Agreed it was top money, but I realised quite early in my search that unless I was very lucky I was going to be paying over the book value as there was so few manual roadsters for sale at the time, even less if I didn't want a black one, and believe me I searched the whole of the UK repeatedly.

Given the summer that we've just had i'm guessing the roadster will remain a desirable purchase for many people and prices should remain strong, the only problem being that we are now entering the traditionally worst time to sell any type of rag top with winter fast approaching, and on the flip side when I bought mine we were entering the traditionally worst time to buy one with summer just around the corner!!