Spyder price range requested

And what about the 912E?

$25k would be a pretty good deal for a buyer with tools and the right attitude.

Thank you, Ed...

OK, a little more info:

The car is from AME, a company that competed with Chamonix in the 1980's by splashing a mold off of a Chamonix and then building their own line of Spyders (got that from @chines1 (Thanks, Carey and Kevin!)   

To answer sales questions:  The owner (He's the second owner) is unable to work on the car for health reasons.  It will be pulled from the parking garage and taken to a local (Metro-Boston) mechanic whom he trusts for clean-up and made ready for sale.  Then, it will be transported to a classic car dealer north of Boston, whom he trusts, to be offered for sale, probably in a month or two.  That same dealer currently has the 912E and will be offering it in a week or two.  I believe that it was driven from Charlestown to the dealer's a week or so ago.

My involvement was removing the windshield (my 356/550 glass replacement experience seems to have preceded me) and possibly installing the new glass when they get it.

If I find out where it will be offered for sale (location and/or website) I will post it and make pricing suggestions to the owner and then I'm done.

Wonder if it would be beneficial just to sell it as it sits?

Perhaps, but I don't have a clue as to 'current state' price.

I mentioned an as-is sale to the owner yesterday, but he wants his guy to check it out for an estimate to get it ready and he'll go from there.  I understand the trade-off between an 'as-is' sale and dumping money into it in hopes of a bigger return, but that can blow up in your face, too, if it doesn't then sell for what you expect.  Imagine my surprise when I found the VIN plate and it didn't say either Beck or Chamonix - And it was from a Brazilian company that I had never heard of!

All I can do is tell him what it is (with help from the Beck Boys) and a very general range of recent prices and he'll take it from there.

Maybe it'll show up on a Mecum Auction as a "Very rare, AME Spyder"  

Spyders on BaT tend to do well. Presentation counts though.

Looks like air cooled later mid-2000 Beck builds are $32-35k so Ed was probably pretty close at $25k.  Lots of rubber needs to be looked at if it sat for 8 years - tires, brakes, fuel system.

Yah think???     

Maybe we could get a photo of the car with "Old Ironsides" and Charlestown Harbor in the background as it was during the Revolution.  Maybe that would sell it?    

Honestly, it is a neighborhood just dripping with history.  We met in late morning at the "Warren Tavern" in Charlestown.  I fully expected to see the ghosts of George Washington and Paul Revere while I was there.  I have decided that the streets of Charlestown are made narrow and winding on purpose to keep the British at a disadvantage if they were ever to return.  Just the "one-way" signs alone should keep them out, or at least the "No parking, street cleaning Xam - Ypm" should do it.

The car owner was an architect who worked on many projects in Charlestown as those buildings were restored over the years for modern use.  It was neat to get his insight on them as we drove past.

Without pictures I'm not much help. Is it 4 lug or wide5? Long or short axle? What gearing in the trans? What brakes? You know, the same stuff you'd ask on a Speedster. I would think a Beck is worth more than this AME knockoff of a knockoff.\

As it sits, I'd say 20k, but without pictures it's a WAG(wild a$$guess).

Thanks, and I know it's a WAG.  The owner is reasonable about it and is thinking in about the same price range after it gets cleaned up.  

It has the usual stuff:  Ghia front disks/rear drums, Wide Fives with 10-slot chromed rims, Stainless Steel center exit exhaust, Spyder seats (deep red) and a hard, aluminum half tonneau on the passenger side (only one I have seen, but I don't get out much).  The hood has a couple of tabs at the front that catch the body flange of the frunk opening, then a pair of 1/4 turn fasteners at the top rear corners to secure it.  Don't know if that is "normal" or unique, but it works well.  

He told me it's a 2,110 and it can keep up with Pearl (which I can't say for any of the "originals" except one), but that's all I know of the engine, other than it's in backwards,  readily turns over and develops oil pressure   

I suppose he'll be digging out his paperwork to answer those detail questions for the sales ad, but that's a month or so off.  First, he has to get it out of the parking garage (with a ceiling clearance at the bottom of the ramps of just over 7' ) so he's working with the garage people and whomever they use to do that and then get it to his wrench.  Remember, he is incapable of doing anything on the car, so that compounds the problem, but he has a few friends helping to make this happen.

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My car was much the same with the exception of new paint  and leather and I paid $20 for it in 2011. Based on what I've seen on BAT the last couple of years, I'd be closer to Wolfgang than Ed an Danny on pricing, especially if he's brokering it through a sports car dealer. 

If if it were mine, I think I'd put it on BAT with a $25K reserve and hope for the best. One very similar went for $39K not too long ago.  

Yeah, this post is almost a year old and prices have gone up. But last year they were dead-on. This car wasn't a Beck, Vintage, or Thunder Ranch. It was a copy of a copy.