone for high teens 2/3 years ago is now going for early twenties.

I had a theory when I got mine that demand was going to go up in the next ten years as the generation that grew up watching BTTF entered the 'classic car ownership' stage of life - i.e. 30s. I think we may be starting to see some of that. It's not a perfectly sound economic analysis as obviously the UK supply is not limited (people can import from the US) but there's no reason why that market should not be experiencing the same thing.

[A Van]

Yes Gez, but it doesn't appear to be happening over there.....yet
We aren't talking early twenties here, that counts as circa 20k
It's 25k that's being thrown around

[A Van]

PS
Anyone on Facebook?

There is a page called Deloreansforsale which has regular updates of cars for sale in the US.

[A Van]

Gez if you read my post, I stated that cars circa 17k are now at circa 20k

[A Van]

Agreed I think asking £29k for a normal car at the moment is a bit much. But it still shows an example of there being someone willing to pay that sort of price. I'm assuming the buyer didn't pay that just for fun? Someone else would have had to have bid £28.5k at least, so there are at least two of them?!

I didn't say £25k was an average, just that it, or close to it, is a relatively normal asking price at present, given the shortage of running, UK, good, cars - and the higher than "usual" demand. Particularly for manuals it seems. The one that has just sold for £24k is a "normal" car in my opinion. No galvanising or turbocharging, just a good quality standard(ish) car.

Based on these sales and the relative "frenzy" over your old car, it seems clear people are looking for quality UK (manual) cars that actually work - and are willing to pay for that privilege.

Yes you "can" import for cheaper, but you "could" end up spending thousands more that you have budgeted getting it up to "UK standard". It's a gamble in some cases. These cars have trusted UK history.

You'd be confident in what you're doing with a car that may or may not need a couple of things to it - but there are people though who'd rather just have an MOTd car, and they are willing to pay for it.

If someone needs help in importing or advice, we all offer it here for free that's what we do!