I've not seen it linked from the forum, but had spotted it on the internet. One thing that jumped out at me was the last line saying you can buy a very nice early Renault 4 for £1250. I thought I wish I'd seen that article last month when I bought one for twice that! Expecting at least another £500 to get it working properly and a lot of hours. Still much cheaper than restoring the one I had.
Gordini will surely have set me back £3000 on parts and materials even without the 2000 hours work by the time it's finished. So that'll be £50,000 in total if I had found a cheap garage that would work to exacting standards.
So probably only worth £700 according to Practically Wrong Magazine as it's unoriginal. (But I'm not accepting offers).
Oddly enough Derek from Renospeed brought up exactly the same point this morning after Practical Classics said exactly the same thing in their article about Mrs Renospeed's car in their November issue.
Fortunately cars are snapped up on the forum for much more than this, but it would be a shame for potential good owners to be put off by this mis-information, or for nice cars to be scrapped for the sake of a few hundred because they are regarded as not worth repairing.
So onto "Clementine's Campaign for fair Renault 4 pricing". I might start gathering evidence and emailing - see if we can't beat the price for R10s in those price guides.
