Series 3 A foot in both camps

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Which is appreciating better

  • 90

    Votes: 3 37.5%
  • Series III SWB

    Votes: 5 62.5%

  • Total voters
    8
Here's the perfect investment; a tax exempt historic 1972 Defender, how rare is that?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-Defender/164272507296?hash=item263f6789a0:g:kfkAAOSwaKFe~drU
That's my point. Once you swap your chassis, axles and transmission and engine, in the eyes of DVLA, it's no longer the 1972 car.
My Defender only had it's 90 chassis replaced with a shortened heavy duty 110, Range Rover axles and a 200TDi engine and box thrown onto and it's on a Q. It's still basically a 90, as opposed to that 'Series 3'. Has anybody spotted a S3 part on it?
Even the doors could be early 90/110! I've got the same on mine.
 
Ha ha! The door tops are the only thing that are from a 72 series, even the door bottoms are the later anti burst type. I ask this every time, how are people getting away with this? What are the DVLA doing?
Not necessarily. When i worked on the motorway the B reg 110 i used to use had the sliding windows and didn't even have a door panel on the inside. Just outer skin and frame.
 
Over time I find it pretty accurate if you only look at the "sold" prices. There is an economic model for auction pricing, the essense is that the true value of an object is the amount 2 people are prepared to pay. This is because the winning bidder may have over paid and so the value is what they can sell for, which is the amount of the loosing bid since that bidder would pay that price to have it. So the value is taken to be the last loosing bid since this is a value that at least 2 people agree on. E-bay uses graded increments so its not always obvious what the loosing bid was but if you drop down a % or 2 from the sold price you won't be far off.
 
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