Independent · Before the hammer
Should you bid?Find out before you raise the paddle.
Paste the listing you are watching. We read the write-up, every comment in the thread, the full photograph set and the sales that genuinely compare — then give you a figure to bid and a figure to walk away from, with the reasoning behind both.
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The listing you are watching
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Where the figure comes from
A valuation is only as good as what it rests on, so here is what it rests on.
Sales that actually settled
Not asking prices. We price against comparable cars that changed hands, with the date and the figure each one brought. Where the comparables genuinely do not match, we say so and withhold the number rather than inventing one.
The thread, in full
On a good auction the faults surface in the comments, found by people who own the model. We read every one, and quote the seller's own disclosures back to you verbatim rather than summarising them away.
The photographs, panel by panel
Sills, arches, undertray, panel gaps, the shut lines, what is missing from the set. A listing with no underbody shots is itself a finding, and it is reported as one.
Two ways in
You have either found the car, or you have not.
Analyse a listing
Paste the link. You get a fair-value range anchored to settled sales, the bid to place, the price to walk above, what the thread and the photographs give away, and the faults that generation genuinely has.
Analyse a listingFind me a car
Describe what you are after. We search the live market, open every candidate, read its listing, decode the VIN against the federal record, and come back with five real cars — plus the ones we ruled out, and why.
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Every figure is an estimate produced automatically from public listing data. It is not an appraisal, not an inspection, and not a guarantee of value — and on a car at this money you should still commission a physical inspection before you commit. How a report is made.