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Originally Posted by The_Laird
Sergey, having very fond memories of our trip around the Lake District (I think) in your car and mine (at the time), as well as reading all your posts about the car, I am horrified to see your beautiful machine so damaged.
But I am curious about the ‘market value’ concept of a car like your pristine D2. Who decides this value? And, for those of us with cherished D2s, what would we consider ‘market value’ to be? We’ve seen very nice D2s advertised at around the £15K mark and many of us (including me) are happy to spend thousands of pounds to keep our cars in shape. So the idea that the ‘market value’ of your car, Sergey, is around £1K seems ludicrous. If you’d put it for sale for £10K, I would have considered it a bargain!
I am very sorry indeed to see such a sorry tale!
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Hi Jim, thanks for this! Great memory, yes. I was still occasionally driving on the incorrect side of the road when we first met!!
Due to change in my lifestyle (less free time and more concentration on career) I won't have enough time to dedicate to D2 (until I retire of course :^).
Since I finished building this D2 the plan was to keep it pretty much forever, only maintaining it properly. But this plan was interrupted by an old gentleman at a car wash...
So I'm now contemplating what to do next.
The best option for the car is re-shelling it properly from a perfect donor.
The only person I trust who can do this is MJ, but it looks like she's dead busy for a year ahead and I'm not sure I can devote enough of my time for this project so I'm thinking of SORNing and conserving the car for a better opportunity in my life to do it... We'll see.
I need to understand how insurance story will unfold in the next few days / weeks and I'll update this thread hopefully people will help with some advice.