Saw this on eBay. Listed as £10k for spares/repair which sounds pretty harsh but I don’t know what these cars go for currently:
One theory is if you do not ask a high price you will never be offered a high price.
On the other hand it could be assumed to be a touch on the high side.
Time will tell!
I guess this is the crashed car referred to here:
Bodge repair though, as it looks like an early slam panel fitted.
Interesting valuation but it would take double that to prise mine away so maybe the asking price is fair
its missing the original oz pluton alloys and the front bumper body kit section, I would imagine there going to be hard to find unless someone looks in my loft.
on another note I see the rear number plate has the dealer name chequered flag, my lemans also had chequered flag dealer plates, is this dealer still around And where did they trade from?
Back in 1964 Chequered Flag were in High Road Chiswick. I bought a 1956 MGA from them for £295…Those were the days
Now wouldn’t a time machine come in handy here? Nip back, buy the entire page, sit back and relax!
Barrie
I would be interested to know the record price paid for a MK1 MX5 and what model.
The Le Mans special edition breached £10k some years ago so my guess would be it still holds pole position.
Mk1s, when new, cost in excess of £15,000
M2s, particularly 1001s, regularly sell for more than £20k in Japan. A Sussex dealer has one up for £15k, that I know was being sold by another dealer some months back for £12k. Whether that sort of money changed dealer hands I doubt we’ll know. The “new” Mk1s now being done by Mazda are probably going to sell for in excess of £30k, if the previous 2004 is anything to go by. Yes, Mazda is now offering Mk1s with a full bare metal paint job, all new interiors, mostly new mechaniclas (engines are stripped down and rebuilt), this included commissioning of long discontinued parts.
Clearly Le Mans are much like any other MX5, ranging from rotted wrecks to near unused garage queens. Their long value prospects are probably not that certain because of their few numbers, and that they were, in effect, a dealer special. They are now eligable to be exported to the US. I don’t see any going that way.