Thread: What are isuzu county's worth these days?

Racq Insurance was referring to one of the trade guides, Glass's or Red Book or similar.

Where there is little sales history through reporting dealers or auction houses, as is the case with Countys being traded mostly amongst the faithful, the trade guides usually consider the vehicle to be a twenty+ year old car of limited appeal and thus limited value.

A guide I used to subscribe to years ago would say about some makes and models that there was insufficent data on which to set a value and to use your own experience and discretion.

Whilst the owner may have a different view, I would not pay $14000 for one unless it was in A+ condition (fresh full restoration) and superbly equipped.

It's just my view, but I think that a good condition County Isuzu shouldn't be parted with for less that 15k, people often misjudge what they are worth simply because they havn't seen many around.
My custom 90 Isuzu wouldn't leave me for less than 25K, some may say this is stupid but that's what it would take for me to sell my baby, so if I was trying to sell that's what they would have to pay to get it.
Since the market is so niche then the advantage is in your hands......how much will it take for some one to buy your rig , not what will it take for some one to buy it.
The market is controled by the sellers not the buyers. Ask any real estate agent.

i looked for about 8 months before i found mine. its a V8 county converted to turbo isuzu with 210,000km on the body/running gear and engine was totally rebuilt within the last 50,000km with recipts and all. body is in ok condition and the rear crossmember is rusting but repairable. it has a steel winchbar / sidesteps / scrub bars. other than that its standard.

i payed $9,000 in febuary unseen and 1500km away. on the road for under $10,000 and i think i got a great deal.

Originally Posted by Larns

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The market is controled by the sellers not the buyers. Ask any real estate agent.

I'm not sure that cars and real estate are the same. But with a very thin market like this, I don't think that you can say the market is controlled by the seller or the buyer. In economics terms there isn't really a "market", there is a series of individual sales, with the price of each one controlled by whether the seller needs to sell or the buyer to buy more urgently.

(And my County is simply not for sale, because I know darned well it would be virtually impossible to get a replacement, no matter how much I got for it! (although I suppose by the time we got to six figures I would weaken))

John

Originally Posted by Larns

The market is controled by the sellers not the buyers. Ask any real estate agent.

Why would you ask a real estate agent an economics question? Most of them can only find their car because it's got the massive "open home" flag stuck to it.

When people need to sell, the buyers have the power.
When people don't need to sell, the sellers have the power. The real estate markets worldwide are mostly running in the former situation right now.

Thanks for all the replies I will get back to you all as soon as I can, and I have had some very generous offers of help and I thank you all for those.
I am hoping to get a safety cert soon and should be in a position to sell once that is sorted.
Weeds I am in Taringa and if you want to have a look thats fine.
The consensus so far seems to be 5-15k so I guess I'll hope for something in the middle. I don't want to give it away I need to recover some money. If I don't get any reasonable offers I will probably have to consider removing the winch and maybe a few accessories and sell them separately tho I don't really want to. I will put some pics up tomorrow so you can all have a look.
I believe in supporting other landy people so I will offer it for sale on this site first then theres a chance that it will be bought by and looked after by another landy fanatic.

Cheers
Luke

Originally Posted by rovercare

Yours isn;t the one painted in hammerton is it?

could be... you know some of the history? if so, a PM would be appreciated!!

Originally Posted by EchiDna

could be... you know some of the history? if so, a PM would be appreciated!!

I could do