Hi, I am new to this forum and was looking for some advice for selling my 1976 Scorpion. Is "Bring A Trailer" a good site to sell the Scorpion? I have owned it for over 40 years and I am getting too old to play with it anymore. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
Welcome to the forum. There is a great bunch of owners here many of whom are active in keeping or getting their cars going. Lancia may not be on the masthead but there are good folks here willing to assist.
The answer is yes, BAT would be an ideal place to sell it assuming the following:
If the car is in good overall shape; has documentation (which being the same owner for forty years I would assume);
- Able to provide a cogent story about your ownership for BAT with good specification info and do a good job of editing the copy by a BAT Editor who knows nothing about your car or Lancias in general.
- You are willing to take lots of pics (over a hundred is normal of all the parts of the car);
- Shoot a video of a cold start,
- A video of driving the car con brio,
- A video of a drive by;
- And a thick skin with willingness to answer lots of sometimes inane and sometimes asinine questions.
BAT has gone from look at this car you will need to bring home on a trailer to an auction site which can bring surprising money for cars some of which really should not be changing hands for the money they are. For those who have kept their cars up, can show them well and suffer the auction week, you will do well.
The Scorpion has done well there price wise, not as well overall as the X’s have, but fewer people know the Scorpion/Monte Carlo (and there are fewer of them) aside from the usual old saws about reliability, lack of power due to emissions and front brake locking.
If you, like many owners of Scorpions, have deleted the servo and or gone to FI, a 2.0l and or twin DCNFs and the car is well cared for and largely original, you will do very well indeed.
So yes, like all things which have a good payoff, it does require work. The pain will be over quickly, you will have a worldwide audience and the car will sell and sell for a good price on BAT.
The thing I have noticed, the more willing you are to interact during the auction and the better prep you have done of fixing minor picking points on the car the better you will do. If you or someone you know is a good photographer, all the better. If yours is a really good car it would likely be worth paying a photographer to shoot your car to show it in the best possible light. Shots of underneath, if the car is in good shape, will stop many questions aside from the most picayune commenters who may or may not know what they are talking about.
You can look at the prices and read the various auction play by play here:
https://bringatrailer.com/lancia/scorpion/
This one sold this week at 26k:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1978-lancia-montecarlo-euro/
Good luck with the sale, you own the other car I really want in my garage, unfortunately the world being what it is right now (I bought my cars when they were cheap cast offs), its unlikely to happen for me.