Hagerty Value Update (9/15)
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Hagerty Value Update (9/15)
Hi All,
I saw that Hagerty just updated their values for September. After a big drop-off for all FDs a year ago, the latest valuations really make sense to me - the "Concours" and "Excellent" (conditions 1 and 2) cars saw a nice bounce-back, while the "Good" and "Fair" (conditions 3 and 4) cars remained at the lower pricing.
The thing that I always wonder about with the FD market is that it almost seems that there are 2 different markets: stock (or nearly so) and modified (often extremely so). I'm assuming Hagerty would be dealing with the first category.
Just wanted to share!
Link:
https://www.hagerty.com/valuationtoo...ort?vbe=104497
I saw that Hagerty just updated their values for September. After a big drop-off for all FDs a year ago, the latest valuations really make sense to me - the "Concours" and "Excellent" (conditions 1 and 2) cars saw a nice bounce-back, while the "Good" and "Fair" (conditions 3 and 4) cars remained at the lower pricing.
The thing that I always wonder about with the FD market is that it almost seems that there are 2 different markets: stock (or nearly so) and modified (often extremely so). I'm assuming Hagerty would be dealing with the first category.
Just wanted to share!
Link:
https://www.hagerty.com/valuationtoo...ort?vbe=104497
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**** the 7 my ghia is worth some bank!
https://www.hagerty.com/valuationtoo...port?vbe=87293
Dammit... Apparently I've been spending my money on the wrong car
Edit- PS. I don't know why I even care, it's not like I'm getting rid of either one of them. Ever
https://www.hagerty.com/valuationtoo...port?vbe=87293
Dammit... Apparently I've been spending my money on the wrong car
Edit- PS. I don't know why I even care, it's not like I'm getting rid of either one of them. Ever
Last edited by Montego; 09-13-15 at 04:59 PM.
#5
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**** the 7 my ghia is worth some bank!
https://www.hagerty.com/valuationtoo...port?vbe=87293
Dammit... Apparently I've been spending my money on the wrong car
Edit- PS. I don't know why I even care, it's not like I'm getting rid of either one of them. Ever
https://www.hagerty.com/valuationtoo...port?vbe=87293
Dammit... Apparently I've been spending my money on the wrong car
Edit- PS. I don't know why I even care, it's not like I'm getting rid of either one of them. Ever
#6
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So far the record stands at $235k:
VW Bus sells for a groovy $235,000 - Dec. 5, 2014
#7
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Hagerty won't insure your car if you use it as a daily driver.
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Interesting to observe Mazda Cosmo made a wild climb last year according to Hagerty
https://www.hagerty.com/valuationtoo...port?vbe=24346
https://www.hagerty.com/valuationtoo...port?vbe=24346
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Ha! I love your comment that the Ghia is worth "some bank". You kill me. I grew up with close family friends having a 21 window micro and spent a lot of time in it at around 14-16 years old. I have a montage of pictures going down my stairs at home with a picture of me in 1964 in my high school varsity jacket in that microbus, so I think of them often and fondly. My first car was a 54 VW bug with no muffler. Zoom, zoom, it was not. Love the Ghia convertibles and boy have the prices gone up.
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Even still, its nice to know that the car is worth 4-5 times my purchase price. Another nutty thing is that back in the day I also bought genuine Porsche Fuchs with tires at a vw swapmeet for $500 bucks and now they are worth $3000-4000. Didn't see that coming either
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My observation is that many of the things that are relatively inexpensive, say, $1000-2500, but interesting, will appreciate far faster than many things that are already at higher absolute prices. That is, its easier to see gains from $1000-to-5000, than it is to see a $5000 thing move to $25,000. The former happens a lot and the latter less so.
The Ghia is a really neat little car and its nice and funky. Kind of the unspoken Cayman/Boxter of the day even though I think they overlapped a bit with the 914. Btw, what does it weigh? Maybe under 2000 pounds or right at that?
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The Ghia is a really neat little car and its nice and funky. Kind of the unspoken Cayman/Boxter of the day even though I think they overlapped a bit with the 914. Btw, what does it weigh? Maybe under 2000 pounds or right at that?
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As a reference here are two old pics of my car, before and after:
I repainted the car to a VW silver, got the porsche wheels, dropped it, removed the side trim and turn signals.
Now I am gearing up to redo it again. In the plan is a complete redo. New floor pans, repaint to green, reinstall side trim and turn signals, attain the bumper guards that came stock, change the top and interior to tan and put on some white walls to go with the porsche wheels. Basically I'm going with the cal-resto look.
Sort of like this but in olive green with a tan top and porsche wheels:
Last edited by Montego; 09-21-15 at 02:33 PM.
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Another interesting graph by Hagerty and somewhat related to us rx7 community too:
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-vid...ws%209-23-2015
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-vid...ws%209-23-2015
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Ah, but the Corvair flat six IS carburated. Jst not air-cooled. The Corvairs are another really overlooked cool car that is roughly of the same era as the Ghia. I had a freiend with a 64 Corvair Monza Spyder. It had a claimed 150 hp out of 145 inches. The 1966 Corsa model had 180 hp out of 220 inches. They weighed about 2500 pounds. The motors were cool, because they were turbo-charged -- in fact the first turbo-charged cars of the modern era beating out BMW's 2002 or Porsche's 930 --used some nice material, like chrome steel crankshafts.
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Believe it or not I'm kinda partial to the putt, putt that the VW engine makes. Mine is a completely stock 1500 with a whopping 50 Hp so I've been really contemplating upping it to a 1776 (70-100 hp) or quite possibly a 1915 (85-130hp). That should give me plenty of umph without the heachaches of being overly modified.
I liked covairs in college, very cool cars to say the least. I sort of remember that there was a particular model that had drama attached to it. I forget what it was tho
Last edited by Montego; 09-24-15 at 12:21 PM.
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Just bumping this thread bc I had an interesting thought after a conversation with a buddy who has an RHD imported car (Nissan Cefiro). In about 3 years the 25 year rule will apply to the first batch of RHD FDs from all over, making them eligible for importation and legal registration here in the states. Anyone thinks it'll have any affect on the market of the current FDs in the states?
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here is a blast from the past for you, a 1954 VW bug:
when I was in high school an older friend of mine had a slammed 59'. Candy apple red, chromed out engine. Really nice car. It really looked like a 54 but honestly I do not enough about bugs to tell what the differences were between the 59 and the 54
Just bumping this thread bc I had an interesting thought after a conversation with a buddy who has an RHD imported car (Nissan Cefiro). In about 3 years the 25 year rule will apply to the first batch of RHD FDs from all over, making them eligible for importation and legal registration here in the states. Anyone thinks it'll have any affect on the market of the current FDs in the states?
If you are interested here is a read where it was discussed 2 months ago:
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generati...ening-1086852/
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Last edited by Montego; 09-25-15 at 04:19 PM.