DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Early RHD 912 - potentially sensible money?
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"We should worry less about what makes others happy and just concentrate on what makes ourselves happy imho" Yes, you're absolutely right of course. I suppose what I was getting at was the implicit idea that owning a 'collection' of cars must inevitably be the ultimate dream of all car en...

The "would make a handsome addition to any collection" cliche that CC uses all the time is an odd kind of snobbery. It implies that almost everyone naturally has a 'collection' of cars, not just some cars or, heaven forbid, a car. Enthusiasts may own multiple cars, but I tend to think that...

Yes, agree. I think the online auction model works well for specific types of car, seller and buyer...but it's by no means an ideal platform for most car sales (and I don't think CC aim to be). It'll be interesting to see how the the market.co.uk develops now that Bonhams have acquired it. I think t...

It didn't sell although I didn't see what it was bid to. When I looked about 10 mins before the end it looked like it was going bid to 40 ish. I decided that even though my car isn't likely to be back in action this summer, it would just be too complicated to buy a stand in as it were. Also at earl...

Dunno. It’s a while ago but as far as I recall the history is unknown. As the images show, I sold it for £17k , at that time that decent reps were £40k+. I’d say half there price of a good one is still where it wants to be. If you can get it for £35k it’s a good bit of fun. If it goes beyond £40k y...

Had the honour of driving it to Hedingham and back a few years ago...regrettably the back of the sofa yields nothing useful.

Might contemplate an Exige or Evora, or maybe something older. Had a pax ride in a carb'd 308 which was nice.Graham If I was in the market for a 308, I'd be all over the dry sump carburettor car James May is selling....... https://www.tfcgb.com/used-cars/6886072-ferrari-308-gtb-carburettor/ That de...

Sam, Darren, Dusty M - you may all be right (I very much hope you are), and my pessimism may be unfounded. It's certainly true that, as AI takes over many jobs, large numbers of people will have more leisure time to fill. Let's hope more choose to fill it by tinkering with rusty old cars that with f...

Nostalgia will never go away, but the things people are nostalgic about will always change. Whilst cars have resonated for many generations, I think they're - quite suddenly - not going to any more. The transition to a digital society has been fast and dramatic - so the change in the next generation...

As someone suggested to me the other day, it may be that toys are important to understand this trend. In the 50's and 60's kids (boys mainly) played with Meccano. So they grew up with an interest in engineering and now like tinkering with old cars. In the 70's they had Lego - so they developed an in...

I think the issue is bigger even than that. A few classic cars will continue to be regarded as works of art (with values to match) but generally, old cars are rapidly becoming entirely uninteresting to the next generations and most will soon become valueless. The things we find interesting about the...

So finally, after much debate and some considerable sense of regret, the Peril is now for sale, via Alan at Canford Classics, in the interests of funding the next project. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this thread and we hope the Peril will find a good new home. http://i1376.photobu...

A brief update on The Peril. Having said we were going to sell it....we can't quite contemplate that just yet as...well, we can't really bear the idea. So in the meantime, taking advice from here and elsewhere we got the wheels done properly by Alan at Canford. Thanks for the advice. A few pics foll...

Happy New Year to all. The Peril has been on the road, in the brief minutes when it hasn't been raining in Somerset, and it's all that we'd hoped it would be. http://i1376.photobucket.com/albums/ah4/Gustosomerset/Porsche%20911T/IMG_2028_zpsugnca35f.jpg However, having started this thread just as we ...