"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote


I'll give you another fact to make you weep, Iain. Sometime in the '80s,
the company I worked for swopped 8 working and complete but tatty AKG C12s
for a new pair of Bose 901s. So valued them at about 100 quid each. Wonder
what they'd fetch now? IIRC you can buy them new for about 5000 quid each.


My motorbike dealer friend got 7 quid a ton (scrap value) for *cellar upon
cellar* of old Brit bikes, frames, engines, wheels, spares &c. when he took
over his shop sometime back in the past. He estimated that it was no way
less than a quarter of a million quid's worth at the 'Classic Bike Boom'
prices at time of telling, about 10 years ago.....