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  1. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    #10451 joe sackey, Apr 12, 2019
    Safe travels!

    I'm excited to see another come to the USA.
     
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  3. Rossocorsa1

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    #10453 Rossocorsa1, Apr 13, 2019
    I wonder why they don’t have this car on their website.
     
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  4. Spyder-Man

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    #10454 Spyder-Man, Apr 13, 2019
    Wow. Big money. How was the condition and milage?
     
  5. joe sackey

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    #10455 joe sackey, Apr 13, 2019
    That's $620,000, this is a really mint example, but FWIW we've sold a number of them in excess of that figure.
     
  6. cnpapa24

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    #10456 cnpapa24, Apr 13, 2019
    Consistent with what mint cars have sold for and should bring.
     
  7. rambointhegarage

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    #10457 rambointhegarage, Apr 14, 2019
  8. joe sackey

    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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  11. Lemacc

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    #10461 Lemacc, Apr 14, 2019
    FLA12823, totally wrong restored.
     
  12. Lemacc

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    #10462 Lemacc, Apr 14, 2019
    swedish spec, rare indeed! Raymond do you know the chassis number of this one?
     
  13. Lemacc

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    #10463 Lemacc, Apr 14, 2019
    Does anyone know the VIN of Graeme Hunt´s QV?

    The other QV from Klausen looks quite good! Any further informations known?
     
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    joe sackey Five Time F1 World Champ

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    #10464 joe sackey, Apr 14, 2019
    The expression 'restoration' is all-too-often loosely used, and when that happens it often misrepresents reality.

    Just judging by a number of images I have seen, I would not call the work done to FLA12823 a restoration by any means, some parts of the car were not touched at all and remain original whilst other parts have received a refurbishment of sorts with license given to a number of non-original modifications.

    Restoration by definition is the action of returning something to it's former (as manufactured) condition, and it's generally understood in the classic car world that this means a comprehensive reconstruction or rehabilitation of the whole car.

    However, I think in it's Nero Tenebre/Nero livery, it represents a nice opportunity with good potential.

    Isn't the so-called 'Swedish Spec' really just a Swiss-specification (Tipo Svizzera) with a couple of headlamp washer nozzles stuck on the front fenders above the headlight housing below the headlamps?
     
  15. Lemacc

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    #10465 Lemacc, Apr 15, 2019
    Indeed, but not for this price!

    In this thread we started with the name 'swedish-spec' and the distinguishing feature are the washer nozzles. If this is a 'swiss-spec', why GLA12005 which is a 100% original example, don´t have the nozzles? Both cars, the red example @Lamborghini Geneve and GLA12005 seems MY87 examples.
     
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    #10466 joe sackey, Apr 15, 2019
    Agreed, both appear to be 1987s.

    Swiss spec cars don't have the nozzles, what I'm saying is the Swedish spec cars are basically Swiss spec cars with nozzles added.
     
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  17. Robert W

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    #10467 Robert W, Apr 15, 2019
    Hi
    Car was sold by original owner’s son in May 2015 in mint condition with 6,000kms one owner on LAM443. One of the large number of red QVs UK supplied RHD that are easy to confuse!!
    Robert
     
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    #10469 joe sackey, Apr 16, 2019
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    Besides the 3 Downdrafts we have sold in recent times, my son has GLA12914 under contract in Sale Pending status with one of his Porsche collector clients, finger's crossed this'll go down as a sale soon.

    IMHO, this special-colored Downdraft'll come to represent what for many will have been a missed opportunity, this is a market to buy cars in and build the collection, as they say, Fortune Favors The Bold

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    #10473 K9COP, Apr 17, 2019
  24. rmolke85

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    #10474 rmolke85, Apr 17, 2019
    Fantastic. This certainly is one to grab for the long term. One day people will be like well that thing was there for anyone to have can’t believe I didn’t jump!!
     
  25. jb21

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    #10475 jb21, Apr 17, 2019
    I saw this one too. It was very clean looking, but impossible to tell too much from a quick look around. And I am always cautious on mechanicals with very low miles cars.

    The asking price quoted, however, was not £475k but £425k. Which is US$550k.

    J



     
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