Sold my low mileage immaculate one with every possible cosmetic, performance and reliability upgrade possible (every interior plastic bit replaced with aluminium, adjustable suspension, stainless sports exhaust, bigger radiator, carbon fibre plenum etc. etc.) in 2005 for £12k to buy my first brand new Boxster S. Guess what happened next. They started appreciating......
I'm gonna rub salt in the wound..it's a bit longwinded, completely off topic but reminds me of the golden days of TVR and depreciation free motoring
In February 1992 got the first used Griff 4ltr to come on the market at 4 weeks old (the guy had been on the list for 2 years but was then going bust so had to get rid).I paid £23,000 for a car that was going at least 2K over the list price of 25 grand. Two years later in July 1994 I put a deposit down to have my new Griffith 500 delivered on my 30th birthday in January 1995. On the same day as paying the deposit for the 500 I also put a £1000 deposit down as a punt on the newly announced Cerbera due in late 1995!! A month before delivery of the 500 I sold the original Griff for....£25250, a gain of £2000 for 2.5 years of ownership. I kept the 500 for two years( cost ( £30,750) sold it for £27,500 in late 1996 and took delivery of the Cerb in March 1997....The nice bit being that the RRP of the Cerb had gone up twice to £37,500 and mine was fixed at £31,500!!!Kept the Cerb for three years and sold it for £28,000 in 2000 to take delivery of a new Tuscan
So in 8 years of ownership over 3 TVR's with a retail value of roughly £93,000 I lost less than £5000 in depreciation....those were the days!
Unfortunately the new Tuscan was an utter pile of ( insert expletive) and fell apart around me and within 9 months I'd sold it and dumped 7 grand....