Over £18k for a bonnet?

[PaulColeman]

Over £18k for a bonnet... really? That's more than I paid for the whole car!


Has the world officially gone mad or have I missed something?

[mystery type]

or have I missed something?

A zero too many? could have been £1,840. ??

[PaulColeman]

It may be a typo but it's on their website... https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24877/ ... =90&page=4

[malcolm]

Friend of ours had an accident in his series 1 and had to buy a new bonnet. Got it for circa £7k - new, not 2nd hand

[chrisfell]

I bought my car, Retail, for £19,950 in 2003. It was probably really worth less than £15k, but it came with a ‘no quibble’ guarantee. (I quibbled. A lot.)

I noted the price of a bonnet from Martin Robey in the early naughties was £2750, ( I think I saw one in the NEC classic car show one November.) When I replaced mine in 2007, I sold the original, complete with two sets of photographed repairs over a 40 year period, for a grand. Can’t believe inflation has been 1800 % over 13 years. Inflation has not been 1800% over 14 years. Someone is making a lot of profit. Someone else has more money than sense.

[Sarthe72]

Then look at A-frames from E-type Fabs. I bought mine in 2014 for £2,000 I think they are more than double that now.