Re: [DML] Re: Blue Book Value

[mike.griese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

You may have a nice car after all of those modifications,
but it is not a "DeLorean".

The collector car market appreciates originality above 
all else.  This is why original Shelby Cobras are worth
more than continuation Cobras, why Mustangs restored
with documented New Old Stock parts (with correct
date codes no less) are worth more than cars that
have been resto-modded (restored with modifications
like modern drive trains, updated electricals, etc.), and
why Corvettes restored to NCRS standards (wavy
body panels, "correct" overspray, numbers matching
engines included) are worth more than overrestored
cars.  Pick any marque, from brass era to golden age,
prewar, postwar, sports cars or racing cars, documented
originality is the standard.  To make a DeLorean that 
you describe worth more than an original car will take 
much more effort than just changing the DeLorean 
Concours judges manual.  

> A otherwise perfect car that has not won the Concours 
> is worth less than an identical one that has.... 
> simply because some self-appointed authority said so. 
> IMHO, the entire concept of that is unfair, and 
> flawed. 

That is exactly the way the rest of the world works.  
And the people who have the big money to buy 
collectable cars want it that way so they have an
objective measure of what they are buying.

--
Mike


-------------- Original message from Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxxxxxxx>: -------------- 


> 
> 
> I have made many suggestions in the past, and they 
> have been ignored.. Which is not a big deal. 
> 





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