Brawn GP auctioning off old Honda F1 cars

[CNR]

this looks like brawn will get more money back
http://www.classiccar.co.nz/news/790...-honda-f1-cars

Historic race cars, scale 1:1 show cars and a range of items from the team’s collection are amongst the lots on offer. The Formula One cars to be sold date from 2001 to 2006 and cover the ownership periods of the team by British American Tobacco and Honda Motor Company. The cars have been driven by top drivers including former World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello.
The race and show cars will be in rolling chassis form (without engines or other ancillaries) and estimates are expected to range from £7,000 - £22,000. In addition, up to 100 lots of memorabilia will be sold including race overalls, component spares and merchandise.

[ioan]

Why don't they sell the cars with engine et all?!
They could get much more money for them and they do not need old engines anymore anyway.

Look at Ferrari, they sell lmost all F1 cars more than a couple of years old, and make good money out of it, not 22.000/chassis.

[Sleeper]

^Because Honda own all the engines and not the team.

[gloomyDAY]

They're selling the 2007 chassis?

I assume the owner will buy, burn, and sell the smoldering footage on DVDs.

[leopard]

Perhaps engine and chassis were prepared separately, there are only cars without engine to be auctioned off.

There isn't stock of car with engine available, Villeneuve crashed them out all in accident.

[ioan]

^Because Honda own all the engines and not the team.

Even the used ones?! What are they going to do with them?!

[Knock-on]

Even the used ones?! What are they going to do with them?!

I would have thought they wouldn't want to relinquish their intellectual property.

This way collectors can purchase a car for show or one of the companies that allow you to drive in a F1 car can stick an engine in.

[ioan]

I would have thought they wouldn't want to relinquish their intellectual property.

There is nothing intellectually interesting about the worse F1 engine in the field.

This way collectors can purchase a car for show or one of the companies that allow you to drive in a F1 car can stick an engine in.

Usually serious collectors collect the real thing, not a copy/replica or a stripped down version.

[Knock-on]

Usually serious collectors collect the real thing, not a copy/replica or a stripped down version.

Well, I should imagine the "joke" collectors will be happy then

[ioan]

Well, I should imagine the "joke" collectors will be happy then

They are always happy!