Value your Excel if you dare!

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Re: Value your Excel if you dare!

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I can see the link as well Stu. Just data for SORN/taxed, is that right? Where is the Elite data!!?? :D

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Edit: Just seen sheet 1 as well.
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Lotus-e-Clan wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 19:11
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In Sheet1 (prices), are these sold values, asking prices, or a mixture?
A mixture. Generally the asking price.
"A" indicates an auction with guide price. Not always getting the hammer price.
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Sorry, nowt showing for me.
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Good and interesting set of data Stu. Great that you are tracking these Sales.
Interesting stuff
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Lotus-e-Clan wrote:
Wed Dec 22, 2021 19:11
Would non-subscribers have to download the spreadsheet rather than seeing it in the browser?
Anybody with the link "should" be able to view the spreadsheet as it is Excel online.

It is also an editable link, so anyone can edit the spreadsheet as well. Luckily OneDrive does keep a record of changes, so if someone cocks it up, you can revert back to last good version - as I have had to do a couple of times.

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aah ha, if I use the laptop I can see it, couldnt on the phone for some reason. Seeing as the reason is probably incompetence I need a course on spreadsheets to understand sheet two, but great stuff Stu.

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Update on insured agreed value.

Currently at £12000.

This is to ensure I have at least a chance to get it repaired and not scrapped should the worst happen.
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Update here too. £14500 from a recent 2022 Club Lotus valuation, up from £9500 in 2015.
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Looking through this I see I commented on this in 2018. In 2020 not long before I moved premises, I had a local antiques dealer around who just happened to clap eyes on Ethel in the corner of the garage. He bid a solid £40k.

I still own Ethel.

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Club lotus valuation just back, was £10000 about 5 years ago, now £20,000. Gulp. Alan Morgan explained that it is a value of the car to replace it to its current spec. Insurer also pleased by adding another £50 to the policy !
Looks like everyone needs a new valuation.

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bash wrote:
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Ps, all mods declared, v8, injection, big brakes, non standard aircon.
Did you include the driver? :D
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Ahh, left the loose nut off the description. 😁
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Scanning the shelves of my local library ( AKA High St Newsagent with a very common surname) today and saw a very thorough "magazine" from Octane detailing Classic car values.
For once, I thought it very realistic with it's estimates ( unlike several monthly mag's that still struggle to place a 5 figure sum even on a mint car!).

Elite:
Excellent : £18000
Good : £10000
Average : £4000
Project : £1500

Eclat
Excellent : £15000
Good : £ 9000
Average & project as Elite.

Excel
Excellent : £ 16500
Good : £12000
Average : £5000
Project £2000

Esprit : Excellent only for now - rest is in the mag - Go buy if your that interested :lol: .
S1 : £ 85K
S2 : £55K
Turbo : £75K + £10 K for Essex
Later cars : £ 35K

IMO the average and project prices are a little on the low side, but the better car prices seen to reflect what supposedly good cars have been advertised for over the last couple of years ( Slightly less than the prices we see advertised).

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Blimey - if someone offered me £75k for my Esprit they can have it.

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Practical Classic's price guide in their current (Dec 2023) issue has the Excel on:
Concours - £9,000
Good (well-presented with no faults) - £6,500
Average (Capable of regular use, with MOT, but needing work) - £2,850
Rough (needing a rebuild) - £1,350

These have been consistently way too low for a number of years in this magazine. The Lotus section claims to have been updated in this latest Price Guide too, but maybe Russ Smith (who compiles it) skipped the Excel...
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