This Week on Hagerty Marketplace: Variety, That Spice of Life

Welcome to This Week on Hagerty Marketplace, a recurring recap of the previous week’s most noteworthy cars and significant sales from the Hagerty Marketplace online auctions.

If this week’s selection of vehicles were a Jeopardy! category, it’d be “Potpourri.” A bit of this, a bit of that. Which kind of encapsulates the brilliant variety not only of this hobby, but of online selling platforms. If ancient British prototypes aren’t your thing, hey, maybe German droptops are. Or good ol’ American 4x4s. Whatever your predilections, if you browse the listings long enough, you’ll find what you’re after. Here’s what folks were after this week.

1937 Morgan 4/4 Standard Special Prototype

Sold for $35,417

By the mid-1930s, the Morgan Motor Company was well into its transition from building three-wheeled cyclecars to four-wheeled motorcars. That attempt, the 4/4, would enter production in 1936 and carry on, astonishingly, until 2018. Just a year into production, Morgan lost its engine supply from Coventry Climax, so it turned to Standard Motor Company for a replacement. The car pictured here was the prototype fitted with the first 1267-cc Standard Special engine. It was driven and raced extensively with some success for years by company scion Peter Morgan, before coming to the U.S. to live out a second life in vintage racing. This is a well-documented, well-preserved bit of Brit-car history that sold for the kind of money any ordinary 4/4 roadster in #3 Good condition might.

1985 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet

Sold for $51,895

Few cars are as “Radwood” as Grand Prix White 911 cabriolets. This one, a “Rest of World” Carrera, rather than one originally built for the U.S. market, was imported from Germany to Florida when new, and it has remained there with three owners ever since. With its slightly different credentials, the changes include a more powerful 3.2-liter engine (234 hp vs. 200 hp in U.S. versions), a factory-installed rear spoiler, Euro-specific lighting, and smaller rear bumperettes. Upon import, the metric odometer was changed out for a standard one, which now shows 82,540 miles. This Carrera cabrio is no spring chicken, but service records indicate it has been treated like one. And it sold accordingly, its price falling right between our #3 Good and #2 Excellent valuation. 

1997 Chevrolet Tahoe LT

Sold for $32,367

Vintage Chevy SUVs have been on the radar for some time now, with classic K5 Blazers of the 1970s and ’80s enjoying a steady rise in value in the last decade. Increased interest in newer full-size Chevy SUVs, or Tahoes, if you will, is more recent, with those prices starting to climb in the last four years. While larger four-door models became ubiquitous family haulers in the suburbs, two-doors kept a lower profile. This 29,000-mile Tahoe LT is about as clean as they come, with a great red-over-silver color scheme, shiny newer GM wheels (the originals are included), and a push bar mounted on the front. Many of these workhorse trucks got used up, and it’s only going to get more difficult to find them in this condition. The sale price here reflected that, as it went for strong money, right between our #2 Excellent and #1 Concours valuations.

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