AM Vantage depreciation

[Phil H]

Just to bring a little perspective to the debate:



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[Ewan]

Yes asking prices so yes you are right as who knows what they sell for.

Normally pretty close.
Try calling a dealer with a car for sale at £100k and offering, say, £90k and see if you get lucky. More often than not, it’ll be a no.

 

[outrun]

The person I sold it to didn’t keep it long! Any idea why he sold it on so quickly? It looked stunning in that colour...

Dunno. He had a 90s ghibli II for 8 years before. He said he wants an AM v8 Vantage. The new owner is a well known member but not a big poster or attention seeker so I don’t know if he will reveal all or keep it quiet.
We went to see it and I genuinely thought it was one of the nicest examples I’ve ever seen. Needs some minor bits and pieces only and has everything needed to become the best of the best. Credit to you for looking after it and think. If the member hadn’t gone for it, I might had been tempted!!

 

[rivarama]

Normally pretty close.
Try calling a dealer with a car for sale at £100k and offering, say, £90k and see if you get lucky. More often than not, it’ll be a no.

I know what I paid my 550 vs asking and that was clearly more than 10% off...
Couple of friends bought sports car over the past 3 months and they got more than 10% off vs asking

 

[Doctor Houx]

Good plan to keep it.
I know someone who bought a DB5 in 1973 for about 5k. I think he still has it. Kerching!

Bought my DB4GT in 1986 for £8k and thought I would never come to terms with spending what was close to my annual salary at the time on a 25 year old car needing work, but there was something about it and AM’s motorsport history from that period that hooked me in, plus rarity. Over 30 years later it’s worth 10x more than I have ever earned in a year.

Rare AM’s are the ones to go for. With the newer cars, V12V, last gen manual DBS and in particular the gen 1 Vanquish as last hand made NP car in small numbers are the DB4/5/6 of 20 years time.

 

[Guy]

Bought my DB4GT in 1986 for £8k and thought I would never come to terms with spending what was close to my annual salary at the time on a 25 year old car needing work, but there was something about it and AM’s motorsport history from that period that hooked me in, plus rarity. Over 30 years later it’s worth 10x more than I have ever earned in a year.

Rare AM’s are the ones to go for. With the newer cars, V12V, last gen manual DBS and in particular the gen 1 Vanquish as last hand made NP car in small numbers are the DB4/5/6 of 20 years time.View attachment 79318

The amazing thing here is not your good fortune to pick a winner, but to have not sold it over the years! How many folk would have thought of selling up when it absurdly passed 100k! Shame you couldn't buy lottery tickets in '86. You would surely have won!
I declined the offer to buy a 1 owner DB6 in '87 for 10k. Had I bought it I would have sold it when it was worth 25k and congratulated myself....