Pirelli Hawk for Sale

Well it's the weekend... up early....really would have liked a lie in....but that's life.....BBC 1 news is on the telly... Pick up laptop and go to Club website.... then read this.... so I wondered what the price fluctuation would look like on a graph....... well it looks like we missed some Intra Day price Fluctuations..... anyway just for fun here it is....... I'm going to have a coffee now...LOL

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Phil,

I can see two text tables OK, descriptions but no numbers, but no graph,

Mark

Hi Mark... somehow the graph didn't come thro...I put it down to my skill with computors !........... There are no numbers on the above charts but it does how how many times he looked at / altered the price as is states Description of modification "Advertised price"........ he was clearly tormented getting the price right !

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Doesn't matter what happens to this car now - where it ends up, or who it goes to - it'll always be called "The Yoyo Car" and there'll always be rumours concerning what the price actually was!! (....although if it ends up being someone on here and they get it for £40K I bet we hear about it...) :)

The price isn't right until it sells.

Unless it goes less than 69k Norm maybe the Boomerang car as it always returns to 69k ��

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Originally Posted by Normb666

(....although if it ends up being someone on here and they get it for £40K I bet we hear about it...) :)

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That's funny Norm, £40k is what I had in mind, or £45k if you really want it and are going to keep it for a long time.
That's in the U.K. though. If it was already converted to LHD and successfully registered in the EU, then the asking price is about right?

Chris, agreed - £40-45K seems about right for an older Hawk with a 12V. GAZ dampers are fine but definitely not "the business", and the gearlever looks awful (even if it actually works fine, you can't extol the car's excellent build qualities with that thing plonked in the middle). As you say, prob worth a bit more in the EU with LHD, but I think the extra costs that come with Brexit have given potential buyers pause. Anyway, as Mark's said, it's worth whatever it sells for. Might have a bit more credibility with a better-written ad too.

Your's for £99,995

Here

The Phoenix arises again

Did a YoYo ever reach the stratosphere before?

Only down the road from me, I may go and take a peak and offer 25K just to bring him back to earth.

Now says......LHD AND IT WOULD BE £140,000 - £170,000...

Hmmm. Do we all need to get converting:confused:

Im finding this absolutely baffling. Does his other stock prices keep fluctuating?

I'm bored with it now. I don't understand why the constantly-fluctuating price, or what message it's supposed to send to potential buyers. As for "won't be around long"....well I think that was blown out of the water a while back....

Bored with this now. Can someone buy this car please? Perhaps if we deleted this thread so nobody who hasn't looked will realise what a joke this has become?

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Originally Posted by Guy Mayers

Bored with this now. Can someone buy this car please? Perhaps if we deleted this thread so nobody who hasn't looked will realise what a joke this has become?

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Better still,all of us arrange to view it and offer £60k first then each subsequent person offer £5k less than the previous offer!

It's a £45k car.

Because I'd rather have this:
Supercharged
or:
A very nice classic Ferrari

I can't see how that Pirelli Hawk could be worth more?

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It's a £45k car.

I can't see how that Pirelli Hawk could be worth more?

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Unless the way its registered will make a difference for an overseas buyer, I'd say you were spot on Chris.
Surely anyone who's following this car would have detected the bulls**t by now?!

Chris, I fully agree. Unless you really, really, really want an old Strat rep with a sub-optimal motor, and therefore not very quick these days, why would you not go for a low mileage example of one of the finest sports cars you can buy? (...apart from the parts prices and the awkward servicing, that is), or if classics are your thing, that 308 GT4? I'm not knocking the Hawk, by the way, but back in the real world....!

And now the ebay listing features photos of other cars!
Including yours Guy!

Thank you John. I've emailed the seller and asked him to amend the listing, deleting pictures of my car. I notice a picture of John Butterworth's car and another red Gp4 car in there too but not sure if that's original or replica!
Guy

Just thought you should know Guy.
You do have to question what the motive for including those pics is? If I was buying I'd want to see pictures of the car itself. Pretty sparce on any detail shots of the car for sale!
If he believed his own hype then some detailed shots would be handy.
The whole episode has become a joke a good while ago.

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Just thought you should know Guy.
You do have to question what the motive for including those pics is? If I was buying I'd want to see pictures of the car itself. Pretty sparce on any detail shots of the car for sale!

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The photo of Guy's car has now gone, but the photo of John Butterfield's Pirelli Hawk remains.
There are some smaller photos of the car for sale, lower down on the listing John.

Thanks Chris - saved me checking! It's a little sad that this topic is now longer than some build threads!;)

Its now a pound:confused:

No doubt he'll have an "anonymous buyer" waiting in the wings, to bump the price up to something unrealistic. Expect it to be sold, then "relisted due to time waster". :rolleyes:

Edit: And. . . .it's gone. LOL.
Edit edit: Sorry gents, my mistake, I thought it was relisted on ebay. Seems it's on gumtree now for a pound, and "POA" on carandclassic

Will someone please go and buy the thing, and put us all out of his misery??

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Will someone please go and buy the thing, and put us all out of his misery??

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Lend us a quid Guvn'r..................................

Seems this same place has a MG Maestro Turbo for sale,don't care what you think of them but they are pretty rare,but it seems the ad is doing the rounds in BLARG and MG circles and the floor pan is shot!

Not presenting his business well is he!

Seen it. £14000? What was the price last week? Yes it's a rare car but not MOT'd since 2006! That'll need some fettling to get it back on the road and reliable!

I think he's a closet collector with a wife telling him to shift some stuff. Of course he prices it so nobody will buy it....

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I think he's a closet collector with a wife telling him to shift some stuff. Of course he prices it so nobody will buy it....

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In that case Guy his business model is perfect!

Maybe we should organize a road trip down to look at it, and take a few pics of this 99.9% Rep?
Show him just how rare they really are. If nothing else its a reason do drive yours...

Now the plain red foreign registered car photographed in the ad......... I may give £80k for that..?

Soooo tempted to list my car for £170k...... until I realised that the advert has changed slightly ad doesn't say a LHD car would be worth that sort of money anymore.

On the other hand, I wonder how much he'd offer me in Px?

Now £79 266... also it's now "been built by the Best in the Business "............ sorry Craig !

Thought the new price was interesting though..... must have found some different keys on his keyboard.................. didn't see the £266 coming tho'

This is just hilarious, absolutely brilliant, you couldn't write it, someone speak to this Jason chap & help him out, he needs a manager.

Seriously though, having the right product & struggling so much is sad to watch.

With this one it's time to put a £50,000 reserve on it and start the auction at £5,000 to get the ball rolling. Or keep it and stop advertising it for a year.

Guy, it won't need a year because "BE IN NO DOUBT THIS CAR IS A TRUE BARGAIN AND WONT BE AROUND FOR LONG WILL BE SNAPPED UP VERY QUICKLY BECAUSE OF ITS ABSOLUTE RARETY..!!!"

Been for sale for at least 4 months that I'm aware of. I wonder how far we can stretch the insinuation of the phrase "WONT BE AROUND FOR LONG"? - Won't be around for looonnng?

Also, an interesting fact is that Won’t is the correct way to contract will not. Wont is a type of behaviour that is specific to a person. It’s also the wrong way to spell won’t. It's a rarety that people know the definition of the word wont. Sorry, I meant to say rarity. :P

Edit: I've just read what I've typed and thought "stop being a cock", but it's early, and I haven't woken up properly yet. To quote my girlfriend; "sometimes you're a real pain until you've had a coffee!".

Just off to make a coffee. . .

All fair comment.
His problem now is that to anyone actually knowing anything about Stratos and replicas, as most serious buyers surely do, he has shot his credibility to pieces, leaving him the only option of selling to somebody impulse buying.

Just gone 4 months now, since the first post of this thread.

Unfortunately I cant help feeling that it's had other repercussions, too. I was quoted £90k yesterday, for a factory built STR. I do love the shape of the Stratos, but 90K puts it firmly in competition with a Brand New Porsche Cayman/Boxster 4.0L GTS, or numerous second owner convertible Lamborghinis and Ferraris and their associated development, heritage, parts and servicing networks.