I'm lucky in that I bought mine for pennies. Fact is I wouldn't have been able to afford it otherwise. I've done a fair amount of work on it to make it usable and I don't want to sell. Better for all of us if they remain affordable and ordinary folk like me can do them up in the garage. That's what classic cars are all about.
wouldn't mind the arse falling out of the T5 market so I can have one for my daily and still keep my bay!
The numbers of them will start dropping over the next few years. A number of places (down here anyway) have stopped, or are stopping, restoring them, due to the crap quality of aftermarket parts, and the scarcity of a lot of genuine parts now. They'll all happily take on splits and T3's but aren't interested in bays. The values of good ones will start creeping up again then, and the values of projects will plummet I'd imagine.
I'm gonna hang on to the landy forever and keep the t5 for my major camping trips and winter camping, gonna sell the Devon but it's not gonna go for peanuts as it's a great conversion with everything you need and has has a good recent resto plus I'm lucky in the way I don't desperately need the money.
I wanted to do a lifted tintop with big tyres project but as busses have been so expensive it's not an option to mess around with a useless toy. We bought this bus for £300 of the original Owner. Only gave it a wax and polish;-)
Yep, seat tubs, front arches etc etc. It was him who said that 3 local places won't touch them any more.
It does- has all tables, 2 buddy seats, wierd headrest thingy, spared tyre cover all the bits and bobs. We recovered the cushions as they were knackered.
There's a lovely 61 consul on car & classic Still has factory plastic covers on seats 19000 miles quite a rare find For 12k Crazy When you compare that to prices quoted for these vans now They don't want that they want welded and ponned up Volkswagens And wanna pay £££££££ I had 2 mot failures given to me once I Took The ashtray a gearbox and a windscreen off them and gave them to the scrap man
I suspect that bay prices have simply paused in their inexorable rise to unaffordable, but here's a tip for you folk dabbling in investing in 'classic' cars. Buy a shed full of Ford Ka mk1 while you still can. It's the very last Ford designed to rot away before your very eyes and in a year or two, they will be rarer than Rocking Horse dumpy and then OMG OSF SceneTaxChaos will be applied & you'll not get one for love nor money. I have a brace, but the fair wife laughed so hard that she nearly bust her farting strings when I bought the last one - I don't think she'll let me buy more.