But of course, Escorts were plentiful in their day, unlike the Capri, of which there were only barely 15,000 examples assembled in Australia!

cosworthfreak
The cost of a concours resto seems to keep going up, as do the 'project' cars you start with and the parts you need to find. Any high quality restored car with extensive use of NOS parts/restored original parts, and with everything done (as hotboost says), is going to easily cost you $30-40k depending on what you start with.

+1 to this, as I know this first hand with my resto the costs keep adding up and you say to yourself, oh well I have already spent $$ amount what is another few dollars

The redbook prices aren't anything to go by, it's how much the next person wants it, look at the baby boomers paying silly money for GT Falcons a while back. I'm looking for a new project at the moment and a V6 capri is high on the list but 10k+ for a project seems a bit much. I wouldn't be able to afford an anorak to go with it... Maybe a GT Cortina instead...
Cheers Drew...

If I was going to buy a restorer I would prefer a total mess because most of the resto costs are the same no matter what.  New trim is the same no matter what cond the base is, paint is the same, elect is the same, engine is the same, suspension is the same etc.  The only major difference in cost is rust repair and I would rather see what I am in for than buy a car with ok paint to find its full of bog...like so many are.  So I would take the one with the vinyl roof over the gold one and have a large discount on final restored cost.  I think that's why the in between cond cars struggle to sell.  Too expensive as a base to fix up, and not nice enough to cruise around in, and buyers just looking at the numbers with no emotional investment.  The exchange rate tanking isn't helping resto costs either.

So, it seems that no-one wants to part with $19500 for the Grecian Gold e-Bay GT V/6. It can't be just because it's located in south-western Victoria at Portland, can it?