Thread: Do any of the Perenties hold value to collectors?

Yep. Some people would see the rarer variants to be something worth preserving.
Mind you, they're your vehicles, you do as you wish.
My experience is, later down the track, the more original a car, the greater the resale value on your original investment. That's not to say you will make a profit, more that you will suffer less of a loss.

Thanks Mick,

I was planning on mainly using them just to move bee-hives around ect... The re-sale doesn't worry me as there aren't any other vehicles available on the market that meet my requirements of being cheap hose out ranch style vehicles. But one of the senior commanders was going to be heavily modified and given to my old man for launching his boat and as a bit of beach buggy with the roof removed roll cage fitted maybe an engine upgrade, modern dash ect... Do you think it would possibly interest anyone to do a trade of a senior commander for a soft-top perentie of some variant as restoring them wasn't really what I had in mind and a soft-top still meets my requirements perfectly just with two less doors...

I reckon you'd be able to sell the Senior Commander and get a GS and have a few dollars in your pocket.
If I remember right, a Senior Commander is a four door. If I remember right, they were getting over $10k at the auctions. What are the GS variants getting at auction? $6k?

Well, I'll upset a few LR types. I don't consider Land Rovers to be collector cars. Maybe a few individual ones with custom bodywork, or one owned/used by notable persons, or took part in significant events.

They are just a work horse of no great technical merit, mass produced, and relatively cheap when new.

I remember wagons in good nic going for over $20k with fees & a wreck going for $7 or $8k.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Well, I'll upset a few LR types. I don't consider Land Rovers to be collector cars. Maybe a few individual ones with custom bodywork, or one owned/used by notable persons, or took part in significant events.

Well, yeah, goes for all things.
The thing is, 110Lizared is asking about one of eleven built. A Veyron is more common. A Gunbuggy is more common. An Australian delivered 101 is more common.
Given that a lot of those eleven will be butchered anyway regardless of any advice given, If I had one, I'd be squirreling it away somewhere.
Of note, people are paying way more for Australian delivered 101s than the ADF sold them for, and to get an umolested one today is a very rare thing.

Yeah mine are incomplete vehicles that's why I bought them as they were going to modified anyway... All the running gear is there they run nice just missing some interior bits, doors and other easy to find bits head lights ect. One was bought for 4k one was bought for 6k....

Brian almost every car and thing that is collectible was the same at some stage look at 67-71 ford falcon's mass produced family sedans now incredibly collectible. The military jeeps in America same story now incredibly collectible... Either way I don't mind was just curious being as they only made 11 it seems and don't want to destroy something that holds value to certain people... Be interesting to hear some other opinions then I'll decide if I'll try to sell or swap them but Being as they are incomplete might not be worth it???

As stated - your vehicle you can do what you want with it. However I would see if someone wants to swap a good registered GS for one, and/or make sure any mods can be reversed in case they become valuable later...