MikeR
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| posted on 17/6/25 at 08:35 PM |
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How to price an incomplete car (aka i'm thinking of selling my 'spare' chassis)
After being tempted to the dark side and buying a Caterham I've not touched my locost in 18 months. Its taking up space and reality is i'm
not going to finish it, i'm enjoying Caterham life too much.
So I'm facing into selling it, but to do this I need to figure out a price that is reasonable so i can buy Caterham spares (like a spare K series
engine). How do you price a book chassis? fully welded but not powder coated, steel floor, de-dion, suspension with adjustable trailing arm mounts
(Procomps suggestion), steering rack and column, "Proper" roll over bar build to pass SVA then IVA. I'd like to think its worth a
couple of thousand so I can buy lots of Caterham parts but in reality i know its far far less ..... but where do you start?
I can find on ebay a road registered car sold as spares/repair, 10 years of driving and then not started in 10 years for £500. On ebay someone sold a
Haynes chassis with "sold as seen, it needs the paint grinding off and welds checking" for £56 in April. I know the world and market has
moved on but is a chassis actually virtually worthless?
I've got other bits like grp, windscreen, aeroscreen (i'm a serial parts collector), propshaft, 5speed, xflow but i think they'll all
fetch more money sold separately.
[Edited on 17/6/25 by MikeR]
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jps
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| posted on 18/6/25 at 07:25 AM |
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I would think the best approach is look at what a similarly spec’d bare chassis costs from someone like GBS or MK and then half it, or perhaps go down
to a third of that price.
It’s going to be a niche market you’re selling to and I suppose the problem is there’s no come back if there’s a problem with the quality of the
build, compared to something bought from MK / GBS etc
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Slimy38
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| posted on 18/6/25 at 09:52 AM |
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Unfortunately you are right, the world of buying and selling kit cars overall is poor, and parts is a fraction of that. I'm seeing beautiful road
legal cars being sold for 4-5K. '90% finished' cars that used to go for a couple of thousand now command only three figure prices.
I think you're heading down the right lines with selling parts separately though. I see many requests for roll bars, steering racks, wishbones,
panels etc. The chassis itself may be a challenge to sell given it's size and how a buyer might perceive the workmanship.
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