I don't disagree that a bit of time and money have gone into it, but when was the last time you saw someone get the money back that they put into the car? Some might get close but the majority don't in my experience. Either way, it's a nice car, and I hope it gets sold to someone who'll enjoy it.

$10K higher than it should be ?? This is turn key 2 door. Yeah you may be able to build one if you had some skill like a mechanic or panel beater maybe, it would still cost about $15K without labor. A bit of time went into this. The 2 door on Ebay currently, would have a reserve of atleast $8K, (And how many in Aust??) Plus motor, plus paint, plus interior etc. Definitely worth low $20K's

$25,000 Gumtree link

That one looks nice and all... but 25k?! Seems about 10k higher than it should be, but I suppose people must be paying that kind of money these days

There is another one for sale on gumtree in QLD for $25k negotiable.
Looks really good.

Shill bidding for sure but mostly bluff bids.

here is how it goes:

- Seller gets told he's got a rare coupè.
- Seller lists using reserve feature to get best price.
- Bidders wanting to identify the reserve throw false bids down and inflate the already unrealistic selling price.
- Auction ends with apparently lots of activity but no sale.
- Seller now convinced he is selling a golden unicorn.
- Seller lists again and the cycle repeats, genuine bidders lose interest.
- seller realises unrealistic price and lowers the reserve but by now the auction stinks of suspectos.
- Seller now has the false bidders dropping bids like it's their weekend bender on the pingaz.

-Auction eventually ends with the seller frustrated with the process and the buyer turns out to be some oaf who wants to "dooidup" and bang some modern motor in it with a paint job reminiscent of a deep sea fishing lure.

All parties unhappy, genuine buyers lose the opportunity and a good classic goes to the chop chop to become a boring half arsed turd.

What a shame.........

Someone prove my prediction wrong!

From a frustrated, genuine bidder of auction number 2 of 10, max bid of $5300, now not interested.

Current listing found. here.

Interesting...

So whoever was jacking the price up to 7.6k obviously wasn't a legit bidder I assume?

This has suss written all over it.

It has a buy it now price of 6g....

Hopefully who ever gets the old girl restores her to her former glory and doesn't leave it to rot away in their shed

This is on gumtree now for 8k . I think that's a pretty fair price . Seems to be a pretty complete car.