Xs4Eyes;c-154468 wroteGrab a unique cars mag and see what 21grand will get you. My mouth waters at the thought.
I know what
13 grand could get me, and my mouth is watering at
that thought - ahhh, when that damned house sells....
If the buyer of this 245 pays the full $14K USD for it, it will be more for emotional reasons than rational ones.
Even so, 240s in OZ are now fetching bigger prices lately. A high mileage 242GT from Canberra recently sold for over $11K. A
non-running, auto 242GT here in TAS was listed for $2900 and sold very quickly. There's a high mileage 245 at a dealer here that was listed for $8K IIRC, and it was an auto, nothing special, and I believe it sold.
Looking at Gumtree, etc, the days of the good bargain 240s are over; there's still a few roached and molested ones around, and sellers want gold for them, too. But the days of finding car deals as sweet as Jamesinc's "Band-Aid" may be gone. Which is good for those who own them now, and already know their many virtues.
Funny thing, though - US prices for P1800s are now also going into orbital territory, after being quite repressed for years. US eBay has a listing for a wreck that's been rolled and pretty much rooted, and the numbers being bid on it now are above those what you would have paid for a running car that needed some love a few years ago.
IMO, presently cheap collectables at the moment are 16V 940s and 940 Turbos, because they're often ravaged for their good bits to go into other things. Original and complete ones will be even more difficult to find in a few years.