[urq] Ur Quattro Prices

[Buchholz, Steven]

... not sure that things seem so dire to me ... with a car with so small an audience the market prices are going to fluctuate ... and IMO offering cars like this for sale on eBay will almost guarantee low return ... don't let what you do to your car be guided only on resale value ... if you have done your modifications properly they may well command a premium over stock (who wants WX performance anyway?) ... 

I'd say, make the car to be what you want and drive it while you've got feelers out to the market at all times.  From what I see there are folks on this list who do so now ... offer the car up regularly for what you think its worth, and if noone wants to take it then wait until next time ... I'm sure there are more people like me ... I will own an '84 some day ... when the right car is available and I've got the discretionary funds to buy it.

My modus operandi on my car is to only undertake reversible mods ... but I don't choose that with the expectation that some day I'd want to convert it back to stock to maximize the resale value ... in fact I don't know why I choose to do that, but until I win the lottery it isn't going to matter that much anyway ... 

Steve B
San José, CA (USA)
> 
> Well, it seems the time has come. The bottom has dropped out of the price of
> Ur Quattros. There have been 5 or 6 decent '83 examples that have failed to
> meet very modest reserves on Ebay, bottoming out between $4k and $6k. The
> black one from AZ, a silver one in CA, and many others, including mine that
> I would argue is the most reliable UrQ on the road (unless you could that
> time in UT at very high altitude ;-).
> 
> No one is willing to pay for these cars. A pristine '85 should fetch
> $15k...... but that doesn't seem to be happening either. I spent a lot of
> time putting the old '84 back to complete stock, but no more for me. Reality
> call to those looking to create concours '83s, just modify the damn thing
> and have fun driving it, give it some power, swap in a 20V, stop wasting
> your time trying to stay stock with a car whose US perfomance figures were
> lackluster at best.  I'm putting a 4.2L V8 in my '85 next month after the
> year-long full restoration. It has 160,000 miles on the original odometer,
> and despite being from beverly hills and being MINT in body, it doesn't seem
> worth putting her back to stock. Just my $0.02.