WAYFARER MARKET REVIEW

WAYFARER UTILITIES weren’t sold new with a V8 engine option but popping the bonnet and finding a 273 staring back shouldn’t put potential buyers off. Nor is it cause for huge leaps in the asking price either. Condition and plenty of it is what drives the values of 1960s Wayfarers. With so many heading off early to the rust farm they did become scarce but never terribly valuable. They still aren’t expensive so waiting around for the right car rather than trying to build one out of a wreck is a wise strategy. Just poking round the cars on display at a Chrysler Club show can reveal well-kept examples with no significant rust that might be on the market. Finding that ‘your’ Valiant comes with a sheaf of service receipts and other history is a bonus that will prove valuable should you resell. There seems to be no preference for manual versions over automatics or vice versa. Cars that as part of a restoration process have undergone a colour change can be less expensive that those that have been kept original. Unless the chosen colour is garish and conflicts wildly with the concept of a conservative 1960s load-carrier, the influence on price will be minimal.