Having read this thread I saw people already pointed out that acquiring price car = 1 collector point for every full thousand Credits value.
But very recently a person by user name "Badg3rman" on Twitch wrote something on Nate Lupson's stream that caught my interest.
He said that " a new engine for a car costs 25% of a car's value and that New Body costs 125% of a car's value"
After doing some research on this, I can tell that the actual numbers are:
New Engine - 50% of a car's value
New Body - 120% of a car's value
(when value : 120 x 100 = decimal number you round up the 0,5)
Using the numbers above I was able to check the following prize car's value:
Camaro Z28 '69 - 82,200 Credits
(new engine: 41,100 / new body 98,640)
If someone has an engine swap they should be able to verify that it' s retail value is 50% of a new car it comes from.
And if this is the case we should be able to determine the value of 787B and so on based on engine retail values.
regards
MadMax
That would work to set the "new car" value of (2 of the 3) prize cars or engine-swap donor cars that have yet to appear in the UCD or Hagerty's in the last month-plus, but there are a couple of problems. First, there is the mileage discount for UCD vehicles, which varies with both the vehicle and the mileage.
For example, take the 1969 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible (C3). The 32,500 Cr. new engine/78,000 Cr. new body would suggest a 65,000 Cr. "new car" price. The two instances where it has been in the UCD have been at a rather substantial discount to that - the menu-book special, with 31,085 miles and available while one was working on menu books 27-30, cost 52,900 Cr., while a 59,251-mile example available only to reviewers (it was sold out on 3/2) cost 47,300 Cr.
Second, it doesn't quite hold true for all of the Hagerty's vehicles, even those where one can buy a new engine or body. One cannot buy a new engine for the 1987 Audi Sport quattro S1 Pikes Peak, for example. The half-price engine rule does apply to, say, the 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 I won (the 129,500 Cr. engine is half the 259,000 Cr. Hagerty's price and the 310,800 Cr. body is 1.2 times the Hagerty's price), but not the 1945 Jeep Willys MB. The 13,900 Cr. engine/33,360 Cr. body would suggest a 27,800 Cr. price, but the Hagerty's price was 100,000 Cr. during the 12/17 state of play video.
