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WHEW! Now if I can just win the damn lottery.
First snow of the winter coming down. Tiny little flakes and bunches of them.
Three weeks until palm trees and Mount Gay.
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3/18/1963 - -31-327 factory hardtop express, the only one left.
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Mikey,

Here is a real project, but its an original M, if you buy it you must have BMC do the restoration, but they are supposed to be very good - budget 70-80K and it will be done right and delivered to your door in 6 months.

http://www.dreamsonwheels.com/index.php ... aley-100-m

Randall the $54K M at Barett Jackson did not include buyers premium of 10% call it $61K - it was probably a good deal.

My brother bought a running M, 22 years ago for $900.00 its still sitting in his barn waiting for his retirement and its restoration (it looks 50 times better than the BMC M). He offered to sell it to me for $3,000.00 several years ago but when I told my wife about my "New Project" I was reminded of the numerous "Unfinished Old Projects, TR2, New Master Bathroom, New Laundry Room, etc." now I don't think he would part with it. But after seeing Randall's 4 it makes me want, want, want one.

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Here is the SMC 2005 US Guide to pricing for 100's:

Price Guide Values
Year/Make/Model Low High

55-56 Austin-Healey 100 w/ LeMans kit $35,000 $50,000
55-56 Austin-Healey 100M $50,000 $75,000
55 Austin-Healey 100S $200,000 $300,000
55-56 Austin-Healey 100-4 (BN2, 4-sp) $28,000 $45,000
53-55 Austin-Healey 100-4 (BN1, 3-sp) $28,000 $40,000
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Clay,
Reminded of the unfinished project routine regularly. damn, that is one rough AH. Don't think I would want to start there.
Talk about out-of-site pricing try Porsche Speedsters. My Brother and I bought one thirty years ago for 2K. 1956 Super, second owner, all original, rusty. It sat for twenty-five years for its turn. I finally told my bro, it's time. He was reluctant because of the cost. Told him to research it. We are at the end of a #1 (but not concourse) restoration. Investment - about forty-five K: value - about 150K. We should all do so well in the stock market.
Randall,
Watch for a fastback hardtop for your car. In the late fifties somebody made a limited number. When you put the hardtop on you remove your trunk lid and it fits the HT. Looks like a Daytona coupe.
Multicimully cool!
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paid $4500 in 1985....
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mikey......the car is like the boat...outside....the boat has no enclosure ...not even a bimini,,,if it rains i go below.......the soft top for the car is in the shed the last 20 years......drive it year round open.....no interest in a hard top....when it comes to should a would a could a.........my list is long.....some prime examples.........ferrari GTO,,,18 K bugatti 35B $3500.......and the one that still stings.....cobra 260...one of the original prtototypes....4K...drove it ..had the cash in my pocket ..............and.......................i bought a................boat
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Randall,
This kind of crying requires huge quantites of Mount Gay. There was a Ferrari Lusso in my past, a Shelby GT 350, a, a, a damn . . .
Got to stop, I'm getting the keyboard wet.
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3/18/1963 - -31-327 factory hardtop express, the only one left.
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Me too!

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Hey, I let a 1962 Studebaker Lark Cruiser get away from me!
"There is nothing quite so satisfying, as simply messing around in boats."
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