I live in the Model T world, too, and I have been surprised in the last few months how quickly Model T's are selling! To be sure, the over-priced common body styles ('26-27 Coupes, Tudors) are slower to move, but the others are advertised for a few days before the owner posts that the car has been sold pending receipt of payment. You NEVER used to see activity like that in Model T website classified ad sections! Perhaps because the Mode T's are less expensive than Model A's (except the brass cars) partially explains this phenomenon. More guys have $5000 in their pockets to spend than $9500 on an antique car that their wives probably don't want their husbands to buy anyway. You get a lot more car for your money when you buy a Model A. That's indisputable. But staring at laying a few long yards in green, the lower price of admission to the antique car world via a Model T is mighty appealing to the faint of heart. And from what I can tell from the buyers, they are aged souls who are delving into antiques cars late in life. Good and bad there. Nice to see SOMEONE buying our cars, yet they aren't young enough to continue the hobby into the future.
Having said all this, certain Model A's will always command a higher price and attract more potential buyers than other body styles, assuming the prices are not ridiculous. A 1929 Cabriolet - even with the incorrect color, un-pin striped and 19" wheels - should still bring at least in the $15,000+ range. This is a "hot" body style among collectors because of the rarity @ only about 16,000 units produced in 1929 out of almost 2,000,000 Model A's that rolled off the assembly line that year. That's only about .08%!!! Also, the fact that it is a convertible with roll-up windows makes the Cabriolet a highly desirable all-weather great touring car. The rumble seat can be either a positive (mostly for first-time Model A owners, who have heard fabled stories about them) or a negative (for the inconvenience/difficulty of entry and egress, plus safety concerns). All in all, though, I feel "Wingski" can make a fairly quick sale at a decent price if he stays in the $15,000-18,500 range. Any asking price above that and this car should be made more authentic and mechanically trouble-free, which if I have been reading "Wingski's" postings requesting mechanical advice, apparently is not the case. Unless these mechanical gremlins are addressed and repaired, a fairer value "as is" asking price would be about $15,00-16,500, in my humble Cabriolet-owning and Cabriolet-restoring opinion.
Marshall, early 1929 Cabriolet
