For sale in the UK, 1956 100M, may knock a hole in the watch fund - £165,000

Well we can look at the photographs -

 

It's certainly a damn fine motor! Those cross-spoke wheels are really something... Interesting colour too!

 

Hey, they even got the steering wheel on the correct side on this one.

 

Very nice that's the one worth all the money! The 100M were a fairly rare car, nice color combo too, also fairly rare! That's not a bad price for a 100M either, looks completely restored... Any chance of a shot under the bonnet?

 

Here's a link - http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk...ibute4%%&att5=%%__AdditionalEmailAttribute5%%

 

WOW...you could lick the crank case and your tongue wouldn't get dirty!

 

Wouldn't wanna get your tough dirty!!

 

You might it depends on the circumstances!

 

That's true, you never know, could get lucky!

 

Friday night fun started a bit early

 

True! This is my only thrill (sad as that may sound) the missus is out with her lady friends tonight, curry and Jonathan Ross for me! Wait a minute...that's not so bad!

 

I may be putting mine up for sale...well not really "up for sale" per say...there is a very persistent buyer continuing to making very good offers down in Atlanta and it's becoming harder and harder to say no! If he ups it one more time I may Not.

 

had kind of a tough week...sounds pretty good to me!

 

That must be one hard decision to make. I still often think why did I sell my Morgan
Would you move on to something else - a Ford Cortina maybe

 

That would go perfectly with my Helvetia

 

I may move on to something else...but I don't think a Ford Cortina is in my future (great racers though!). I'm not sure I have another full restoration in me...

 

Beautiful sport car. However I am surprised that it could fetch such high price considering : (1) It produces at 10,000 unit, I think rare vintage car produced at below 100 units? (2) The article mention the decent one market price is around GBP 30-40 K. This one offered at GBP 165K. Anything I missed?

 

Yes, its a 100M, AKA “Le Mans” spec, of which just a bit over 600 were made by the factory. Less than half of these are still known to exist.

The M spec cars had numerous high performance modifications mainly to the motor.

The M spec package was also available as a dealer installed option, but these cars don't command the money the factory Ms do.

 

Thanks, that explains a lot.