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Commer For Sale - Low Miles, 1959, Petrol Engine. (On Facebook Marketplace)
2 years 5 months ago #227997
by mammoth
Replied by mammoth on topic Commer For Sale - Low Miles, 1959, Petrol Engine. (On Facebook Marketplace)
Great truck but shame they start off on the wrong foot. No price set and asking for a value is the sellers version of being a tyre kicker.
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2 years 5 months ago #227999
by Lang
Replied by Lang on topic Commer For Sale - Low Miles, 1959, Petrol Engine. (On Facebook Marketplace)
Steve you are right about the ad. I have found that the likelihood of "No wankers, low-ballers or tyre-kickers"+ being in an ad is in direct proportion to how many tattoos and how few teeth the seller has. 99% certain they come from, how will I put it?- the lower strata of the community. Unless I really want the item badly I steer clear rather than deal with an arrogant idiot.
Having said that the truck certainly looks like a great proposition for a club vehicle restoration or just use as-is.
Lang
Having said that the truck certainly looks like a great proposition for a club vehicle restoration or just use as-is.
Lang
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2 years 5 months ago #228000
by wee-allis
Replied by wee-allis on topic Commer For Sale - Low Miles, 1959, Petrol Engine. (On Facebook Marketplace)
Lang, I thought the saying was, "From the shallow end of the gene pool".
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2 years 5 months ago #228001
by oliver1950
You can't have too many toys!
Replied by oliver1950 on topic Commer For Sale - Low Miles, 1959, Petrol Engine. (On Facebook Marketplace)
Some from above the high tide mark of the gene pool
You can't have too many toys!
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2 years 5 months ago #228012
by overnite
Replied by overnite on topic Commer For Sale - Low Miles, 1959, Petrol Engine. (On Facebook Marketplace)
Couldn’t even be bothered to drive it out of the stable for some decent photos.
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2 years 5 months ago #228030
by JOHN.K.
Replied by JOHN.K. on topic Commer For Sale - Low Miles, 1959, Petrol Engine. (On Facebook Marketplace)
these guys get the impression its worth the crazy prices being asked by some of the hot rod /rat rod /holden conversion wankers ,who can be found asking $30-$40,000 for old trucks on fbook
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2 years 5 months ago - 2 years 5 months ago #228100
by 77louie400
Replied by 77louie400 on topic Commer For Sale - Low Miles, 1959, Petrol Engine. (On Facebook Marketplace)
A bit of a common now days, moneys number one, long gone are the days when they would give Dad's truck to someone they knew would restore to new condition out of respect for the their father, now it's let's screw the last cent out of the old prick. At this this point I must say I am not a collector or a restorer I am just really bad at selling things, when I load up a Truck with Bulldozers or Tractors or old cars and go west to a vintage machinery rally or even when I take a old motor cycle to a vintage bike rally it is only about the people you meet and the conversations you have nothing more. $600 dollars for fuel to have a yarn why, why not you can spend that much for a weekend in the city and really speak to no one.
I have been keeping a eye on The Vintage Motorcycle Clubs tour of Bathurst for 45 or so years and watched the changes in value of what's collected and what's worth money, and it travels with the 60 year old's, what the 60 year old's wished for when they were teenage is worth the most when the are in their 60's and the price rises and falls either side, that Commer is at best worth 3 grand, those that are paying a million for GTHO's have about 6 years to get out in 15 years they will in my guess they will be worth say $40,000 in good condition, if you apply the the same value to car's that has been applied to motor bikes over the last 40 years and why would you think any different.
I have been keeping a eye on The Vintage Motorcycle Clubs tour of Bathurst for 45 or so years and watched the changes in value of what's collected and what's worth money, and it travels with the 60 year old's, what the 60 year old's wished for when they were teenage is worth the most when the are in their 60's and the price rises and falls either side, that Commer is at best worth 3 grand, those that are paying a million for GTHO's have about 6 years to get out in 15 years they will in my guess they will be worth say $40,000 in good condition, if you apply the the same value to car's that has been applied to motor bikes over the last 40 years and why would you think any different.
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2 years 5 months ago #228109
by mammoth
Replied by mammoth on topic Commer For Sale - Low Miles, 1959, Petrol Engine. (On Facebook Marketplace)
Spot on observation Louie, and reminds me that the 50's and 60's trucks in my paddock are dropping to just scrap value as time goes by. There are exceptions, such as the genuinely rare AND historic, or with special provenance, but you have to find the buyer.
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2 years 5 months ago #228116
by 77louie400
You can see the change even at the Dubbo truck show over the short time it has been running, we are moving through the 70's and and starting early 80's now for 60 year old's, there is still a lot of older blokes turning up in older trucks but they are not buying them or they were their fathers, so the market for 50's is pretty much karput and market for 60's is as you say are slipping away to scrape value
Replied by 77louie400 on topic Commer For Sale - Low Miles, 1959, Petrol Engine. (On Facebook Marketplace)
Spot on observation Louie, and reminds me that the 50's and 60's trucks in my paddock are dropping to just scrap value as time goes by. There are exceptions, such as the genuinely rare AND historic, or with special provenance, but you have to find the buyer.
You can see the change even at the Dubbo truck show over the short time it has been running, we are moving through the 70's and and starting early 80's now for 60 year old's, there is still a lot of older blokes turning up in older trucks but they are not buying them or they were their fathers, so the market for 50's is pretty much karput and market for 60's is as you say are slipping away to scrape value
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