I know these make money but not sure what it's actual value is I will only buy it to sell again. Here goes MK1 2door G reg 1969 28,000 miles
silver owned from new by Family was fathers now daughters 1300 automatic in original condition. What's everyone's thoughts.
[Edited on 7/11/13 by bowood14]
I will give you £5000 for it now, send me you paypal details !
Got to be worth 5k plus
So, a Mk1. Two door. Very low mileage. Tax free. Has the larger auto transmission tunnel. You'll be saying it has no sunroof next just to make it tick all the boxes!!
Bo11ocks, forgot to check if it had a hole in the top !
Cheers Owelly, for reminding me !
£4995.95.
Regards
Jon
No sunroof 
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I wouldn't be suprised if you could see £10k.
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Originally posted by owelly
I wouldn't be suprised if you could see £10k.
I'm still kicking myself for passing on a £1500 mint mk1 2 door and that was 12 years ago
If its minty clean could be worth 8k +
Lets see the colour of your dollars boys, my £4995 can be pay-pal'd now.
Please stop bidding this up with out being serious !
Regards
Jon
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Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
I'm still kicking myself for passing on a £1500 mint mk1 2 door and that was 12 years ago
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Originally posted by stevem427
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Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
I'm still kicking myself for passing on a £1500 mint mk1 2 door and that was 12 years ago
Heres a little story. When I was 17. Im now 54. My dad took me to look at a 1300s Mk1 Escort that was up for sale. £400 was the asking price. It was a bit battered, and I was humming and areing. The bloke said to me if you don't fancy the Escort you can have this for the same price. It was a Mk1 Lotus Cortina. White/green stripe. I said no it is to old fashioned. Came home in the Escort. When I look back now I could cry (and sometimes I do).
Steve.
Quick look on Autotrader shows 3 1.3s being advertised at £8K
So maybe ~£5k for an auto is not an unreasonable offer.
probably worth more in bits though 
[Edited on 7-11-13 by bimbleuk]
My father used to run an auto leasing company, they got a load of base MKI escorts in for stock, had to send them back after two months of standing
outside as rust holes started appearing at the rear of the front wings 
I could have purchased a silver DB6 when 21, it was at fell bridge garage, east Grinstead for £2,650 so I got a cortina instead as it was modern.
Since then I must have driven around 750,000 miles in my own cars, as above you would have moved on like most stuff.
My now valuable if kept unwanted cars at one point:
Granda mkI 3.0litre ghia
Capri 3.0 litre s with fish nets, one of the last ones
Classic 2 door range rover, again one of the last with very rare electric windows and overdrive
I've learnt my lesson now and run an old car everyday with a hopefully climbing in value nice one for weddings and funerals 19 year old DB7....
Maybe one day it will make stupid money
Escorts make silly money...... Cannot really understand it myself but the market sets the price.
Between 7 & 8k would be my guess if its nice.
A mate has 2 Mk1's and an original Mk2 RS2000 Custom with the original fishnet Recarro interior, He also collects spares for them and as he says
it better that money in the bank 
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Originally posted by bimbleuk
Quick look on Autotrader shows 3 1.3s being advertised at £8K
So maybe ~£5k for an auto is not an unreasonable offer.
probably worth more in bits though
[Edited on 7-11-13 by bimbleuk]
Yikes! Those care amazing Valuations.
Simple curiosity: Why are some willing to pay large for such an excreable/rubbish pile.
Good condition or not..Oddity value? or yet more of the Museum Britain mindset?
haha!
its only worth what someone will pay...................
looks like your best offer is by Mr Slingshot??? You could advertise it for £20k and be waiting years, or someone could kick your door in with the
money within hours.
There's garages and sheds up and down the country rammed with auto exotica with "what's it worth" tags attached to them. I know
for a Mk1, fully rebuilt years ago, just languishing in the corner of a dusty barn. the owner thinks its worth £10's of thousands, it might be?
sadly only his widow/kids will find out cos he aint selling !!!!!
your escort, your gamble, your choice.......hope it goes to a good home and gets used
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Originally posted by clanger
its only worth what someone will pay...................
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Originally posted by owelly
I wouldn't be suprised if you could see £10k.
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Originally posted by Bare
Simple curiosity: Why are some willing to pay large for such an excreable/rubbish pile.
Good condition or not..Oddity value?
It's definitely an 'era' thing
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
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Originally posted by Bare
Simple curiosity: Why are some willing to pay large for such an excreable/rubbish pile.
Good condition or not..Oddity value?
You have to have been there, and had one
Slimy... thing is no one has paid it, which I guess is what you're getting at.
I've seen a few Series Land Rovers 'for sale' for a good few years at £20K+
There's so much out there, so unrealistically priced, that as you've said, only the kids, widows (or Government) will ever know what someone
is prepared to pay - usually a fraction of the owner's perceived 'value' at the disposal auction. Same with houses and everything
else. We're obsessed with money and 'value', seems very few people will move on (before the Care Home takes them) and try something new
without getting what the other thing 'owes them'.
What will really make you cry.
I was on a Can Am team in Shelby's shop in California and the Daytona Coupes were sitting in a corner covered in dust, I asked what was going to
happen to them and was told, for sale $5000.00 US each with all the spares.
This at a time there were no vintage races and the classic phrase at the time was (there is nothing older than last years Ferrari!). They were
talking about the GTO!
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Can someone with better computer skills please hack Bares account and put this picture as his avatar it's genius!!
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Originally posted by owelly
Its worth about £50 as they're shitty cars. However some people will pay about 7k, some other people will transfer ID numbers onto it from a
handy V5, pass it off as a cooking model thats been sat in a barn
ask richard lepley to value it , or handle the sale on comission...
or is it jason lepley , either way youll get a realistic value...