DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

My word that makes me a little happier tonight

It's in better nick than this one

http://classicinvest.com/1967-porsche-911s#!prettyPhoto

What's the price of that one Garry.?

Their website wrote:Welcome to Classic Investments. We are unique in the world of classic cars because we specialize in restoring the world’s most famous European automotive marques.

That's not really unique, is it? It's pretty close to being the opposite of unique.

That car looked pretty special to me Garry when I saw it. It looks rough but just about every important rare (read: expensive) piece is present. I heard it was sold and coming to the UK. You don't have any info on that do you? I wondered how a RHD 67S would end up in the US?
The more I looked over the pics the more I thought it was a great starting point.


Sam, it was advertised at $50k and sold very quickly (a few months ago)

Regards
Mike

I don’t Mike, I saved the link as it has bundles of original detail I was using as reference.

I’ve looked at the car mentioned in this thread a few times, the first at the PCGB 50th meeting the year before last. Really nice example with nothing missing, I also remember Alan telling it was one of his first projects.

Surprised to see it for sale, but with car prices seemly rocketing I can understand why

Ok Garry.

I have not seen the car in the flesh but I did notice it has the wrong S bumper trim front and rear in the photos. I would love to look it over but as usual it is just about as far away from me as it gets so it's unlikely to happen. (unless a DDKer buys it).

Regards
Mike

And just when you think you'll have to wait an age for another UK RHD '67S to appear the earliest known car suddenly surfaces and is available through Bonhams' FoS auction next month (lot #301). Comes with a nice tempting reserve of £15-20k, too. Seeing that the barn find T just went for circa £48k what's the guess for this piece of history? Why on earth am I talking up the model of the next car I hope to own? 'Cos I've just had a very large beer in Hessisch and I'm an idiot, probably.

left4dead wrote:And just when you think you'll have to wait an age for another UK RHD '67S to appear the earliest known car suddenly surfaces and is available through Bonhams' FoS auction next month (lot #301). Comes with a nice tempting reserve of £15-20k, too. Seeing that the barn find T just went for circa £48k what's the guess for this piece of history? Why on earth am I talking up the model of the next car I hope to own? 'Cos I've just had a very large beer in Hessisch and I'm an idiot, probably.

No reserve, Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000

Let me predict £60K plus

Warren Buffet - ie the smart money, always says sell when optimism is at its greatest(when its all over the news and the papers), and buy when pessimism is at its greatest(when robert peston is reporting live from barclays). The value of these and other classics are mentioned daily, and more than ever on this and other sites. Maybe its tempting some smart sellers out of the woodwork.

I'll trump your 60K & go 67K

Don't do it Garry. It's a sickness.

Amazingly 2 years ago it probably would have gone for the bottom of the estimate of £15k...if it reached that.

God knows what it will sell for now. These barn finds seem to sell for same price as nice cars!!

Some drunken toff with more money than sense no doubt will bid it up madly lol

It makes you think what Mike & Brendan's prototype would go for now in one of these big high profile auctions????

Amazing how things change in such a short time frame...there must be quite a few people who had 5 or 6 nice cars worth circa £200k only a few years ago that are probably now sitting on 6 figures + !

Madness. But fun.

Nice colour on both those cars If that car sells for £110K I'll have some thinking to do about sending mine back to ol' blighty. Only problem is I'd never be able to afford another one at this rate.

andy

ajwans wrote:
Only problem is I'd never be able to afford another one at this rate.

andy

....and that's the problem for 99% of us!!

But it's what also makes the speculators money...sell high buy low...but will the low ever return and how long will that be?

To a lot of us we may be looking at our car value and mortgages with our 'heads' but hoping our hearts still keep winning!!


I do think we will once again see the gap between LHD and RHD widen once more if it keeps going though.

Lets just enjoy the ride and the miles along the way...