Topic: Everybody selling their old, low-mileage CJs?

[Jeffy]

I think you mean agri-jeep

Whoops, you're right!  I used to talk occasionally with an owner of one.

[Jeffy]

the rarest jeep is up for debat if you really get down to it. yes the first 12 or the cj-4, but what about the "seep" (the jeep boat) or "old number one" which still hasn't been found (if it hasn't rusted away!)? there's the budd body proto type or even the ford pygmy is was based on. but those are all "jeep"s not "Jeep"s.

as far as "Jeep" is for rare prodution models, the rarest has got to be the "Hurst" Commando. only 100 built? (god i wish i knew that 5 years ago... i had one ). but ulitamately it comes down to what any idiot will pay. I mean hell earlier this year some guy bought a hemi charger , not even an original, for almost a million. if anybody wants to spen $500k on a jeep, save your money cause i'll sell you the broklyn bridge for only $200k.

 :rant:but that's just my opinion.

Problem with the Hurst Jeep Commando is that it's ugly!  A fully restored Seep will probably get more then a restored GPW but not that much more.  Even a DUKK is pretty cheap and they only made something like a thousand for D-day.  Now you seen DUCK Tours using them.  Although they are changing over to larger custom vehicles.  A T-12 would be pretty rare but a bit too specialized to gain a high price.  There is no real demand for one.  That's one of the problems with Jeeps.  A certain type of buyer has to come up.

Some things aren't meant to be collectible.  Take the 1990-1993 Wrangler Renegade for example.  It's pretty rare but it will probably never become a collector.  You don't see too many people collecting AMC Gremlins or Pacers either.  How about the Ford Pinto?  I there was a mint one that old on Barrett Jacksons that sold for $12,650.

[chrisfranklin]

I'm not saying the Collins Bros guys are not over-pricing their inventory.  If they actually own that CJ, they probably got it for 20K. 

However, Jeffy, I say are seriously undervaluing that zero mile CJs over time, say 20 years, 40 years. 

I know I am an idiot, but if I had the abundant cash in 2027, I -- since I'd be a seriously grizzly, upper middle aged,  big belly dude by then -- would in fact be down to pay $500,000 for an 80 mile CJ that hadn't seen the light of day.  And, I wouldn't be a really rich collector type, either. 

You will look back on this in 2027-2047 and see what I was saying 

     

[chrisfranklin]

This was a comment on CJs in a recent www.TruckTrend.com comparison piece:

"...It was the first in its class, essentially created the niche, and made off-roading a popular hobby in America, and its absence from this story can't be ignored. Finding a stock CJ in good original condition proved impossible."


Ok, so maybe the Truck Trend editorial budget was a little low and they couldn't travel outside California to access a low mileage, stock CJ for the test (Frankly I think this article is half-baked without a CJ in there)

But I don't think stock, low mileage CJs grow on trees despite the fact that 600,000 were made.

[chardrc]

This was a comment on CJs in a recent www.TruckTrend.com comparison piece:

"...It was the first in its class, essentially created the niche, and made off-roading a popular hobby in America, and its absence from this story can't be ignored. Finding a stock CJ in good original condition proved impossible."


Ok, so maybe the Truck Trend editorial budget was a little low and they couldn't travel outside California to access a low mileage, stock CJ for the test (Frankly I think this article is half-baked without a CJ in there)

But I don't think stock, low mileage CJs grow on trees despite the fact that 600,000 were made.

ya but its more like the flat fender cj2a and 3a that started it...aside from the military start.  i just love flatfenders

[neale_rs]

I got a 1947 cj-2a in pretty good shape with only 1800 miles for 1 grand. you honestly think that if i wait 20 years from now im gonna get 100,000 for it. heck no. who would actualy be stupid enough to think a jeep cj with 80 miles on it awesome condition will seriosly be sold for 55,000. there are soo many Cjs out there its not even funny. let put it this way. Do and expirement. look at the prices for plymouth roadrunner superbirds. how many of them are out there and how many are beat up? none are beatup and they are very scarce, but yet they sell for 150,000. so in 20 years will that thing be worth 1,500,000. unless its an all original car driven by a movie star, I would honestly have to say no....

jeep was made to be a cheap durable reliale and capable machine. It does not havre a concept of a cadillac

In 20 years you will probably get about $4000 if you keep it in good shape.  Old jeep prices don't drop any more, they just go up with inflation and maybe a bit more due to increasing scarcity.

[chrisfranklin]

I got a 1947 cj-2a in pretty good shape with only 1800 miles for 1 grand. you honestly think that if i wait 20 years from now im gonna get 100,000 for it. heck no.

Mint, unrestored, never driven and barely seen the light of day as though it were pulled out of some recently discovered cold-war bunker from the 1950's?  Yeah you'd probably see some decent appreciation beyond just inflation over 20-40 years; might even be worth 100,000 or more under the aforementioned conditions.

But, 1800 miles and "pretty good?"  Nah.