Nice Laguna Blue on eBay

svxistentialist · #1 01-20-2007, 07:15 AM

Anybody see this?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MakeTrack=true

Looks nice. The description reads like it is from a dealer. He says it can be bought straight for £3k.

Looks optimistic, considering Carl's really nice red UK model with leather and all the goodies did not make £2.5k

It has the gray interior with the cheaper seats like Phil's and Belha's green one. So I am guessing it is the S40 11 version.

He makes out like the BBS rims were fitted aftermarket, but they were probably standard or fitted as an option, they are the same as the S4 rims.

I must say the Laguna Blue colour is lovely, and very rare, and the condition looks nice. It will be surprising if he gets more than £2.5k with recent eBay history, but who knows?

Joe

svxistentialist · #2 01-21-2007, 03:14 PM

Anybody checking out this car, pay particular attention to the colour as to originality.

It looks like a Laguna Blue. Laguna Blue is called Blue Mica in Japan. It was only available on S3 cars in '94-'95. The code for this paint is #389.

The problem is, this paint should be all over the car. This particular version, S3, did not have the black roof and bootlid.

Assuming that this is an S3, it will also have the cheaper rev sensitive power steering, rather than the speed sensitive type on the better spec cars.
[It does look like an S3, it has the blue glass with no sunshade band across the windscreen]

So anybody checking out this car, have a look at the colour code on the aluminium plate on the lhs front suspension turret. It should say 389. If not, then it has had a major respray somewhere along the line.

Joe

svxistentialist · #3 01-26-2007, 04:07 AM

Friday, 11.15 AM.

There are about 4 hours to go, price has reached £2300 with reserve not reached yet.

I am expecting he has set the reserve close to or at £3000, and it won't reach it.

Interesting to watch.

svxistentialist · #4 01-26-2007, 11:09 AM

Bidding ended at £2300. Reserve not met.

I am too modest and have too much integrity to say "I told you so"

Maybe the car is worth more than the bids went up to. Without seeing the condition up close it is hard to say.

It is a very nice colour in the photos, and the wheel rims look to be in smashing condition.

There does not seem to be too many out there cash in hand looking to buy our SVXs, now does there?

Joe

Maineman1963 · #5 01-26-2007, 12:17 PM

Joe hi, suspect you are right not too many SVX buyers out there ! Watched several on Ebay over last year and never seem to reach beyond £2500. I was very tempted to add a JDM Silver/black one which was sold by a guy in Solihull, close to me. Condition was very good etc, mileage lowish and he struggled to even get just over £2k. He had bought it for his brother who was back in the UK and suspect he paid £4k 12 mths earlier ! Doesn't seem any likelihood of values picking up... our 94M 96k miles probably wouldn't make £2k. Not worth selling , worth more to us to keep and cherish ! David

svxistentialist · #6 01-26-2007, 05:19 PM

Well David, I'm glad to hear you are keeping, not selling.

Darren has told me he knows of people getting high figures for SVXs, and he is in the business. I don't doubt his word. In my opinion, they are actually worth much more than they are generally making, particularly on eBay.

It would be better to park them up, and wait till they start to get scarce, or at least become attractive to the market.

I'm keeping mine at any rate