Landie88

Yes. I'm sure you're correct.  I'll keep my eyes open to see if it turns up on eBay or the usual classic car for sale sites over here and post the link on here if I see it 🙂
 
Always very interesting to understand the buyers motivation....
stick it back online to try to make a quick profit? try not to spend money on it and get it back on the road as-is for a bit of fun and then sell it on further down the line - but, you're gonna have to spend some money unless you're happy to risk spending hours for a recovery truck to turn up that's big enough to get you home break it for spares, but apart from the engine and trans, I can't see much demand for the other parts over here unless the plan is to sell and ship the bits globally run it round as a hack? - OK, it's tax and MoT exempt so apart from fuel it's cheap to own, but it's too much money invested to have as a hack restore it? possibly, but there's plenty of other US V8's around over here you could buy and classic owners are not fazed by big motors that are LHD - only their wives are !! 🙂 My motivations were...
It's a V8 - I really want a V8 and for what I was prepared to go to (£5K), I might get one 🙂 It was RHD so my wife would (might?) drive it I could hopefully appease her by selling my Volvo 940 estate (which she hates) for something else she might hate less 🙂 It would be a talking point up at our local pub! The things we do as classic car enthusiasts, eh?  Life would be easier if we could put our obsessions to bed and all drive round in EV's (God forbid)!!   Cheers   Graham

Yes. I'm sure you're correct.  I'll keep my eyes open to see if it turns up on eBay or the usual classic car for sale sites over here and post the link on here if I see it 🙂
 
Always very interesting to understand the buyers motivation....
stick it back online to try to make a quick profit? try not to spend money on it and get it back on the road as-is for a bit of fun and then sell it on further down the line - but, you're gonna have to spend some money unless you're happy to risk spending hours for a recovery truck to turn up that's big enough to get you home break it for spares, but apart from the engine and trans, I can't see much demand for the other parts over here unless the plan is to sell and ship the bits globally run it round as a hack? - OK, it's tax and MoT exempt so apart from fuel it's cheap to own, but it's too much money invested to have as a hack restore it? possibly, but there's plenty of other US V8's around over here you could buy and classic owners are not fazed by big motors that are LHD - only their wives are !! 🙂 My motivations were...
It's a V8 - I really want a V8 and for what I was prepared to go to (£5K), I might get one 🙂 It was RHD so my wife would (might?) drive it I could hopefully appease her by selling my Volvo 940 estate (which she hates) for something else she might hate less 🙂 It would be a talking point up at our local pub! The things we do as classic car enthusiasts, eh?  Life would be easier if we could put our obsessions to bed and all drive round in EV's (God forbid)!!   Cheers   Graham

Yes. I'm sure you're correct.  I'll keep my eyes open to see if it turns up on eBay or the usual classic car for sale sites over here and post the link on here if I see it 🙂
 
Always very interesting to understand the buyers motivation....
stick it back online to try to make a quick profit? try not to spend money on it and get it back on the road as-is for a bit of fun and then sell it on further down the line - but, you're gonna have to spend some money unless you're happy to risk spending hours for a recovery truck to turn up that's big enough to get you home break it for spares, but apart from the engine and trans, I can't see much demand for the other parts over here unless the plan is to sell and ship the bits globally run it round as a hack? - OK, it's tax and MoT exempt so apart from fuel it's cheap to own, but it's too much money invested to have as a hack restore it? possibly, but there's plenty of other US V8's around over here you could buy and classic owners are not fazed by big motors that are LHD - only their wives are !! 🙂 My motivations were...
It's a V8 - I really want a V8 and for what I was prepared to go to (£5K), I might get one 🙂 It was RHD so my wife would (might?) drive it I could hopefully appease her by selling my Volvo 940 estate (which she hates) for something else she might hate less 🙂 It would be a talking point up at our local pub! The things we do as classic car enthusiasts, eh?  Life would be easier if we could put our obsessions to bed and all drive round in EV's (God forbid)!!   Cheers   Graham

Yes, the website crashed about 15 minutes in ;-).
 
It went for £7,550 plus 12% buyers premium (with 20% VAT added to the buyers premium).  That brought the total sale price up to around £8,500.
 
I thought it was too much TBH.  It will have needed at least £2,500 spending on it to get it properly back on the road, perhaps also with a few cosmetics jobs added into this cost.
 
It will be interesting to see where it turns up.  I'm half expecting to see it on ebay ;-).
 
If someone was thinking of buying it and exporting it to Oz, it would cost around £2,500 to get it from the UK to the other side of the port in Syndney.
 
Cheers
 
Graham

Hi guys.  Thanks very much for all your replies.  I've learnt a load of stuff from you and you've been really helpful.  Current bid price is now £4K, so we'll see what happens with the bidding over the next few days.  Maybe someone is thinking of buying it and shipping it back home to Oz ;-).
 
Cheers
 
Graham

Nah what I mean is if the engine is matching to chassis, value of said engine goes up stupidly. Otherwise it's just a V8-swapped wagon like mine (very easy to do on a Ford).

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Xy still had 302 windsors at the beginning it the 302 Cleveland wasn't ready for production until later on

i would assume that the engine (worn out old tech v8) would be worth 5% of that car's value.. 
in Australia i'd expect to see that wagon for sale for $20,000 and that engine would be $1000 at the most.