Lock up you 240k's!

Today i had the unfortunate experience of "rising c110 value and desirability syndrome." I awoke this morning to find myself with an unexpected and unspecific sense of optimism, and coincidentally, id planned to make a real attack on the local classifieds paper, rising at a chirpy (for me) 8am.

Within seconds of purchasing said paper i was scouring the two-thousand dollar or less section, hoping to find a bargain c110 just waiting for a good home. Suddenly my eyes became transfixed. There it was, a one owner, auto coupe for $900 ono. The answer to my early optimism now lay before me. Quickly I jumped on the telephone and contacted the owner. Not home till 4pm, and ive got two others inspecting the car then, he said. Just my bloody luck, work doesnt finish till six.

Throughout my day i ponder and hope for the possibility that the car does not move. I arrive home, with baited breath and the contact number memorised, only to hear the phrase on the other end of the phone that i had been dreading all day. "Sorry mate, its gone..." Dejected, I began an inquiry into the conditions of the 'k's sale. "A couple of Afghanis were going to strip it and ship it off to the middle east." My heart sunk. Is this the outlook for the c110 in this country, I wondered...

I believe he stated it was a coupe when he was reciting the classified.

This is beginning to sound like the problem they've had in the UK with so many of their Datsuns being auctioned off or stolen then shipped to Africa.

That enterprise was lucrative; tons of Datsuns have been siphoned out of the UK.

Some savvy entrepeneur is probably reading this thread right now and thinking "Wow, I could make a bit of cash by picking up one of these 240K's cheap here in Oz and shipping it to my uncle Akhmed who'd sell it for a considerable profit back home."

can somebody PLEASE delete this thread then!! we don't want to give them ideas!

I believe he stated it was a coupe when he was reciting the classified.

I cut an pasted the classified ad into a previous post, nowhere does it say its a coupe, or a 4 door.

You're not alone down there. It's happening here in the U.S. also.

My low milage 83 280ZX was bought by a guy who promptly shipped it off to Kuwait.

The horse has bolted but...I think youre right craig, i was caught in the heat of the moment and theres no specific evidence it was a coupe - and I didnt ask. Maybe that will allow us to sleep a little easier.

However, if indeed it wasnt a coupe, doesnt that just exemplify the demand for 'whatever c110 is available'?

Yeah I dont think they mind whether its a hardtop or sedan in Kuwait.

arent they all hardtop? both the 2dr and 4dr ones

Hardtop is generally used to describe a 2 door car, same as coupe.

(I just got bored with saying coupe all the time.)

Some sellers have zero patience...

A couple months ago a friend found a perfect daily driven early two headlight Alfa GTV in the classifieds for US$5000. He called the owner immediately, inquired about the condition, was convinced and told him he would come over ASAP as soon as he had stopped by the bank to retrieve said funds. Total elapsed time door to door was about an hour.

He gets there, no GTV. The owner had in the meantime sold it to someone that lived even closer and had litterally just picked it up....

If you can't even make a verbal agreement with the seller when you tell them you will be over in one hour with cash what can you do?....

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If I was selling a car, and had a couple of intereted buyers, i wouldnt sell it to the first person that saw it. I'd give all the people a chance to look at it and see who had the best offer.

arent they all hardtop? both the 2dr and 4dr ones

No. Hardtop basically means pillarless - ie there is no pillar between the front and rear side windows. The 240K 2-door is technically a hardtop, not a coupe. The 4-door is a sedan, but you can have a 4-door hardtop.

For example, the Cedric in Japan came in 2-door hardtop, 4-door hardtop and 4-door sedan.

Hardtop is generally used to describe a 2 door car, same as coupe.

(I just got bored with saying coupe all the time.)

Not wanting to hijack this thread but of interest to many.

The SAE Standard J1100 definition of a coupé is a fixed-roof automobile with less than 33 ft³ (0.93 m³, 934.6 L) of rear interior volume [note that the number of doors is not mentioned or even relevant].

Calculated rear interior volume in a C110 two-door is considerably larger so technically it is not a coupé.

Using the terminology of it's era (still applicable really) a two-door sedan without pillars was a hardtop, with pillars it is just a two-door sedan.

So, a 240K 2-door is really a hardtop