It has been a trend for quite a long time: Top pieces go for top prices. And then of course we think of the exotics in our classic world, Pebble Beach, the MECC and other places where classic lovers don't come straight into old jeans and with mourning edges under their nails.
These kind of masterpieces usually only come to the fore at prestigious events and exhibitions.
Or they spend their long, long lives in museums.
That a Goliath Minibus would one day also receive that honor was not thought about for a long time.
But it is a fact that fewer Goliaths, Transits and Taunus buses have survived than Ferrari's, Lambo's, Rollers and Bentleys.
That is picked up by De Markt at some point ...
The copy on the photo is the only copy that was still registered in Germany. The latest technical checklist of the luxury bus only mentions 'A1'tjes'.
The car, the van is therefore technically and optically in new condition.
The previous owner renounced it for age reasons.
And while the purchase negotiations were still ongoing, the Goliath already found a new home.
A German museum.
And that at Goliath they would never have dared to dream that their equivalent of VW's Sambabus would go modal + a few times?
The museum found the asking price realistic.
And the very old former owner was very happy that his pride ended up in a museum.
Roy Bolks from Potomac Classics was the third party in the process, also a satisfied party.