A successful classic/young car sale requires patience (question of the week)
We are living in the era of automotive history gold diggers, as we read everywhere. So you'd almost have to have your classic or modern classic car snatched out of your hand if you wanted to put it up for sale at some point. But it is not as easy as it seems to sell even well-preserved vehicles that have been looked after for a long time.
But how long does it really take to sell an old car, we wanted to know from our readers in the" question of the week" .
Quick sales within a week are the exception. Only 4% of the 238 survey participants were able to sell their car in such a short period of time.
However, around two thirds (70%) took two or more months to find a new owner for their classic car. 21% did it in two to three months, 23% in four to six months, 19% took one to two years and 7% even waited over two years to find the right owner. Patience was really needed!
However, a tenth (10%) considered themselves lucky to have sold the car within two to four weeks.
We were surprised by the high proportion of survey participants who could not live with any of the answers. However, as we then discovered, we were missing the answer "seven to 12 months" on the one hand, and an answer that the car could not be sold at all on the other. In any case, 13% stated that none of the proposed answers matched their situation.
Irrespective of this lapse, for which we apologize, it must be said that in many cases selling classic cars obviously requires considerably more patience than one would expect given the euphoria that still prevails.
Here are the results of the survey in graphic form:
The next question of the week is already underway, asking whether it is quickly becoming too hot for our classic/youngtimer vehicles today.
And of course you can still read all the previous results of the "Questions of the Week" in the corresponding topic channel.
