Re: Ur-Q ... buyer's market or seller's market?

[OorQue@aol.com]

>  If any of those high $ cars that we have seen advertised have sold, they
>  probably went to people who don't know the cars or the market and think
>  that rarity makes them valuable.  That's only true if you can sell it.

I ran into the same phenomenon when I was collecting used records ... after a 
while, word got out that some of the old Mercury and RCA stereo classical 
records from the '50s and '60s were sonic and musical gems and -- voila! -- 
dealers everywhere started marking up -- way, way up -- the prices of EVERY 
record on these labels even though a lot of them were dogs.  Record buyers 
likewise got carried away and bought everything they could get their hands on 
and it took a full decade before the market settled down and prices once 
again reflected the desirability and rarity of certain records, and not some 
dealer's dream about funding his IRA contribution for the year with the 
proceeds from a sale.

I'll admit that I got lucky buying my Ur-Q -- I found it less than two miles 
from my house and paid the original owners' daughter $8k for it with 74k on 
the odometer -- but once I joined the "inner circle," I was surprised to 
learn how many Ur-Qs changed hands relatively cheaply.  At one time, I 
seriously thought about buying a few couple more '85s as an investment and 
over a few months, I managed to track down four cars that I could have bought 
for roughly $10k per ... fortunately, my older and wiser father successfully 
talked me out of it.  :^)

The point is, I agree with Steve.  You can ask what you want for your car and 
maybe you'll even get lucky and get it, but the odds of actually selling ANY 
year Ur-Q in ANY kind of condition for more than $10k or so are pretty slim...

JG