Come on, Guy, have you misplaced your rose-tinted specs?
I think us lot in the SEC are too close to the cars, and what it takes to build one etc., to see them as others do. We're still looking at them like we did 10, 15 years ago... we need to step back a bit and see the bigger, up-to-date picture. A "real" Stratos is now a highly-desirable and very expensive car. And a Hawk is seen as being the next best thing by many people out there, so £36K is a bargain in comparison (only 10% of the genuine article!). Also, you only have to look at the prices of other classics, where you need to spend £40K and upwards to get into anything really interesting (sorry to owners of MGBs and the like, but you know what I mean). Any registration issues can be sorted if necessary, given the car's history, so if you think about it, it should have fetched more - probably only held back by the need for recommissioning work... well that's my take on it anyhow.
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