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Subject: Re: Randall 977

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Coming back to where this topic started: randall977 (Christian)

Christian has asked me to remove the two very long restoration blogs that he had started, which I regret because they were very informative and helpful. As amateur admin of this forum I do not have the time to keep all long threads on track and act against unjustified criticism.

I hope he will bring back a summary or some of the information later.

My recommendation for all forum users is: start short threads on each topic. Go to the appropriate section and start a new topic rather than adding to an ongoing one and discussing about something else. For example this topic here started with the question what happened to randall977 and later the discussion is about color codes..

If you discuss the whole restoration of your car you risk to receive justified or unjustified bad comments. If you want to avoid this completely you should not post on a forum but create your homepage and display it there. And if somebody replies agressively on something posted he risks that the willingness to post goes down.

Subject: Re: Randall 977

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Peter

Thank you for all your hard work keeping this forum going.

Your points are correct, a great shame this has happened.

C - thank you for sharing your work on 108 with us.

Simon

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Subject: Re: Randall 977

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Thank you for doing this, I hope to contribute some more material soon to help make up for it.

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Subject: Re: Randall 977

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Peter and Christian

Let me repeat the thanks to both of you - to Peter for founding and running the forum and to Christian for your hard work in showing us the progress on your car in an interesting and informative way.

Christian, I am deeply disappointed that anyone would be less than grateful and courteous to you, however much their opinions may differ.

Thank you!

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Subject: Re: Randall 977

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Seems so way off the mark at that price, someone must have blown their kids inheritance on it me thinks.

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Subject: Re: Randall 977

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£180K is not so outlandish bearing in mind for example that AML put 3000 hours into the restoration of their car (LR146)

Subject: Re: Randall 977

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I agree with David. With well-restored DB4s & 6s breaking £300k and DB5s £500k, £150-200k is about right, at least for the moment.

Subject: Re: Randall 977

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Definitely not convinced.

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Subject: Re: Randall 977

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The Rapide is a key part of AML's development during a golden era, and, it is intimately linked to DB himself. If you want a super rare and exclusive 1960's Aston which has the wow factor then £180k is probably a bargain. It wasn't that long ago that you could get a Rapide for not too much (comparatively), this is exactly what people said about DB5's in the mid 1980's too - the Rapides time has come...

The other thing to bear in mind (as has been mentioned), is the time and cost of restoration. 3000 hours is about what I've spent (so far) and it still hasn't come cheap either. It has to be worth at least £100k just to cover the costs.

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Subject: Re: Randall 977

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I should have added in my original posting, that £180k is in the owners pocket, not the full price including Bonham's broker fees...

Like nearly everything from the David Brown era, these are the cars that people want, and to a paraphrase a quote from a gentleman on this forum, written elsewhere: "If you want a Rapide the boat may well be close to departure.." I think it is departing personally, and yes I do watch what you write with interest, may not agree with all of it of course...

If you haven't purchased, well...

Before I forget, 153 should be in new paint any day now, lots of horrors uncovered on the way of course.

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