Junkyard Find: Two Etienne Aigner Golfs Down, 1,459 To Go
According to VWVortex, 1,461 Etienne Aigner Edition 1991 Golf Cabrios were sold in North America. I found one in a Northern California junkyard last year, and now here’s another. You’d think such an exclusive, one-year-only Golf would have legions of collectors driving the values well above scrap price, but the junkyard evidence shows otherwise.
I found only one Etienne Aigner Golf for sale on Craigslist, and the seller wants a maybe-not-so-realistic $2,900 for it.
Once again, we learn that partnerships between fashion houses and automobile makers, whether we’re talking about Oleg Cassini and AMC or Cartier and Ford, don’t translate into long-term— or even immediate— value for the automobile makers. How about other branding partnerships? Forget Apple or Google— I mean, of course, a Lemmy Kilmister Edition Aston Martin Vantage!
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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As odd as it seems for a "collectible" car to be scrapped like this, it happens more often than one would think. Many people who own such cars haven't bought them for their rarity, the car just happened to be available when they were looking for one. An old high-school friend is an example. He had a nasty-looking 1968 Dart 2-door hardtop with a foot-tall rusty homemade roof rack on it. The fact that it was a GTS with a 383 engine didn't matter to him. I remember him complaining when he sold it for $150 that the buyer had been unhappy that the Torqueflite transmission was going out. And no, I sure as hell didn't know he'd wanted to sell it - I'd have been there with cash in my hand.
I have one, is in mexico , guadalajara, interested write orghi_@hotmail.es has california license . or call 001 3331173908 cell phone, speak spanish. :D tank´s