Not sure who determines what "market value " is ?? Its what a willing, able buyer is ready to hand you in cash. Not what some auction house, dealer , or Ebay says. No two cars are exactly alike or have an exact history that might make it more or less valuable to a given buyer. JMHO
It's what the seller says it is. If you don't like the price, go find another one.
Remember the "barn find" CSX32oo Cobra? It went for over a million at auction. Who is going to sell at less then auction price?
Sure, beat me, kick me, degrade me, just give me the money pal. It's not me that's weeping, it's you smart ass.
If it is what the seller says it is, no wonder ebay has sooooo many cars that do not sell. I have said this many times. If you want to do the auction gig, "List it for $1.00 starting bid with no reserve, what it sells for is market value." OR "List it with a 10 million reserve, open the bid at $1.00, it will not sell and you can see what the market value is on your car at that particular time."
ALL of YOUR arguments are just camouflage and distraction. You are using the wrong data.
Wherever that car is for sale, however it is for sale, if you want it YOU need to pay enough for the seller to let it go. PERIOD.
The Universe is full of possibilities. Yet we as mortals need to deal with probabilities.
Call probabilities the likeliness for success if you choose, that's just semantics.
The LIKELINESS of you being successful of buying the car with the characteristics that you listed for $80,000 when the seller is asking $150,000, is very low to the extent of it being non-existent.
EVEN the poor wretched soul, who set herself on fire in suicide over it, who had the doctor's Daytonna Coupe, got $2.5 million for it and she had absolutely no idea what it was. Is this who Tony is looking to find and being generous at offering $80?
WHAT A TOTAL EMBARRASSMENT TO EVERYONE INVOLVED FOR A KNOWLEDGEABLE PERSON TO POST THAT WANTED AD HERE OF ALL PLACES! But then time and time again his posts PROVE who he is. That's for all to see. I'm not getting into that again.
It is true that there is someone who will beat the odds and win the big Power Ball but I haven't seen any "Shelby's" available in that kind of a sale and for only a buck too.
Is it presumptuous of me to presume that is what you are willing to pay. Absolutely but the general suggestion in this "discussion" is that a number around $80,000 is it.
IF you actually find "your car" I WILL bet VERY HEAVILY that you paid much closer to "market" (or going rate) then you did to $80k.
My GUESS, which is worth a pile of beans to Navy credits, is that it is around $125,000.
Not that anyone cares what I think, but I would define "market value" as the general PERCEIVED value.
Now not to change the subject but the current Cobra buyer (originals not continuation cars) is that the higher the sale prices go, the better the investment is.
There is definitely at least a trickle down effect on other "genuine Shelby cars", but the that thinking is not lost on a '66 GT350.