Who has paid the most for their bus on tlb and what do you think they fetch now

£3250 to buy it (73 devon)
£4800 restoring the body and engine

Still needs paint and interior sorting at I reckon another £1000+

Mot'd taxed and insured, when finished I reckon id get between 10-12k on the right day

 

i bought mine for £3000, spent around the £4000 mark so far on a variety of random stuff.

I have no interior and no paint/body work as of yet :/

i think mine will cost total of £13,000-£14,000 max to get it finished to a very high standard

and when its done i would hope that it would be worth at least £15,000 even though im not going to sell.

well.. one can hope.. haha

 

so surely if a brazialian bus sells for 30k new surely the old ones must be worth more done right?

 

People only pay silly money to dealers.

 

I think the brazz ones are overpriced from the beginning. On a side note,,the most a bay is sold for up here, is my m8s 1977. it sold for 10500.
Bays in uk sells for, in our eyes, silly money

 

I paid £7500 for a bus not to long ago,I no every owner after me a think the last time it sold was £18500

 

from what I've seen so far, I've possibly paid the most... £10k

But the guy I bought it from had spent around £18k including the initial price of the van... only down side it I'm now sorting the body which he just had a blow over respray done as opposed to sorting it properly!!

But I don't look at it financially as I do enjoy fettling it

 

Paid £6700 just in from USA solid, MoT'd and road ready, spent another £2k on suspension and interior,, so £8700
Probably a £9-10k bus so just about right

 

paid £500 for mine ,with years of love and attention,everything is Totally original ,apart from the front and back axle ,engine, wheels ,gearbox ,driveshafts ,steering box ,petrol tank ,sills etc....

It is probably worth £600..... ;D

 

it doesnt matter how much it cost or what is worth it is the the pleasure trying ta sleep in um ;D and shut the door quiet so ya dont wake the miserable gits up ;D and knowing your fuel taxes are going to help other countries. I can remember my dad saying na i dont want that 3 bed house for four hundred quid what do i want that for. My friend could av bowt 4 houses for what he paid for his e type in the early seventies :, and he wrote it off n bought a stingray : ???

 

its best not to keep adding up what they have cost.

we paid 7000 euros in 2007 for ours and spent god knows what on it..................took a deposit it on it last year for 18k...then bottled out as we could'nt face doing another one. The engine is out at the mo for a 3k rebuild : plus twin 40's

but the things we've done in it and places we've been its priceless

 

Think it depends on where in the UK you are. I was chatting to a young lad from Brighton who is in Newcastle as a student. His bus was a bit of a shed, shipyard welding everywhere, bad bubbling paint, sick runner with electrical problems and a DIY interior. He told me he paid 8.5K for it in the Sarf and drove it to Newcastle in a four stage journey. He'd probably lost 2k by driving it north. Suppose there is a market for everything. I notice that poor examples sell for about 5 to 8k whilst good, properly restored ones sell for under 15k. Theres a world of difference between them but I wonder if the ceiling is based on how much actual cash people can get thier hands on.