Moderator? Can we make this a sticky please?
Hi all fellow FRP owners! Been thinking.
As I now own 2 FRP's, the last one last week at hopefully the low point in this horrible price cycle, and have been watching selling prices generally going down in the last 2-3 years I wondered (for my own interest at first)
how best I might advertise/market one or both of my cars when the time comes to sell. The thought occurred that high/higher selling prices in principle is in all our interests at some point in our ownership cycle.
The real danger of these low prices is that the cars are in easy reach of the chavs who will mod/rip apart and ruin the heritage and originality of a rare, and getting rarer,car. I know some of you will say that FRPs are not special enough etc, etc but that will never change now and we must accept that. They can be special to someone out there who will believe it is the best thing ever.....
After all, E-Types, Lamborghinis and Ferrari 328/348 were of a similar vein and now of course the few good uns left are appreciating in value, particularly if left original. If we only look one year ahead it is hard to see values much higher than today. But in 10 years time? Who nows and that's my point. We need to get our heads together and collectively make efforts to raise the profile of our lovely cars NOW!!
I know we are only a small number but that's precisely our Unique Selling Point (USP from now on)
It will take more than club meets and tooling around showing the cars in a casula way.
We need to find some city/investor types who are looking at investments of the future and see the FRP as an undiscovered gem.
What do you think all?
Cheers
John Arundell FRP426 and 476