nice photo - What's yer question . . . . .







and the price is what your comfortable paying,

or selling your car - that's the current market

on your spot on planet Earth.
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1976 BMW 2002 #2743711(sorry I sold it 12/25/06)
1986 BMW R65 650cc twin 19k miles
1964 BMW R27 250cc single 15K miles
2002 BMW 325xiTouring 29k miles
1984 MERCEDES-BENZ W123 300D Turbodiesel-188k miles fein-DIESEL

guess that could only help if you have a 'Normal type' of insurance (i.e State Farm..ect). if your car was stolen or killed.
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1974 Chamonix 2002 Tii 5spd - Gretchen

My feeling is a top notch tii in today's market is between $12k-$17K. That's what I think a very nice tii would go for on the street in different parts of the country after barganing up/down between the seller and buyer. I'm sure some cars get sold for less and some for slightly more. I myself probably wouldn't pay over $8-$10K for one being to me prices in the mid teens I feel are simply too high right now. There are too many other cars I can buy in that price range I'd rather have.

Yes, I've seen some ebay auctions where they've managed to get a bid slightly higher than that at times, but ebay is not always the real world (as we all know some use ebay for marketing and many car sales don't always go through). Auctions like Barrett-Jackson etc also have added on fees associated with then which raise the prices paid 15% or more as well. As for asking prices, many ask what they spent on their restorations or even more than that, but do they ever get it? That's anyones guess! I think a tii for $43,000 would sit for quite some time before it sold (like maybe years???)!

NADA values are not reliable either as a means to sell or to buy. I truly wonder how they come up with them! If I go by what they say on the cars I own some are valued way over and some way under. I have a good feel for what I can actually sell my cars for, and I don't even bother to look at NADA prices at all. SCM (sports car market newsletter) last years price guide listed tii's at $10,500-$16,500. I feel it isn't too far off still.

WH

I don't know what qualifies "top notch tii". A ground up resto tii done by Werk shop, for example, worths 60K and up. Keith's Stella is probably one of the best examples of tiis in the US. It is probably worth 70K+. If you find a pristine tii with no rust under or around 20K, grab it.