Have you noticed that the amount of coupes on ebay are getting less!!

I go on weekly and there used to be at least 40 to 60 for sale.

Only about 14 this week 3 of those are for repairs!
Lads you are going to have to stop breaking them and fixing em up!

Am I just being paranoid or has anyone else noticed too!

I've noticed this too.

Its as rare as the dodo.

Odd cause i've seen 5 in the past week and a half! Which is unusual for me!

Though looking online for them, they're hard to come by decent ones only very few all others are worst for wear!

And is it me or are the prices going up?

Either way people must be holding on to them and somethings going on!

Reckon is because Coupe values (in common with all used cars) have gone down so no one wants to sell unless they have to.
But I'm sure I'll be shouted down by people here..

the cars are over 10yrs old, lots have been smashed, scrapped, rusted out, unloved.......

typical car ownership for the masses

Eventually,in the not too distant future,a well looked after coupe will be worth a packet.
Have a look at the TR range.
My mate is after a tax exempt TR6 and it is going to cost a bundle.
Be the same with coupes....eventually I hope.
I am in for the long haul this time so I don't care either way.

I'm in for the long haul also, just in the process of restoring my coupe. Only a few more weeks then it'll be done! They are a thing of beauty....

I've been here 7 years and I've heard that line time and time again since the day I joined. I hope you're right, I really do, but I can't see it in the next decade at the very least. Numbers are dwindling at a fair pace but there are still too many around being bought by people who either can't afford or can't be bothered to look after them and just want to do 0-60 in 6 seconds and 155mph for £1200.

When all the ones with neons underneath, ironing boards bolted to their bootlids and bleed valves screwed shut have finally been scrapped then values will start to rise, but I wouldn't expect anything meteoric. The Coupé's biggest problem is badge snobbery. Triumph, whilst viewed as utter crap in their final days were seen as a sportscar and prestige manufacturer in their hayday. It's the same with Alfa Romeo, BMW, Jaguar, etc. Some of you may be clinging on to the idea that clean MkI and MkII Golf GTis are now climbing in value and they're "only" a VolksWagen, but the mintest of these are only fetching £4-5k and most are over a decade older than any Coupé. It is possible to find the occasional FIAT 124 Coupé with an asking price around £10k, but these are 30+ years old and will have cost their owner many times that to keep on the road in a tidy condition.

The sad fact of the matter is the Coupé has always been a secret held by people who can see past the badge. The secret has been spilled to a few people who can only see the performance figures on paper and the small asking price, but over time as they kill ever increasing numbers and as the car gets older they'll find something else to blow up instead, my guess (and hope) is the Astra Coupé Turbo.

Nicely put Brewster, I have an X1-9 that is in a similar situation too.
The prices of X1-9's doesn't seem to rise and yet they get broken
more and more and numbers are dwindling the same. Good examples
are few and far between and tin worm takes the rest. It was never a
very fast car so never really got chav'd up. Mine is a Gran Finale that
has had the uno turbo lump fitted and hopefully it may be worth a bit
in the future. It's been garaged for about three years now as I'm
running the cooupe.

I looked at my first TR6 in 1977. It was going for just over £2k, so I had to give it a miss. You can get a very good TR6 for £10k now. An £8k increase over 33 years (given the drop in value of the pound) doesn@t represent a stunning investment.

I bought my TR6 (admittedly over the odds) 5 years ago. It hasn't budged in value since.

I'd never buy a car as an investment. Buy it cause you love it! I've always loved Fiats and the badge never bothered me.
It was the fact that they were different from the norm.....
They are more common obviously nowadays but its all stemmed from my Dad buying an Alfa Giulietta in '82 when eveyone else had Fords, Talbots, BL...etc etc....

it's pretty obvious numbers are dwindling when you start with a finite amount and factor in crashes etc. the point is whether they become classic or not, and my view is they will become classic but NOT see any significant increase in intrinsic values and certainly not as any sort of investment. only my opinion, but i'm right...

Quite right Proccy - I've said it before and I'll say it again.....What else can you get for £5k with those looks, noise, performance, style etc.....Nothing IMO

What was the original number imported??

I reckon in 10 years time a mint plus will still only fetch 5k-7k the ragged ones will still be around the 2k-3k mark.

I wont be retiring anytime soon when (and if) I come to sell my car.

The club has the numbers but there are about 5000 left. factor in breakdowns, crashes, scrappage scheme and people that break them and I would have thought anywhere between 200 and 500 are removed each year. More so because no one has the money to maintain them.

Mmmm, thanks, nice new wheels by the way.

Looking at it from a glass half full point of view...

The Ferrari Dino wasn't marketed as a Ferrari at the time in Europe, had a 195 BHP FIAT engine, beautiful lines etc.

Around £120k would buy a good one.

It really depends how desirable a certain car is, going back a few years and Mk1/Mk2 Escorts were changing hands for maybe £2-3k for good examples, now they are changing hands for £10k upwards.

Why, because the rough ones have died, the good ones are collectable and the classic rally circuit still wants good shells for racing. Even the later Escorts Mk3/4 are going up in price, I've seen an early RS Turbo advertised at £15k recently.

The big increase has been in US Muscle, try getting a decent Mustang or Charger in the UK, prices have trebbled in the last 15 years with cars advertised at £45k. In the 1990s people were paying £3k with them shipped over from the US.

I'm just trying to sell a Reliant Scimitar at the moment that belonged to an Uncle who died recently, despite being a "classic" Scimitar values are very very low and his solicitor valued a 1 owner GTE at £1000.

What, I wonder, is the lowest mileage, mint condition, well looked after Coupe in the country and how much would it be worth?

I have had my excellent condition, low milewage coupe for around 5 months and am loving it while I save for a brera this time next year, but if I could find a absolute original showroom coupe I may be swayed (for a while at least).

My coop is far from mint condition but is only just about to tick over to 60k miles. Sadly it was at 48k when i bought it a year ago and i'll be doing about 25k miles in it this coming year so it wont be low milage for much longer

FreshAyrs 16v has done less than 10k from new and is up for sale for less than £4k

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Again depends on how badly a buyer wants a particular car and rarity......Dino's were 'only £40k odd 10 years ago.
Esprit S1's are now fetching over £20k for minters....

Not really a good example, it has been for sale for over a year!!

Its a good example of a low mileage, mint original car as spookone commented about and the price its been up for - whether someone wants it or not is a different matter!

Anyone know why it hasnt sold?

Seems quite reasonable for a 10K car - if I had seen it 5 months ago I would have been very interested (would have had to replace the seats for leather though).

Good clean cars regardless of what they are always going to bring the best money for the marque. I doubt the coupe will be worth loads. At least not in my lifetime.

coupes can make more being broken than selling as a whole must be one of the reasons the numbers are dwindling.
Paul

Cos its too expensive!

I would have paid 4k for it.

Whatever people say there are very few really good condition ones around - I looked at loads over a 6 month period and even when they said excellent condition - they usually wernt and any decent ones I saw were £3.5k plus

Agreed - I still think £5-£6 for a mint car is giving up a bargain given the performance and style......
What else is there?

Maybe a GTV6 but they are too heavy on fuel......
Integrales' are at least £10k for an EVO 1....