White 3500 for sale on Ebay?

[chrisw]

It's been sold. Someone on the facebook group bought it.

I certainly think that it's worth the price, and it shouldn't take more than a couple of grand to finish it off. Prices are going up. The £300 cars that we bought a decade ago no longer exist, and I think that's a good thing for the P6 world.

 

[PeterZRH]

Given it just cost me half of what that car cost just to put in a ZF gearbox, I'd say it is worth the money, if genuinely good. Not everyone is handy with a spanner and it only takes one major issue to make an average car more expensive than buying a good car.

This is of course why we need prices to rise. I can sink a few grand into my car every so often because I write off that money as funding my hobby. I don't smoke, have no interest in the latest iphone, don't drive a posh modern car nor own a set of carbon-fibre golf clubs. To be as good as a £6-7k car, I'll likely need to spend £12-14k over time. But it runs well and keeps me happy in the meantime plus I get the knowledge that I save one more example.

Many others can only do that with one eye on what can be recovered if they sold on and that's a problem with a car like the P6. Many better examples seem to take forever to sell. I know of a 2200TC which has no welding and drives like new for £5k which has been for sale for nearly 3 years. It might be the best, unrestored example in existence. Certainly in LHD form. But no V8 is no sale in the European market.

If I were to do this again, I'd buy the best, non-customized (not necessarily completely original as I see no reason to build back in the limitations of the time for a car which is used) car money can buy, even if it were 5 figures. Let's face it these cars should at the top end fetch £15k given what some desperately ordinary and crudely engineered Fords make.

It's cheaper in the long run.

 

[GRTV8]

Given it just cost me half of what that car cost just to put in a ZF gearbox, I'd say it is worth the money, if genuinely good. Not everyone is handy with a spanner and it only takes one major issue to make an average car more expensive than buying a good car.

This is of course why we need prices to rise. I can sink a few grand into my car every so often because I write off that money as funding my hobby. I don't smoke, have no interest in the latest iphone, don't drive a posh modern car nor own a set of carbon-fibre golf clubs. To be as good as a £6-7k car, I'll likely need to spend £12-14k over time. But it runs well and keeps me happy in the meantime plus I get the knowledge that I save one more example.

Many others can only do that with one eye on what can be recovered if they sold on and that's a problem with a car like the P6. Many better examples seem to take forever to sell. I know of a 2200TC which has no welding and drives like new for £5k which has been for sale for nearly 3 years. It might be the best, unrestored example in existence. Certainly in LHD form. But no V8 is no sale in the European market.

If I were to do this again, I'd buy the best, non-customized (not necessarily completely original as I see no reason to build back in the limitations of the time for a car which is used) car money can buy, even if it were 5 figures. Let's face it these cars should at the top end fetch £15k given what some desperately ordinary and crudely engineered Fords make.

It's cheaper in the long run.

Totally agree with you Peter ZRH
For what you get in a P6 c/f any other mass produced soulless car of the 60's 70's . The P6 prices are ridiculously low.
Ive just spotted a 1600e Cortina on a local webpage down here for $13,000NZ. Its still soulless with a swish paint job.
In the same vein , a very good P6 would not get half that , yet the P6 was a vastly superior car. Just hasn't got a "Ford" badge on it.

 

[Riddler]

Given it just cost me half of what that car cost just to put in a ZF gearbox, I'd say it is worth the money, if genuinely good. Not everyone is handy with a spanner and it only takes one major issue to make an average car more expensive than buying a good car.

This is of course why we need prices to rise. I can sink a few grand into my car every so often because I write off that money as funding my hobby. I don't smoke, have no interest in the latest iphone, don't drive a posh modern car nor own a set of carbon-fibre golf clubs. To be as good as a £6-7k car, I'll likely need to spend £12-14k over time. But it runs well and keeps me happy in the meantime plus I get the knowledge that I save one more example.

Many others can only do that with one eye on what can be recovered if they sold on and that's a problem with a car like the P6. Many better examples seem to take forever to sell. I know of a 2200TC which has no welding and drives like new for £5k which has been for sale for nearly 3 years. It might be the best, unrestored example in existence. Certainly in LHD form. But no V8 is no sale in the European market.

If I were to do this again, I'd buy the best, non-customized (not necessarily completely original as I see no reason to build back in the limitations of the time for a car which is used) car money can buy, even if it were 5 figures. Let's face it these cars should at the top end fetch £15k given what some desperately ordinary and crudely engineered Fords make.

It's cheaper in the long run.

Very well said, that man. Agree with every word. Keep on enjoying your car (I am sure you will).

 

[cbv8]

Given it just cost me half of what that car cost just to put in a ZF gearbox, I'd say it is worth the money, if genuinely good. Not everyone is handy with a spanner and it only takes one major issue to make an average car more expensive than buying a good car.

This is of course why we need prices to rise. I can sink a few grand into my car every so often because I write off that money as funding my hobby. I don't smoke, have no interest in the latest iphone, don't drive a posh modern car nor own a set of carbon-fibre golf clubs. To be as good as a £6-7k car, I'll likely need to spend £12-14k over time. But it runs well and keeps me happy in the meantime plus I get the knowledge that I save one more example.

Many others can only do that with one eye on what can be recovered if they sold on and that's a problem with a car like the P6. Many better examples seem to take forever to sell. I know of a 2200TC which has no welding and drives like new for £5k which has been for sale for nearly 3 years. It might be the best, unrestored example in existence. Certainly in LHD form. But no V8 is no sale in the European market.

If I were to do this again, I'd buy the best, non-customized (not necessarily completely original as I see no reason to build back in the limitations of the time for a car which is used) car money can buy, even if it were 5 figures. Let's face it these cars should at the top end fetch £15k given what some desperately ordinary and crudely engineered Fords make.

It's cheaper in the long run.

WOW £3K to put in a ZF they must have seen you coming it cost me more like £1k and that is including the box and bits how and where could you sink a few grand into a P6 is beyond me unless of course it was a wrecker to start with and actually spending £12-£14k over time on a P6 what do park it on a Pier!! I go back to my first post yes it looked a nice car but in MY personal opinion that car was not worth the £6.5k asking price not with the faults that could obviously be seen and what could also possibly lie beneath?? I do agree that the P6 is an unduly underrated car as compared to the Fords but know doubt the P6 prices in future will be on par or even more when people actually realise how modern well built and before it's time the P6 actually was....

 

[PeterZRH]

Well, when you don't have a garage and local labour is £110 an hour... When you need engineering that will stand up to much stricter rules on modified cars.... When you have a transmission rebuilt to an excellent standard (Andy's box is a bargain considering all the new components in it)....