Fairmont GT ###SOLD###

[Michael H]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Genuine-XW-F ... 43b36b48cf

[RASSIE]

Price is good. It will sell soon!
Rassie.

[FairmontGT]

Thats my car - the reserve is met so it should sell. After not getting even 1 offer locally close to what I paid for the car I decided to advertise it in AUS and got a decent price within 1 day.....

[Dougie]

All the best with your sale. The shipping agent that the buyer used to ship my XW to AUS did a fantastic job. If your buyer needs a recommendation for a SA agent give me a call

Dougie

[j1autotech]

Will be very interesting to see what it goes for.
Not often do you see an XW FMT GT come up for sale.

J1

[ZA Perana]

Thats my car - the reserve is met so it should sell. After not getting even 1 offer locally close to what I paid for the car I decided to advertise it in AUS and got a decent price within 1 day.....

A sad reflection of the local market it seems.

[zahistorics]

Thats my car - the reserve is met so it should sell. After not getting even 1 offer locally close to what I paid for the car I decided to advertise it in AUS and got a decent price within 1 day.....

A sad reflection of the local market it seems.

Local market demand (an so prices) are a whole lot better than 5 years ago, but still not for these.

[ZA Perana]

Thats my car - the reserve is met so it should sell. After not getting even 1 offer locally close to what I paid for the car I decided to advertise it in AUS and got a decent price within 1 day.....

A sad reflection of the local market it seems.

Local market demand (an so prices) are a whole lot better than 5 years ago, but still not for these.

I strongly disagree with this, the muscle car market in SA is going nowhere, I follow autotrader, gumtree and the same cars are listed week in and week out. I went to a dealer yesterday, 1958 Corvette, non original motor, R950k, Tiaans excellent Camaro, not moving at R260k.

What we are seeing now in my opinion is the market correcting itself on the back of huge prices in 2009-2010 then the huge slow down in 2011 and 2012. The reality is people bought as investments and many are now finding their investment is not as "liquid" as they thought it would be.

[RASSIE]

100% correct. Cash is not flowing as it use to.
Rassie.

[Dougie]

The Fairmont GT will never again just follow the South African market. In AUS the Falcon GT has always been seen as THE muscle car and until a few years ago most Australians were under the impression that the only place in the world that you could get one is Australia.

Then suddenly the Fairmont GT was discovered in huge numbers and they found out that it was identical to their idle. Fairmont GT prices rocketed and Falcon GT prices started dropping. The more the Australians discover that they are identical the more the prices will start merging, therefore the Fairmont will always have a market in AUS but never again in South Africa for what they sold for a few years ago.

Prices for the GT are therefore unique to the GT and have nothing to do with the local market.

My few cents worth.