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Originally posted by Hugh R
Fast, if the flywheel and damper are balanced, I'll be pulling the oil pan and at least looking at the rods, they're marked, so should be easy to tell. Doubt it though.
mb911, I bought it 35 years ago for $1,750, about the price of a used Pinto or Vega then. I got it in England while on leave from the service. The guy I bought it from was a British Colonel and he got it in Sudan, North Africa. The car was originally sold in Switzerland, which is why its left hand drive. It was extremely worn out when I got it. The value is one of my dilemmas, I'm an average Joe and the car is worth way, way more than I would ever consider paying for a vehicle. I saw two DB4s for sale in Los Angeles recently that were very, very tatty and they were asking $125K to $150K for them. I'd rate those two something like a 5; I'd rate mine at about an 8 or 9.
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The late Tony Hogg, of Road & Track, related a similar but more severe story about his original Cobra SC (427). He had purchased it when a couple of years old, at less than original sticker price, repaired what needed repaired, and then kept it in good repair consistently. His first inkling of the difficulty of owning the car was when his insurance company told him that he needed to go to a specialty company to insure his ride which had escallated in value to about $80,000.00. When the specialty insurance company told him to stop driving the car on the road at all, because it's value had risen to the princely sum of $250,000.00, he sold the car, this was in the mid-1980's IRRC. Can't drive it, ain't going to own it, was his personal philosophy.
You may arrive at such a point someday, more's the pity.