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Model specific boards => Golf mk1 => Topic started by: The Mighty Elvi on 27 March 2012, 14:37

Title: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 27 March 2012, 14:37
Saw a write up on this car in my FREE Octane mag that I got last week.

Did you get yours?

http://www.barons-auctions.com/details.php?ID=5576

£7-8K!  Really?

Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: SoundillusioN on 27 March 2012, 14:51
Saw a write up on this car in my FREE Octane mag that I got last week.

Did you get yours?

http://www.barons-auctions.com/details.php?ID=5576

£7-8K!  Really?


No, didn't get mine, must of missed your post about freebie mag.

Yes they're serious..  This is the second series 2 (non campaign) that I have seen recently at an Auction with that guide price.  Quite incredible really for a car that has 116k on the clock and isn't even the most desirable version.   Best get myself some wolfsburg mudflaps, radio cassette player and a respray fast!
Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: SoundillusioN on 27 March 2012, 16:19
Reminds me of this:

http://www.buyyourcar.co.uk/classic-car/volkswagen/golf/wdl_retro-sports--4x4-co-_1599036

I call it THE MK1 that never sells.  It has been for sale in every classifieds place you can think of at some point and has continued doing this for years now.   The only thing that changes is the price.... It keeps going up! First time I clocked it a few years ago it was going for around 7-8k.  Now it's at 11k!

It was specially made for someone famous, can't remember who and they've stopped mentioning it in the ads now.
Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: hydro187 on 27 March 2012, 20:13
stupid price if someone tried to sell me a car with a cassette tape player in it with no power steering for £11K it best be a rolls or 60's muscle car like the general lee
Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: Wayne on 27 March 2012, 20:45
I think that mk1 will fetch over £5k crazy as it may seem.
Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: SoundillusioN on 27 March 2012, 21:13
I think that mk1 will fetch over £5k crazy as it may seem.

Of course it wil, even I would pay that if I could.  Just think 8 is taking the piddle a little.
Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: Wayne on 27 March 2012, 21:46
I think that mk1 will fetch over £5k crazy as it may seem.

Of course it wil, even I would pay that if I could.  Just think 8 is taking the piddle a little.

£8k is taking the piddle but they are heading the way of big money, don't think it will be long and you may even see £8k to £10k for a mint campaign
Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: SoundillusioN on 27 March 2012, 22:16
I think that mk1 will fetch over £5k crazy as it may seem.

Of course it wil, even I would pay that if I could.  Just think 8 is taking the piddle a little.

£8k is taking the piddle but they are heading the way of big money, don't think it will be long and you may even see £8k to £10k for a mint campaign

Already seen the odd Campaign for that kind of money... Its big posh auction houses or collectors that manage to tempt the right buyers that are willing to spend.

This thing isn't even a Campaign.
Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: litlekris on 28 March 2012, 21:14
the car has more optional extras than a campaign..  the campaign is overated, as all it is is a regular mk1 golf with 4 or 5 optional extras made as standard. IMO a car bought 1 week before the sales promotion started with the same extras is the same car. 

8k is a lot, there was a mint black mk1 with about 40k on it and very rarely driven out of the garage it lived in that went for 4.5k about 3 years ago.
Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: JamesW on 28 March 2012, 22:05
That one in the 1st link has been on eBay for months & months at around that price.
Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: craig180 on 30 March 2012, 15:31
Anything 80's flavoured seems to be appreciating in value now. Just look at the Ford scene with thinks like the S2 Escort RST and XR3s etc

Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: Snoopy on 14 April 2012, 08:29
I know of two fully restored mk1 campaigns that have fetched more than this guide price, both had ~100K miles on them.
Finding ones that someone has not pissed about with is getting harder and harder.

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The car has won many Concours awards in the last two seasons during the vendors ownership.
Thats why it has a guide price of 7-8K
Title: Re: Guide price: £7000-£8000
Post by: thai-wronghorse on 14 April 2012, 13:39
The black one is very clean but not clean enough to warrant that kinda money imo, plus what's with the sh!tty Halfords tailpipe? And the white is just an ugly overrated piece of crap hence it's never sold. I wouldn't even pay £995 for that let alone £10,995!!!