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Title: If Only ... Post by: daverwd on October 23, 2013, 08:28:34 PM (http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc408/daverwd/2013-10-23211624_zpsfba5d461.jpg)
If only we could have seen into the future ... this price in 2001 Title: Re: If Only ... Post by: kev131 on October 23, 2013, 08:57:13 PM Absolutely - Great car and value - Sounds well sorted - From the description of the handling I'm reminded of my passenger ride in Simon's Abarth at the Nurburgring this year. :)
Title: Re: If Only ... Post by: Fiat 131 Abarth#2 on October 24, 2013, 07:44:17 AM i think the problem is, to have the money at that right time! :(
i see the Lancia Stratos price on 1978 the last car would be sale for ca. 40.000.- DM :-X and now up to 400.000.- Euro, but who have 40000.- DM at that time? ??? i had it not! i was 16 years old and i have only 400.- DM to buy an used motorbike! :D Title: Re: If Only ... Post by: simon131 on October 29, 2013, 07:27:22 PM I bought mine in 2004 for similar money to this - but it's costs me a few quid since, as all old cars do. 8) I didn't have the cash at the time - had to get a bank loan, but it's been paid off for a few years now so the car is mine ;D
I can't say I had any foresight - the 131 Abarth was simply a car I wanted own and enjoy - so I bought it when I could. The fact that the values of these cars has gone mad is just a lucky (for me at least) fluke. Title: Re: If Only ... Post by: mirafiori76 on October 29, 2013, 09:22:56 PM I got mine back in 2001. The Euro was only one day in the running... I bought the Stradale for 20.000 Euro's. Which was 43.000 Gulden (Guilders) one day before.
When i was forced to sell it in 2007 i got 36.000 Euro's. :o In 1999 i got my group 4 car. It was just the shell. Paid 5.000 for it. It's about 90 % finished. Untill now i spend about 30.000 euro's on it. When i think about it, this is a lot of money. Even though spend in about 14 years. When it's finished it's worth somewhere between 140.000 and 150.000... Title: Re: If Only ... Post by: daverwd on October 29, 2013, 11:36:01 PM your lucky guys if you bought your abarth cars a few years back ...
the ?12,500 car in the add was offered to me 3 times over the space of three months .. at the time the most I could raise was ?10,000 & it just wasn't enough to tempt the owner & she slipped by & was sold some months later .. wonder who ever bought it ? |