I read so often on here the variation in the views people have on the valuation of vehicles, so wondered if any or all of you would put a price on this vehicle which I will be selling in May.

1971 AKS400, a local vehicle which I bought last July for 900 euros.

Since that time I have bought the following list of brand new parts for it

2 new front wings
Lower windscreen panel
Bulkhead
2 floors
2 sills
Lower rear panel
Spare wheel cover
Fuel tank cover
2 rear doors
Front bumper
Seat belts

As you can see from the above there has been a few hours of welding done and the whole lot goes off for respray tomorrow. [the paint I have to supply cost 150 euros]

The chassis is fantastic and like new. Have rebuilt the top half of the engine [new rings and full gasket set] also a new clutch.

Still to buy, new seat cover, rubbers etc for bench front seat, windscreen rubber, 4 new tyres.

So what's it worth? By the way I have a price in mind. It will be interesting if anyone is close.

2500

Forgot to add, fee for respray is 1,000 euros.

Give you 850, they're not rare i saw one last year

4500-5000 euro perhaps. A quick check reveals that there have been a few of (seemingly) this standard at around this price in recent French 2cv mags/on Leboncoin. However, there are also some that have been advertised for considerably more, and going off them I could actually say anywhere between 4 and 10k euro!

I don't think that's unreasonable.

When we were looking at vans 18 months ago, there seemed to be a breakpoint for Acads at about €2k. Below that, ratty rubbish. Above that, tarted ratty rubbish. 400s, the breakpoint was similar, but higher - about €3k.

Really nice vans, ones that were actually tempting, were considerably steeper.

A friend of mine in Limousin has one that sounds similar to that description, with perhaps a little more done to it. He did the respray himself though so the final profit is better. He was offered 7k Euro.

6-6,500 pounds

As I have a van myself, my own estimate - £4,500 - is based on what it take to get me to sell my own to someone else.

Mind you, I don't like the shape of AKS400 quite as much as the smaller versions.

My initial thought was about 2,500-3000. I sold one about 3,4 years ago for £1500 . It was in need of a paint job and a bit of engine work but had a solid, original chassis and fairly new floors and sills, looking at the thread i probably let it go a bit cheap then.