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[Royalasaforce]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but it's all but becoming a requirement to sell my mini since I now no longer have use of a garage.
Looking online I see rust buckets advertised higher than clean tidy ones.
Now not saying they'll get there asking price but it's made it difficult to gauge what I'd put mine up for.
Anyone good at evaluating? 🤣

[Quinlan minor]

Mini: year, model, condition, tax/MOT status, modifications, pictures?

Then it might be possible to give some kind of meaningful reply.

[Davidmt]

Mines priceless but not worth a lot 🤣

[stuart bowes]

I feel like when we're buying and selling we do have a responsibility to the rest of the mini community (and it's the same for classics in general)

 

if you're selling a rust free good condition car then the minimum you're willing to accept has a knock-on effect for everyone else who wants to sell one of similar type and condition, so really we should all be sticking together and trying to keep that value up

 

on the flip side we should try and steer clear of paying over the odds for a total rust bucket because it makes the restoration process that much more pricey, what's the most you're willing to pay for a car with the arse fallen out of it and endless new panels required.  with some leeway for special models..

 

obviously there's no hard and fast rules or anything but maybe something to bear in mind..  if selling try and wait for good money, if buying be prepared to walk away .. not just for your own benefit for the good of everyone

 

 

that isn't specific to you or directed at anyone in particular, it's just a thought that always occurs to me when the subject comes up

Edited by stuart bowes, 04 March 2024 - 12:37 PM.

[bpirie1000]

Some put their cars up for sale at the extortionate rates to passify their other half that they are at least attempting to sell the car...

When they have no intention of parting with it.

My biggest fear is that when I die, my wife sells my car for what I told her it cost me £££...... (not what it actually cost me.££,£££.)

[Royalasaforce]

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1981 998 over 65k miles but under 70k. Too long to list everything. All done in the last 800 miles. Engine striped and every seal replaced, rewired and brought fuses inside.
12g940 head and pocketed block, Kent 276 cam, wide band sensor, new carpets, fuel pump deleted and electric fitted to switch, hiff 44 and ramair filter with stub stack, csi programmable dizzy, carpeted and sound deadened roof, undersealed, refurbished front calipers, new pads and wheel bearings, 4 new nankangs, new clutch. Duplex and adjustable sprockets (timed 106.5 degrees), lightened crank pulley.
Bad points are the paint is the cellulose which I have the paint so was debating doing it and being clear coat on top, inside is blue ( was hoping to paint that soon. Had it tuned up but since done the head and cam and carb, still runs good at 14:1 and goes to 12:1 under throttle. I know I'm missing loads of work done but that's off the top of my head.

[Royalasaforce]

The silver on the firewall is heat resistant sound deadening