Otis, the main monetary criteria for the sales we make are what jingles in the register...so to speak. To wit: I just had a quick glance of three Panteras on that sight: An 'average' Haggarty valuation of a chrome bumper sale would produce 63k. Gosh, that's about 80 GRAND off our last chrome bumper sale at 149k. Almost commensurate with the Mecum Kissimmee George Bacardi red '72 we sold at 143k a year ago, same auction!
Next, 1974 GTS: Average to nice condition, 94k. Really. You couldn't buy any '74 GTS at that number for a long time. How far is that from our most recent 179k recent sale??? They missed that one by over 85 grand.
Finally the Grand-Daddy of 'em all, the 5-Steel. They list an '86 @ buck 40. $140k for a car we sold at $279k. That's a gigantic football field away from $140k.
I can take you further back to Mecum Kissimmee once again, years ago we sold the black 5-/Steel Florida car for $220k PLUS 10% Mecum fees bringing it to 250k!
Haggarty used to scour the internet for recent sales at live auction(s), recent purchases, ebay sold items, even called us for recent sale numbers some time back. Just thinking our loud, perhaps the insurance valuations are to 'protect companies' from higher pay-outs? I don't know. I'll leave that to you to ponder.
My supposition is their basing values on incomplete information.
Being one.... if the last if not ~the last~ DeTomaso selling Dealers left in the universe, I don't have time for conjecture. My objective is keep the marque alive along as possible. Sales figures show we're doin' a good job of that.