General anyone noticed how much UT prices have gone up?

[Chas Uno]

I'm not convinced that prices are genuinely on the up but it's the whole ebay effect, if you'd got there before the guy put it on ebay..... This car is effectively worth £30 scrap value, needs a fair amount of work and money which isn't obvious from the pictures or description and people bid more than the car is worth because they haven't seen it and think it's one of kind or something. Ebay and the internet is great for finding this stuff but people lose their heads over it and bid too much. It like saying the UT is rare, there are 5-6 listed on at the moment and they'll always be more in a few days time so why pay over the odds unless it is a really nice example which you really can't tell based on a couple of pics and a couple of lines of writing. The UT I sold looked nice in the pictures on ebay but underneath it'd had shed loads of welding and the car was covered in knocks....I still sold it for more than twice what I paid for it because of ebay.

There is definitely growing interest in the mk1 Uno's, especially the Turbo and SX models and rust free three door shells. The SX that went for £190 might have seemed a lot, but believe me it was worth it just to get hold of four doors, a tailgate and a bonnet in totally rust free condition! It even had original Fiat mats fitted front and rear. The car needed work, but it wouldn't have taken a lot to get it back on the road and in nice condition.

As for prices, three door mk1's have definitely gone up in the last few years. I bought mine four years ago on Ebay for £46, with 3 days MOT (!), 4 months tax and half a tank of fuel. Of late I've seen a few tidy conditioned base model 45's go for around the £200 mark! Obviously a lot of them are being snapped up by UT owners looking to re-shell rusty examples... Here was one from a couple of months back:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....MEWA:IT&viewitem=&item=230109529241&rd=1&rd=1

And I've seen quite a few others go for similar amounts in the last year.

Regarding the 70SX I went to see (and was considering buying, but not for that price!) I also watched closely and could see a bidding war going on. One of the bidders was located in the midlands as I could see who it was before the bidding went over £100 and the ID's got hidden. Coincidently, the day that the auction was due to end another 70SX appeared on Ebay but without any pictures. It did however come with alloy wheel and spares PLUS a BRAND NEW GEARBOX IN A WOODEN CRATE! This was located in Leicester, not for from the midlands where one of the bidders of the first auction was based. This bidder dropped out of the bidding war for the first 70SX, but on the SAME DAY that the second SX was listed it was suddenly withdrawn from sale.

Put two and two together, and I can bet that the bidder who dropped out of the first auction managed to go and see the second 70SX in the second auction, made an offer and probably got it for peanuts... :bang:

This was the second 70SX auction:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....MEWA:IT&viewitem=&item=180123542878&rd=1&rd=1

Anyway, this isn't the first time interest has been expressed in a mk1 70SX. Someone posted on the forum a while back specifically looking for one, and they managed to fine one too. Growing interest in a model that is now getting very rare.

Hard to believe that a couple of years ago me and Jai manage to get a 70SX with a blown engine for 1p thanks to Ebay! I think those days of cheap mk1's are gone...

 

[oldskoolmk1unoturbo]

I went to see a MK1 uno turbo located about 10 miles away from where i live. guy did want 300 quid for it but is unsure about selling it.

it is however rotten but is good for spares which is what i am interested in it for.

i could imagine it fetching over 500 quid on ebay, but you'd have to be a fool to buy it for that much, the pictures make it look a lot better than it is, engine sounded good though.

 

[CinquePunto]

new tax which is driving the prices to go up...

expect the prices to rise on all <1.4 Turbos

i.e Toyota Starlet Turbo, Punto GT, Uno Turbo etc

 

[Jai]

new tax which is driving the prices to go up

what tax?

 

[Chas Uno]

I went to see a MK1 uno turbo located about 10 miles away from where i live. guy did want 300 quid for it but is unsure about selling it.

it is however rotten but is good for spares which is what i am interested in it for.

i could imagine it fetching over 500 quid on ebay, but you'd have to be a fool to buy it for that much, the pictures make it look a lot better than it is, engine sounded good though.

Where oh where do you keep finding these UT's for little money? £300... plus my good mk1 shell... perfect combination!

 

[oldskoolmk1unoturbo]

Where oh where do you keep finding these UT's for little money? £300... plus my good mk1 shell... perfect combination!

ebay isnt the only place where you can buy uno turbos. there isnt a hundred of two hundred of them left like people always say on forums, thats just how many are taxed and mot'd. there are plently left that havnt been crushed which people still own but there just not on road. and they aint that hard to find,

i might be buying that purple mk1 will just have to wait and see.

 

[thepottleflump]

That's the thing, looks perfectly reasonable car from the picture and I can see the ebay add now, loads of good bits listed and right at the bottom, bad points, has a minor bit of rust easy fix.

Ebay is an easy outlet for cars, and is especially easy to shift low value sheds that at one time you'd be paying people to drag aways by putting up a couple of well taken pictures and being economical with the discription. It attracts a wide audience and people forget the practicalities and legalities of getting a shed home, all too easy to bid and the new rules hiding IDs make it even easier to bid up items with impunity.

 

[CinquePunto]

what tax?

Road fund tax - you know, the little circle of paper you display in the bottom left corner of the windscreen...

£115 for less than a 1.4 litre, £165? over and 4x4's, 2litre+ is like £200/300

 

[Jai]

yeah, but you said "new tax"....the old rules for pre 2001 will still apply to the tubs, esp as both types will fall into the lower £115 category for cars with a capacity of less than 1549cc. so the taxing makes no odds to them whatsoever,

 

[Biz]

There is a MINT D-reg 3 door Uno right round the corner from me sitting next to a MINT Ford Anglia! :bang: #

Both just sitting doing **** all!!

I am tempted to start converting Non-Unos to Turbo with a decent donor!

Not a hard job,

100-300 for a rotton turbo?
same for a Mint shell?

One "new" UT!

 

[distortionrockets]

yeah, but you said "new tax"....the old rules for pre 2001 will still apply to the tubs, esp as both types will fall into the lower £115 category for cars with a capacity of less than 1549cc. so the taxing makes no odds to them whatsoever,

argh my brava is a 1596cc 16v £165!
shoulda kept my uno...£110

 

[Chas Uno]

Bog standard base model mk1 45. Look at the price it's going for!!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....MEWA:IT&viewitem=&item=300115636927&rd=1&rd=1

 

[lewis1641]

i really regret selly my turbo. i bought it about 6 years ago, well i actually swapped it for an awfull kitted mini!

anyway the car needed a new airflow meter and an actuator on the turbo. in my youthfull naiivety i called fiat for prices, **** myself and sold the car for £70. it was taxed, tested and running(albeit using a huge amount of fuel).

it is my biggest car related regrets.

i now have a golf gti trackday car and noticed there are still loads of tatty but solid examples available for a couple of hundred quid. before buying the golf i did look into the ut option but as is being pointed out here, prices are high.

someone mentioned previously there are now only 300 left in the uk. is this accurate or is it like 300 known examples? there's no wonder they are so expensive. i last saw mine in the local scrap yard as i was removing the suspension to put on my mrs old uno!

 

[thepottleflump]

300 was the number registered with the DVLA, there are more than that in total just some/all will not be the road.

MK1 is the one to go for.

 

[lewis1641]

thats not many at all! i feel ashamed to have sold it

 

[thepottleflump]

I think Fiat only sold about 1500 in the UK so 300 left is pretty good really.