Would be interesting to know who wrote the spiel too.

You've got to love the spelling.

Verado Green Metallic & Sandelwood !!

Dr Terry

Cerulean is one that normally trips them up. eBay listings are an interesting read on the myriad of different ways people try to spell it, let alone pronounce it....

I am always happy when I see any sale that increases the value of my car but I dont get why this car sold for so much money.
Sure its a survivor and I get that - but 225K ? And its not a nice survivor, its got a few wrong bits and it looks like crap.
So why so much money ?
Any opinion ?

Any car is only worth what someone is prepared to pay, after all. HK327 prices have been quite high of late, with several examples changing hands for around that price. HK327 are far more common than HT GTS350, and to an even greater extent HG350, and both the HT and HG350 are a better car.

Put that price in the context of the Kashmir White/Twilight Blue HT GTS350 that controversially won concours and best restoration at the recent Motorclassica show in Melbourne against a horde of high end cars. The car owes the owner $500k, or so he was telling people at the show, with $400k of that spent on the restoration. That car is far from an accurate restoration. Even the grille GTS badge, for example, is in the wrong place. Maybe it deserved concours, but it was not an accurate restoration within my understanding of the meaning of that word.

When there are people prepared to publicly sling that sort of money around it has to impact the price, at least temporarily.

Deville Blue instead of Deauville Blue is another.

Dare I ask what configuration makes a 'homologation GTS Monaro'
Cheers
Jacko

I have to disagree with that one. I wonder if you've actually seen the car? A glistening, flawless paint job, with plenty of hi fill so the panel lines are almost invisible. It impresses the hell out out of everyone who sees it, but it is not accurate.

Many of the problems with the car are caused by lack of knowledge and consultation, not lack of parts.
For example, the grille badge is incorrectly located, the wheel arch and sill moulds are infill painted, the engine is the wrong colour, the brake booster is shiny gloss black, the inside surface of the floor pan is a vision of gloss black painting perfection, the door gaps have been extensively modified so that they are uniform from top to bottom, the stainless steel moulds have been polished to a mirror finish, etc etc.
There are many more issues of which only a few are due to parts availability.

Does it underwrite the value of other cars? Maybe, but even the owner has conceded that he has spent far too much on the "restoration". It's probably the right job to win an event like Motorclasica with judges not familiar with Monaros, but it would it would not win an event like the Monaro nationals.