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Familiar 914/6 for sale

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1826315





Regards
Mike

Would it be this one?

And it cost WC £30K to take the green bits off it............................now selling at £95K is that a typo?

http://www.ddk-online.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=72407

Wow! Nice markup......................

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James spent a lot of time, effort & money building it - it's a fabulous car ...

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Agreed! I’ve seen it at CLM 2023 and a good deal at £65k when he sold it"……
£ 95k seems like a huge markup for WC?
C

Keep looking at it when I'm there. It is gorgeous. It was underpriced before, that's for sure. Any dealer is going to start high and work down - plus you get a pretty comprehensive warranty...

Well that certainly stings!

If there is one saving grace: he didn’t remove the Chris Turner sticker (one of the run I had printed, to raise money for the DDK charity thread, after Chris passed)

Lovely car. He’s a dealer but that’s punchy!

Did he buy direct from you James or has it been sold on?

Sold it to a private buyer in September for the DDK sale price, and he's sold it on, tout de suite.

I’m not looking at that ad again: I get a lump in my throat.

95k is a lot. Although TBH you'd probably have to spend near to that now in order to get to the same spec.

KS wrote:Keep looking at it when I'm there. It is gorgeous. It was underpriced before, that's for sure. Any dealer is going to start high and work down - plus you get a pretty comprehensive warranty...

That was the bit that made me chuckle.

914 "rarely seen in the UK' ??

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There is making a profit, which is reasonable, and then taking the pi?? ......................£95k is the latter

That could be a little harsh as we have no idea how much James’ private seller moved it on for - I suspect he did not make a loss

All that said, it is a gorgeous car with all the right bits. Try and find another.

Seems a long time ago we picked it up from Southampton docks James!


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Yes, factoring in a transaction since the private seller bought it, business costs, VAT, pre and warranty it probably stacks up well and as you say is a hell of car with the right bits

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I don't see a problem - presumably the seller was happy with the price he/she got & sellers are free to ask what price they want.

Dealers have to take risks regarding how long the cars they buy will take to sell - witness my old '72 911E which ended up for sale (many years after I sold it to Brian Burrows) at Williams Crawford & which for some inexplicable reason remained on their 'books' for a looooong time ...

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I made what I needed at the time, and now have a completed house renovation project that I achieved with a little(!) less cash flow stress.

I hope the car finds a new owner who enjoys the car as much as I did, and reports on that journey here on DDK!