Originally Posted by chip-3door
To me its all bollocks with the values, i cant understand the logic of how one car is four times as much as an identical car just cause of something written on a piece of paper you use once a year to tax it, to me how good a car is can be determined from driving it and what it does like, handles like, how much rust, that sort of thing, but i guess thats cause im from a vauxhall background mainly where this sort of logbook snobbery doesnt really exist as much.
I can understand a slight difference in cost based on whats on the logbook, but cant understand the extent to which it happens with rs500's
Chip there are 2 different types of people that buy RS's. One will buy it purely based on wanting to drive that particular car and won't be too worried about history etc...as long as its sound. The other type will pay top dollar for a genuine, mint, original car with the right miles and bits of paperwork etc....and probably will only use it once every blue moon to go to a show!
As for Vauxhalls there is no 'log book' snobbery as they haven't built cars in years that were even remotely rare except for Lotus Carltons which still command silly money.