Mini Pricing these days
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Just been having a general look around at mini prices on ebay/adtrader and locally.

Is it just me or have mini prices went daft? People are wanting £1k for a rusty heap!?

Fair enough, mint minis are 2-3k but even a rolling shell is like 300?!

world gone mad!? just in 2005 i got a near mint cooper s replica for £1400 with brand new 13x7s and freshly recon'd 1275

I put £2000 extra on my agreed value for having to find a suitable donor

knowing my luck ill get me windows put out, all im saying is, theres one in sunderland and one in whitley bay

prices for stuff on ebay have gone daft,was up at minisport the other day, you should see the prices for their cars outside.

133.5 bhp 123 lb torque 116mph @6640rpm 9.5psi
Shakespear RWYB 14.995 91.83mph

It is what is called classic car syndrome.

What happens when a car becomes a classic in all senses (usually when they are no longer available new and tick all the other boxes such as character, fun etc.) is that all the easy restoreations get done so the so-so cars disappear and come back as top notch motors.
The fact that these ex average motors are no longer available then somebody wanting something solid is going to have to look further up the scale than they would of otherwise have done.

This drives the prices up further, normal supply and demand stuff.

Sooner or later (sooner when new shells are available) the really rough ones go to the restorers as they are the only ones out there to use for reshells, which drives their price up ... which pushes the whole market up a rung.

Think of it this way ... when was the last time you saw a ratty MGB? All you see these days are restored ones and scrappers .... Mini's are going to go the same way.

As Peter says, makes spending the money on the ones you have more worthwhile long term.

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

In Malta we are paying a grand sterling for good local cars (no rust, good running gear and fair original condition). Prices for new cars here are 30% higher than the UK so I think we are still getting good value on some classics. A complete scrapper mini here only fetches about 100 sterling and a rough runner needing bodywork about 200. Maybe I should buy a few and put them on ebay. I bought a complete running MG metro (NASP) 4 weeks ago for 150 sterling.

It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt... Then it's hilarious!

if your after cheap minis needing work try a company called BL Transverse. there around the Croydon/south london area

last time i was there, there was around 80 minis in a yard, some being broken and the rest he will sell and all need work. i got my van from him a few years back and his prices are sensible

about 300miles from me mate :(

its great if your going to be selling one soon, and never buying another one!!! (yeah right!)

Mini's are even more expensive over here in the Emerald Isle... there are some prices of over 5000euro/3500gbp for standard early 90's minis, not even clean examples...shocking!! hense me heading to the UK in the last few years to get mine,actually my little brother is collecting his first car (a mini of course) at the weekend in Stoke on Trent, a little 91 mini cooper (clean little car) and a daily driver with a MOT for £800, Even with the exchange rate, flights & boat its cheaper than getting one over here! just have to be well aware of what your getting for your money.
Markie