Took the parts guy at work out to a local show last night in my Cossie and he fell in love with it. Been looking on Internet for one for him to buy and the prices seem to have doubled from a few years ago or more but the examples for sale seem to be miles better than the junk that was up for sale a few years ago

 

the supply is starting to dry up now mate ,with the amount being broke

 

Yeah there must have been a hell of a lot broken up for spares in there time.

 

getting old and rarer by the day, search ebay for none Cosy sierras and see what they are fetching too!

 

there are more 3dr cossies left now than 2wd saffs as far as i know

 

Bloody hell I would never have guessed that. Made me laugh at the show I went to last night at our local raceway, we were driving out and we heard a lad point at my car and say to his mates 'look at that escort, I like that' did make me chuckle lol

 

Your right, a few years back Sapphire Cosworths were being sold for less than 3k but they were the roughest ones around,mostly rusty with worn out seats, worn out engines and gearboxes etc A lot have been broken up and thankfully now, good examples are starting to get harder to find and so the prices are going up. There are fewer Sapphires now than 3 doors so if your friend wants a really good example he will have to pay quite a lot for it.

 

Prices have definetly increased due to the amount that have been broken and still lots of good cars being broke. There are good cars out there still for reasonable money, some cars seem to be advertised at £10-12k but don't think they sell. A mate sold a very nice 4x4 on eBay recently and it made £5900. Think u need around £6k for a decent car these days upwards.

 

Your mates 4X4 was sold to cheaply in my opinion,I have been on here before about the expectation from some people that a well sorted Sapphire can be bought for peanuts, but even a rough 3 door which shares everything mechanically with them is at least twice as much.Sapphire prices need to go up as good ones are now hard to find.

 

You never see good rwd ones for sale 4x4's are ten a penny

 

you are spot on andy

 

I would be interested to know too as im fed up looking at my flint 2wd and have other stuff in my sights!!

 

I had a cracking 4x4 Saff changed hands for £7k back in 2008, might have gone up a couple k by now if it's still in good nick. 2wds are much more sought after and command higher money.

 

The price of the cars and parts will only go up in value.

 

Yeah it's the parts prices going up I'm not looking forward too :-( I've been hoarding some parts for a few years in case the prices suddenly shot up. I expect they'll get to a point in like 20 years time where they'll be no parts anywhere. Though company's seem to be makin a lot of new parts while the cars are still popular

 

Sold my 92' Smokestone Sapph early this year for 7K, stage 3, engine rebuilt, new bigger turbo, clutch etc. approx 3,000mls prior to me selling it. The car was a real straight rust free example with lovely clean leather.
I have made a very big mistake selling it even though I was hardly using it! I have been browsing the sights again looking at Cosworths...

 

There's a nice looking smoke stone blue one at a dealers on eBay I noticed

 

I did notice while I was looking at some a little while back for a mate all the 2wd ones seemed to be thrashed heaps of shit owned by nippers who had ran out of money long before they put it up for sale but the 4x4s seemed to be owned by older gentleman who money was no object. Maybe different now that was a good 5 or so years ago

 

Always liked saffs, and when I get itchy for something new would consider one, but for a good nick with lower miles theve gone thorough the roof over last year or so, bought my low mileage erst about a year ago and they were similar prices to that around 6-7k, now your looking 10-12 if your lucky. But then they all have made a jump, 2 years ago I sold my mk1 focus rs 66k miles for about 6 grand, 2 years on your looking at 9 grand. Just hoping when I get an urge for something new my erst will rise at the same rate as the saffs and other rs's models!