13-07-2018, 09:28 AM
American prices are a puzzle.
I dunno about the UK but here interminable TV programmes about cooking have been replaced by American Pickers. The age of some programmes is uncertain, but the prices for old motor cycles are staggering, tens of thousands of dollars. Yet for old cars prices very modest. Here, a country formerly packed with old cars, interest is now low; the cars I am familiar with, Sevens and Jowetts, fetch half or less UK price. Being practicable in modern traffic and with spares cheaply avilable Ford Model A coupe would fetch $NZ15k-30K (half in UK pounds). Yet on the USA programme good but laid up Model A coupes go for a mere $US6000. ($NZ8000).
I dunno about the UK but here interminable TV programmes about cooking have been replaced by American Pickers. The age of some programmes is uncertain, but the prices for old motor cycles are staggering, tens of thousands of dollars. Yet for old cars prices very modest. Here, a country formerly packed with old cars, interest is now low; the cars I am familiar with, Sevens and Jowetts, fetch half or less UK price. Being practicable in modern traffic and with spares cheaply avilable Ford Model A coupe would fetch $NZ15k-30K (half in UK pounds). Yet on the USA programme good but laid up Model A coupes go for a mere $US6000. ($NZ8000).