RHD 914, what's value of a rhd 914 Options

[9146-racer]

Hi, I haven't been on here for ages, sorry to have missed you all.
I have just been reading an article on the RHD Crayford cars and really would appreciate a value for one.
My car is a 1969 Crayford, in fact I understand it to be the first one ever.

I've owned it for about 30 years and now am considering parting with it, but what's it worth?

[9146-racer]

The script and badge were not origanally fitted to the rear my car by Crayfords
Ian

[horizontally-opposed]

The script and badge were not origanally fitted to the rear my car by Crayfords
Ian

Another thing that's part of its story now.

I really hope the car can stay in the UK, and that it goes to someone who appreciates it and keeps it original with a functional restoration (attend to what's obvious, nothing more). I like the look of the car as you've kept it, including the color, wheels, and badging.

I am sure some will disagree, and that's ok, but I love your story with it—and thank you for preserving this piece these last 30 years.

Pete

[wonkipop]

The script and badge were not origanally fitted to the rear my car by Crayfords
Ian

Another thing that's part of its story now.

I really hope the car can stay in the UK, and that it goes to someone who appreciates it and keeps it original with a functional restoration (attend to what's obvious, nothing more). I like the look of the car as you've kept it, including the color, wheels, and badging.

I am sure some will disagree, and that's ok, but I love your story with it—and thank you for preserving this piece these last 30 years.

Pete

i agree. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

there is a certain point where the industrial object gets - well for want of a better word - gets looked at self consciously. i don't mean to sound high faluten - i'm not/or maybe i am.
but you just kind of keep them at that point is what i reckon is the right attitude.

i'm a bit dubious about restorations back to points in time. because..... how can that ever be real anyway.

it would be nice if it could stay in the uk.
i can appreciate its history - given the way australia used to be so attached (in an awful way) to britain, the queen, all that dead colonial hoo hah. the 914 is all around the time of the common market and britain finally having to cut its last ties with its far east remnants of an empire, which no longer existed in any meaningful economic way.

the crayfords 914s are fascinating because in the 1970s it was the only way you were going to get one in aus. the distributor was a no no on them ever coming in here and wanted nothing to do with anyone who had one, whatever way it arrived, apart from the two 6s he had brought in.

the fact that only 2 of those crayfords cars ever got on the roads down here tells you how difficult it was.

must seem pretty funny to americans.
i still remember being in chicago in 88 and seeing so many 914s still on the road, everywhere. yet they were probably one of the most exotic cars ever on australian roads. its a funny old world.

but the fact that the first crayfords car could still exist is astounding.

and contrary to some views that think they were some kind of illegitmate butcher job.
they weren't. crayfords went to a lot of trouble to get them right --- its not some backyard hack operation, they had to put them through a legitimate engineering certification exercise, and whatever else the brits might be, they sure knew how to run a hard core bureaucracy back then in terms of approvals.

you could not buy a car and then take it to crayfords. oh no. you had to order the car legit through a certain porsche dealer in the uk and then it had to go to crayfords and then come back. it was all an attempt to do it properly and in a quality controlled environment - up to scratch. to make it work economically the factory would have had to give the distributor in the uk and crayfords a good price on the raw wholesale product.
but they did not. the numbers were not there for a porsche for the masses in the colonies of the fading british empire. it just did not compute. but america. yep.
there was still a snob barrier but it was not as impenetrable.

somewhere i have a copy of the crayfords engineering approval certificate that was supplied to all owners of the converted cars.