For sale on Gumtree - They are getting up there

[axistr]

Not sure where they get their pricing from. I know its hard to price some vehicles in this ever rapidly changing car environment world, but I laughed when that green HQ van was offered for sale around the $200,000 price tag. Obviously the owner of that one had the last laugh. Never under estimate the over agar cashed up buyer.

[pj350]

$80K is a decent investment so wanting to come and have a look and make sure it is "exactly" what you want is reasonable I think.

I sold 2 other genuine Sandmans in the last 6 years for what was really good money back then, one in particular was a fantastic car (side bar - who knew they would sky rocket) and I always found that the people who came to see you were 9 times out of 10 genuine and no test pilots.

The texters and phone callers on withheld numbers with diagnoses of various stages of cancer not so genuine.

Just my experience.

In my experience there is only one genuine buyer ...
And that's the one that comes all cashed up ..no ...oh I just got to talk to the misses ...oh but I've come up 20 short I've got to see if I can get it from my cashed up perants. ..
In my opinion if they want the car know the price get the funds organised other wise go waste someone else's time.

[Jimbo]

Guys I sold my first restored hz sandman van in 2011 Windsor blue metallic 253 4 speed matching numbers nice van for forty grand. I got the itch to build another in 2014 tracked down another in need of a resto Panama green same running gear matching numbers driveline had it for three years but had a couple of collectors hassle me to sell at the time I wasn’t interested but they came back with an 80 grand offer I couldn’t refuse. You just have to wait for the right person to pop up it’ll happen just have to be patient

[Valencia]

Not sure where they get their pricing from. I know its hard to price some vehicles in this ever rapidly changing car environment world, but I laughed when that green HQ van was offered for sale around the $200,000 price tag. Obviously the owner of that one had the last laugh. Never under estimate the over agar cashed up buyer.

Lenny it sold for 160k afaik
Ive been offered 25K for my bucket of bolts

[axistr]

Lenny it sold for 160k afaik
Ive been offered 25K for my bucket of bolts

What was the green vans original asking price.?

Yep the prices seem to be all over the place.
If only I keep my sandman van, sandman Ute, A9X hatch, Brock commodore. Hindsight is a real bitch.

[Valencia]

Yes mate it was 160K he was asking
Yes Lenny sold all my muscle cars years ago to cheap apart from my GTR Torana i sold 2 years ago

[HJ_Blue_Van]

In my experience there is only one genuine buyer ...
And that's the one that comes all cashed up ..no ...oh I just got to talk to the misses ...oh but I've come up 20 short I've got to see if I can get it from my cashed up perants. ..
In my opinion if they want the car know the price get the funds organised other wise go waste someone else's time.

Interesting. So I am assuming, I could be wrong, what you are saying is that if people don't just fork over $80K at the first visit in 10 minutes they are time wasters? They can't have a couple of looks?

I sold cars for a living and I have sold my own muscle cars and that's the dance, people come look, I qualify them, are they pretenders that have never owned a decent car, are they know all dreamers that know every nut and bolt that make up a car but will never actually own one, are they just enthusiasts that want to have a look as they have been building one for 10 years and or are they people that have serious money and the reason they have it is because they choose carefully.

Cheers

[pj350]

Interesting. So I am assuming, I could be wrong, what you are saying is that if people don't just fork over $80K at the first visit in 10 minutes they are time wasters? They can't have a couple of looks?

I sold cars for a living and I have sold my own muscle cars and that's the dance, people come look, I qualify them, are they pretenders that have never owned a decent car, are they know all dreamers that know every nut and bolt that make up a car but will never actually own one, are they just enthusiasts that want to have a look as they have been building one for 10 years and or are they people that have serious money and the reason they have it is because they choose carefully.

Cheers

I to have sold car's ( privately ) .. Two that have good memories of sale...
lx slr 5000 ...and a hq two door monaro gts both sold with out the fellas physically looking at them. ..very good next to no effort great people sales. ..
I'm past doing the tango and the public relations with the ( 9 out of 10 ) serious buyer's and still have what I'm trying to sell.

Cheers.

[Valencia]

Most of my cars sold word of mouth to many dreamers out there for me to deal with
I have even bought 2 cars unseen from the east and glad i bought them

[wbute]

If you get $80000 for a Sandman, it is probably the worst investment in history really. I doubt they have really held their original value if you factor in inflation. I don’t know what you would have paid for a top of the line V8 Commodore ute last year, but I don’t think it would have been that much less than 80K. When you factor in that about 95% of the 80K in the Sandman went to the restoration.