Hmmm yes but the enthusiasts were already informed and now the merely speculative may be . Obviously then no members would aid exporting our rare cars then . No names mentioned
There's a dilemma here! I think prices are going to go up, just not the the Weiner level - and there are lots of crazy prices out there already for our types of cars.
However, anyone who does not sell for the highest price to whoever comes along to buy their car is leaving themselves open to someone else doing that after they buy the car from them
Despite a couple of ludicrous offers, my schmitt sits in the garage, where it has been since last taxed in 1999, and has just been moved 20 miles to its new home. I paid £200 for it and could have sold a few times in the past couple of years for £8-9,000. Have I been tempted? No!! It isn't for sale, nor is it likely to be for sale - but if it was, it would be advertised (as a non runner, needing a restoration) for a five figure sum. Would I care who bought it? yes, I would, but it would be going where I would get most money for it.
IN the past, my two Goggo coupes were imported into the UK, and reexported to Italy some fifteen years later, the Mochet was imported and a Berkeley was exported as payment for it. My land Rover Dormobile was sold to a German and now resides in Switzerland. It isn't difficult to buy or sell a car abroad!
Here are some here that may tempt you
Mochet Velocar 1600 Euros
http://www.leboncoin.fr/equipement_auto/434227637.htm?ca=1_sA CM 125 3000 Euros
http://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/401076835.htm?ca=1_sMicrocar Tom Car 750 Euros
http://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/355690547.htm?ca=1_sThere's a Rovin for sale there too just now, and interesting micros come up all the time.
In the case of this sale, a huge premium was paid, as it was in 1997, for a car from the Bruce Weiner collection. The cars will jump up in value and a tidy looking roadworthy Messerschmitt will be above the £15k mark now, with restored examples already for sale at a cost greater than some of the lesser Weiner cars. Do I care? No! Course not, after all, I already own one and it isn't for sale.
Would I buy one now - definitely not - just in the same way as I wish I had bought a 60s Porsche 912 when they could be had for £4-6000, or a Citroen DS when they could be bought for a grand, or wish I hadn't sold my Vauxhall PA Crestas when I did. You can still buy cheap and have a great fun car. It just won't be a Messerschmitt, an Isetta or even a Heinkel.