lord13 wrote:we never had this trouble when viva's were £50, or 'free to a good home'
Seriously though, this is what happens when values go up, it was the same way way back when i was a member of the S.E.O.C., I used to get given 1600 ghia's for pennies, i even bought a mkII RS 2000 for £100, nose cone and everything.
Then the values started to go up and the market was flooded with fakes and dodgy deals. . . well i won't go into it too much, but it's all very well finally owning a car that's worth something, but it brings the chancers out of the woodwork, and your £2k viva is suddenly worth £4k on a dealer forecourt, a dealer that can afford to have it sitting around at that price because there will always be someone with more money than sense willing to pay that price. So when you supposedly, realistically, price your viva at around the £2k mark the vultures swoop in to make a quick, or not so quick, buck. Unfortunately, that it turn ups the prices in the minds of the private seller, so then the viva will be up for around £4k privately ( we have seen evidence of this, a certain 4 door HB on the bay maybe? ) which in turn gets bought by a dealer who will hopefully, in his greedy eyes, will shift it on for £6k, and then we get into escort territory, and your boggo HB deluxe is soon worth £10k, and out of the reach of many a car enthusiast, especially new young drivers and the marque following will die, only being the plaything of the rich middle class. Thus killing the classic saloon car scene for younger people, the life blood of the classic world i would say.
oops i didn't mean to go on....
Just as the Escort was the car of the people, the poorer choice of classic, so was the viva, now escorts have passed into the upper echelon of classic car ownership, and out of reach of the common man, so the humble viva will also, and there lies the death of the scene, as the cars will become fewer as more and more are broken for spares to make a quick buck, or average examples are moved on for inflated prices that are out of reach, and they become trailer queens or garaged relics. The cars should be used, abused and loved for what they are, basic saloon tin boxes for the common man....
oh i dunno
it just gets me down when people make money hand over fist fleecing anyone and everyone they can.
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