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Vintage 1969 Fender Mustang With Competition Stripes £1,000 on Gumtree (now gone)

Although I only have a general idea regarding the UK market for vintage Fenders, I think that sounds reasonable.

The only thing is you can't try before you buy

Love the headstock logo.

For comparison my 72 comp stand in LPB from Stew was £850 including hard case and it has no dings through to wood

£1000 is not unfair but not a deal or anything

Mike wrote:For comparison my 72 comp stand in LPB from Stew was £850 including hard case and it has no dings through to wood

£1000 is not unfair but not a deal or anything

Thanks, Mike
I'd probably get more fun from my money out of a new Marauder, but I quite like the idea of another guitar that is still more likely to go up in value than down if I play it and add a few dings & scratches.

Agree with Mike, its nice but not deal of the year. But of course, a new import Mustang would set you back around £700 so from an investment point of view its worth it.
With stuff like this the fret wear is always a deal breaker for me.

given the fact it's orange with a matching headstock, i'd say it's worth a grand, definitely.

yep, looks to be a good one not super minty but really clean, a nice player. def drop 1000 pounds on it. original competition mustangs aren't getting any cheaper with age.

stewart wrote:given the fact it's orange with a matching headstock, i'd say it's worth a grand, definitely.

This. Depends what you want, it's certainly not overpriced.

Older comps with matching headstocks I imagine are going to be the ones that increase in value a lot. I could be wrong though. I haven't seen a lot of US made orange comp stangs. I saw a bunch of Japanese ones while I was in Osaka, but not US ones.

Kurt never played an orange one though.

Does look nice. I've been looking (pointlessly) at this. I think it's probably an OK price. Orange seems a bit more unusual, has a matching headstock, and seems to be in rude health.

For a bit of perspective, I saw a not so clean LPB '69 in a shop for £1600, so a grande doesn't seem so much after all.

if i had a grand in the bank i'd have bought it out from under you dithering old women. it's comp orange.

Mike wrote:Kurt never played an orange one though.

Could always re-spray it. and route it for a humbucker.

Mike wrote:Kurt never played an orange one though.

Meh that doesn't make much of a difference to me.

He had hotrails in his com stang right? That one didn't get routed. Just a TOM added and the bar flipped.

HNB wrote:

Mike wrote:Kurt never played an orange one though.

Meh that doesn't make much of a difference to me.

He had hotrails in his com stang right? That one didn't get routed. Just a TOM added and the bar flipped.

It matters on the market though, everyone here is mad about the orange ones and rightly so as they're pretty and rare but I'd say the market favours LPB

Mike wrote:Kurt never played an orange one though.

Mike wrote:It matters on the market though, everyone here is mad about the orange ones and rightly so as they're pretty and rare but I'd say the market favours LPB

Ah I got it.

any matching headstock vintage mustang in halfway decent condition will move, now or in the future no problems. and gbase is always turning over good examples.

what is more interesting if you search just for completed items "Fender" on ebay, you have to scroll through 4 or 5 pages before you get to anything that acutally sold. generally the bread and butter vintage guitar market is in the toilet, especially Jaguars and Jazzmasters.

I know Mark from OSG had a bit of a job shifting his LPB Compstang with original case, strap and case candy and I think he only got £1k for it in the end on eBay - i.e. <£900 in his hand.

If the seller's a realist you'd have to hope there's a bit of wiggle-room in their asking price. It might shoot up in value within a couple of years, but who can say for sure. I think, given the current climate, that's quite an optimistic price.