1963 Viscount/Valiant we think!!! For Sale.

[firefighter]

G'day D G

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[Franklin1]

G'day Diana, and welcome to the forum! ;D

The Moderators will probably move this thread to the For Sale section, so look for it there in future.

Your van certainly looks like a Valiant. On the front drawbar just next to the jockey wheel somewhere, there should be a chassis number welded there. It will most likely start with the letter 'B' followed by some numbers, but recently we've seen a couple of Valiants with an 'A'-series chassis number, so yours might be the same.

I have a hunch your van might actually be from 1963. It has the cladding profile on the lower side walls that was introduced in 1963, but more importantly it has the straight windows, rather than the sloping windows that Valiants started getting at the end of 1963. The chassis number will help to confirm the year of manufacture.

Price? It's something we shy away from talking about on the forum these days. There are far too many variables involved in putting a price on a van. I've watched a van get listed on ebay 3 times, and the maximum bids varied by 30% over the 3 listings. How can a van be so wildly different in price in such a short time?! But, that's how it is with these vans.

The best advice I can give you is to pluck a ridiculous figure out of the air and list the van for sale on a free listing website. One, you're not wasting money on advertising a van at a price you know is ridiculous, and Two, you'll quickly find out what the market thinks of your price (by getting no responses). Then, you can progressively reduce the price until you start to get genuine enquiries (as opposed to the scammer text messages, and the people who text you to say they've only got $300 to spend on a van and 7 kids to feed, so would you take that? )

That method obviously takes some time, so if time is not necessarily available, you have to go to Plan B, which is to edit the listing on a daily basis and lower the price daily by a regular amount. People are on the lookout for these vans all over the place (you only have to look at some of the For Sale listings on this forum to see how people suddenly come out of the woodwork and ask for details about a listed van), so you'll get quick feedback once your price hits the "sweet spot" for the market.

Hope this helps,

cheers,
Al.