When selling a car how much value is added with books, tools and jack?

[Mark X]

Whether a car is concours or a daily driver how much added value is there because the car has:

The red vinyl cover maintenance records booklet with first owners name. And the Porsche customer ID plastic card imprinted with first owners name and address.

Red vinyl covered owners manual pouch with owners manual, Blaupunkt radio service manual and booklet.

Complete tool kit and jack.

Thanks.

[boxster03]

IMO
concours all books etc. are expected - dd just makes it easier to sell - little added value

[NeunElf]

Correct toolkits, jacks, and manuals are available. If you have to go out and find all of them for an early 911 you're probably going to spend over $ 3,000 so that's one thing to consider.

Finding the original maintenance booklets is another matter--if they're gone, they're gone. It just so happens I have maintenance books for my 911 but not for my 356A. I can only guess how many roughly 50 year old cars still have those original maintenance booklets. For what it's worth my completely uneducated guess is maybe 10% to 15%. If I'm correct about that, I would have to think a prospective buyer would have a hard time attaching a high value to something he can't find elsewhere.

The four Cs of classic car values are CONDITION, CONDITION, CONDITION, and CONDITION. Classic cars are not commodities and you can't just look up a current market price. If Sloan Cars and Road Scholars each have a perfect '67 911S soft window Targa in slate grey with red leather the deciding factor in price could as easily be which has the lower chassis number or which has a less common radio as which has the original maintenance booklet.

While I don't think you can attach a specific dollar value to the complete trunk and glovebox contents, I agree with boxster03--it could make the sale faster and that could mean closer to the asking price.

[Mark X]

Wow, really appreciate the replies! Thank you.