Original Stratos for sale

[catswhiskers]

Dont know if anyone is interested but there's an original Stratos up for auction in December.
Lime green, current owner 20 years, auction estimate £45k - £55k
Details can be found on www.classic-auctions.co.uk
H&H hold classic auctions fairly regularly in Buxton. There's usually a good selection of Ferraris, Mercedes coupes etc. and its usually a good day out.
Does anyone out there recognise or know the car?
I'd be interested to know what it fetches on the day ( not that I'll be bidding, still saving up for the Hawk HF3000 )
One Day !!!!!!!!

Cheers Mick

[omicron]

That will be the Stratos belonging to the late Don Pither. He had his car for a long time.

Andrew

[rutthenut]

There's also a yellow Stratos advertised in Classic & Sportscar this month. Described (with picture) as :

Rare 'no spoiler' version; Ex-Hrabi; owner since 77! Ideal for collection or historic racing; Central London.

Phone number listed, which I won't put in here, plus email contact address as info@stratos4sale.com

Not surprisingly, there is a web site at the url www.stratos4sale.com which has contact details too.

[Stratos]

The yellow car is one of Christian Hrabalek's cars - that's Christian's email address.

All his cars are in fabulous condition.

[John]

The original stratos sold at Buxton by H+H auctions on 4th December was sold for £34,000. I was going to go and have a look (not to bid I hasten to add), but was going to try and get a few photo's for research purposes. Nightshift put paid to that idea though!
:mad:
John.

[Stratos]

Considering it's history, ie owned by Don Pither for so long, I'm quite surprised it went for such a low figure. I had expected this to go for 45K+.

[Chris Jarvis]

Remember to add on 5% of £34,000 plus VAT on the total.

[omicron]

Generally speaking auctions are not good places to sell Lancias. They can be good places to buy Lancias as there are not often many people bidding - although there is little opportunity to test the cars, and auctions can be outlets for cars that are not as good as they appear.

This particular car may have fetched a higher hammer fee if they had gone through one of the top level auction houses such as Bonhams (formerly Brooks) or Christies or Coys - although their fees are correspondingly higher.

Andrew

[Stratos]

John,

Do you know what price Don's Ex-works Alpine went for?

[John]

The ex-works Tiger went for £39,000 +fee.

[Chris Jarvis]

My replica made £13,000 = £15,000+ at Bonhams in 2001.