Ahhh, memories of Jim Clark throwing one of these around on his weekends when he wasn't racing an F1 car.. proper racing drivers back then. none of this 'sure for men' moisturiser rubbish..

I was scouting for a local place that can handle chassis work and setup and came across this beauty..

If i were a rich man ..

http://www.tracktorque.co.uk/sale.php

 

Heck of a price though ...

 

old Fords are stupid money

and seeing Jim or Roger Clark making one dance doesn't make them great cars - they really aren't

I am involved with classics in various ways and I see a major price crash on the way for the new kids on the block

I backed my own judgement by selling a dozen cars I had warehoused and so far it's clear I sold at the top of the market because prices have now stalled

I'll buy more cars again but not until after the readjustment that's coming

the big money at the moment is in mortgage free top end property as the rich seek to distance themselves more and more from the rabble

 

Old race cars with FIA HTP papers will always command more, regardless of who built them.

You're eligible to race in all sorts of historic formula with HTP papers, at the moment it's a growing part of the sport (again I suspect as the wealthy seek to put distance between themselves and scum racers like me), puts the cars out of reach of the majority of racers (not only the purchase price, but the repair costs for true historics is astronomical).

 

life's a bitch isn't it?

I'd 'love' to race a historic Maserati but I don't have anything like the money needed to buy one, let alone race it

I can't see anything wrong with some cars being out of reach of many people

it's no different to houses, hi-fi, healthcare, education or some types of food

and it's not as if there aren't tens of thousands of affordable classics that people can buy for a couple of grand and then campaign at the level they can manage

you're right - the cars with the right history will always command a premium and will continue to do so

(until financial Armageddon strikes of course, when all our houses are worthless, together with every other asset. I'll have a 250F then please, together with Park Lane and I'll have my own little race track)

 

At the moment it seems the growing areas of club motorsport are the historics (regs get tighter and tighter, keeping those without deep enough pockets out unless they're good enough or well connected enough to be asked to drive for an owner) and the more open series (like ours) where all the stuff that was current a few years back (like our Ginetta, and a surprising number of Seat Supercopa cars) can go and be campaigned (relatively) cheaply.

What's suffering is the manufacturer backed middle ground series that require £200-£500k to compete.

When my time comes, I can see myself moving to historics in my own small way (MG, Austin A40 type of thing).