Author Topic: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???  (Read 6999 times)

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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2008, 03:24:59 »
I reckon that if you can get it at €70, get it. You could sell parts of it for lots more.

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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2008, 04:01:10 »
quote:
Originally posted by vanesp

I reckon that if you can get it at €70, get it. You could sell parts of it for lots more.

Peter



I'd like to have a second Hard Top and this not with the color of the body but  to paint black  ;)
« Last Edit: May 18, 2008, 04:12:21 by gilles82 »

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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2008, 11:20:54 »
At that price, its a steal!

As a second hardtop, you can take your time trying to restore it, and then post the writeup here on the site!  ;)
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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2008, 11:51:44 »
Things seldom sell on eBay for the opening bid amount. By all means, watch it and bid what it is worth to you.

Funny thing, I've actually thought about selling my hard top. I will probably never use it and it just takes up space in the garage. But if I ever do try to sell the car, the buyer will probably want it.
« Last Edit: May 18, 2008, 11:52:56 by Paddy_Crow »

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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2008, 16:55:01 »
Sounds like a good deal.  You could paint it anothe color and do the same with another set of hubcaps and have a two tone version of your car.  You could also probably re-sell it for more.

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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2008, 05:41:19 »
You could put a sun roof in it
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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2008, 22:37:45 »
gilles82 --- do you know what a restored one is worth?

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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2008, 22:54:06 »
The handles alone go for $300.00+!  Sounds like a good deal to me.

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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2008, 01:34:39 »
Only one slight snag... the vendor will NOT ship. The sales description says that the buyer must go and collect the hardtop in Normandy.

I have a bit of time on my hands (NOT) so I might drive down (800 km's there, and back) to go and pick it up. I suppose the easiest way is to drive top down with my Pagoda and litterally "pick it up". I'm not sure a hard top would fit IN any of my other cars...

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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2008, 08:20:42 »
Peter, a few years back we schemed to get a hardtop that was on Craigslist from the Bay Area to the East Coast. The Great Hardtop Handoff. Members of the group would "carry the top" to the next member and so on... Never happened! But maybe, the Euro crowd could get it done.
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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2011, 06:08:17 »
I'm trolling the old topics and came across this one. How did the story end? Was the price deceitful? Was the hardtop a wreck? Or did Peter go get it? Where did it end up?
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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #12 on: December 29, 2011, 09:19:57 »
No idea what happened... I did not go to pick it up.
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Re: 70 € for a Hard Top, Good Price???
« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2011, 09:47:01 »
I once bought a hard top for a 107 on ebay. I drove 100 miles in the recipient car to collect only to find that it was so rotten that I felt unable to actually secure it to the car for the return journey. Never again!