I'm not sure that I entirely agree with the premise that cabs, in the UK at least, are rare / hard to find.
Think it's a case of UK collectors seeing loads of cabs for sale on US eBay. The point that some UK collectors seem to fail to grasp is that a cab for sale in New York is probably is probably out of the question for a potential buyer in California.
On the flip side, because the UK is so small, any cab that comes up for sale in the UK will be within daily travelling distance.
In any 12 month period most of the classics will come up for sale in the UK - either on eBay UK, or through the UK/European collector forums.
2 differences!
you get hoarders who just jump on every cab they can get their hands on,they stack them up that they cant get to the others at the back,most wont/dont even work,everyday joe blogs dont stand a chance or dont get a shout in cos of these people.
then theres the people who have a few to a dozen cabs,that actualy get used.
too many people hold onto their cabs this is why they rarely come up,they have to get hit financialy for them to part with cabs,then there a few up for sale,then its quiet.
i wouldnt call 1 or 2 dedicated calssics coming up from time to time means that all is good here in uk,the buying scene is crap,to point where joe blogs dosnt have choice or cabs in the sweet zone price wise.
look at ebay.co.uk at any one given time and look at ebay.com and think about size and population saturation of the usa and uk.considering that there is actualy a high saturation of people in uk the for sale scene is sad and thats a generous statement.
generic cab land galore,well i suppose if thats a persons thing cool for them.
i think in reality i will never ever see my holy grail up for sale in this country this year,i never saw 1 last year,its galaga!!!!!!!
so if this year gos by and i dont see a galaga on lets say ebay,then thats 2 years that ebay never had a galaga cab on!thats sums uk up right to a tee,when you go looking for certain cabs nearly all the time you wont find them,it means you got to ask and pay silly money in most cases.
