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Post by noddy on May 28, 2019 8:49:33 GMT
Hi, Just spotted this for sale .... Restored 1.5 Looks pretty good - but has the wrong interior and the front wings don't appear to fit very well. However - the finish looks excellent, a very good job done. Price .... £19,500  I know there have been some good prices for 1.5s achieved recently ... but .... this is double what a very good restored one recently fetched! Looks like I'm going to need a bigger piggy bank! Roger |
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Post by deltalimamike on May 28, 2019 9:23:07 GMT
Mine still looks worse than their "before" picture!
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Post by canuck on May 29, 2019 18:12:03 GMT
Wow! That is a nice looking car but attention to OE details should be adhered to for this sort of price. no? The chrome is very nicely done and I expect costly. That interior looks nice, and probably costly but far from original patterns. Roger spotted the ill fitting wings  Under bonnet; Control box terminals are wrong, I wonder where the AC air filter went?, the windscreen motor is different and I wonder if the vacuum bits are functional, (not visible) for the windscreen washer. Crankcase breather? All these could have easily been incorporated for originality. Appears to be converted to negative earth? But I still like this car .........................  It will be interesting to see what this car sells £ for. B PS: Roger is in the registry? |
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Post by noddy on May 30, 2019 5:34:14 GMT
Bruce,
You are right - for any car to get top, top dollar it has to be completely to original spec. Any change from originality or correct finish will diminish the price.
The car is already in the register.
Roger
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Post by rileyrob on May 30, 2019 9:07:20 GMT
I saw this car at the NEC show a couple of months ago and the owner has thrown loads of money into the restoration but sadly without any real knowledge of these cars. I personally loved the interior which is admittedly non-original but has clearly been done to a very high standard. The dash and cappings are the wrong colour being a very dark wood but the finish was like glass. The bodywork looked straight and strong, the wings are a good fit but someone decided to add a black piping strip between the front panel and the wings for some reason which looks completely wrong and perhaps is why people have commented that the fit is poor. For me it was the details that let it down, the paint colours are non standard just colours that the owner liked, which is his prerogative after all, but the two toning doesn't follow the standard scheme with the boot being blue when it should be white and where the two colours meet along the door tops the divide should be hidden behind the chrome trim strips but they don't which is odd and therefore looks sloppy. The chromework had all being rechromed I believe (no chrome wheel embellishers fitted strangely) and I think the owner had also had the mechanicals overhauled throughout. It's nice that another car has been saved and restored but with just a little more care and thought it could have been so much better. The price is, in my opinion, way way too high but if the style and effort put into the car is just what someone is looking for then who knows. A lovely looking car but definitely not one for the purists.
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Post by canuck on May 31, 2019 18:30:51 GMT
Rob, Thanks for clearing up the 'ill fitting wings' query. I wonder where the piping idea originated?  B |
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