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Your comment is very well put. I have made them a fair  offer, but did not succeed. I will have to wait this one out.
On Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 11:01:03 PM CST, The De Tomaso Forums <alerts@crowdstack.com> wrote:


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  My bet, the loss on such a conversion is -10%...and I mean that as a double negative, I would not disagree that such a conversion actually improves the sale.  We have yet to see that modifications to a Mangusta actually hurt the price, from all that I see the market responds to "condition" and not originality.

  There is no critical concours for the Mangusta, and even for cars that have such the final line is really whatever owner wants. For example, Mercedes by the rule book lose points if not in their original color--and yet, Pebble Beach is full of color changes.

  For more common cars (say, old Corvettes or late 60's Mustangs) its a different story--I think because such cars made in thousands per year, the only way to distinguish "beautiful" from "perfect and beautiful" is to read the date codes on the alternator and sweat over whether the orange peel on the paint is just right...I think Denis made the point that those cars are incredibly, impeccably restored--the difference with a Pebble Beach car is whether the 3000 hours to get there goes on a car that is worth $100K instead of $1 million...

The car in New York (8ma978) is asking for a lot of money, when complete project cars are waiting at BHCC for $180k the reality is that great looking cars selling for over $300k, $350k, etc start to thin out in a hurry (and have a bit of competition). Hope they get their price.

But good for us in the Goose world to not take ourselves toooo seriously...! Most people are just amazed to see a Mangusta, and whether there is yellow cadmium used in the engine bay is not a worry...



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