RE: £4m classic on the limit...

[BaronVonVaderham]

Great car, superb article, carbo-tanium balls for driving like that but the brown colour isn't pretty. Is that colour original? Would have to be BRG from me even if it is a cliche.

[richb77]

need new underwear....

[dinkel]

BaronVonVaderham said:

Great car, superb article, carbo-tanium balls for driving like that but the brown colour isn't pretty. Is that colour original? Would have to be BRG from me even if it is a cliche.

That colour is superb!

[RichB]

I believe it is the original colour. I remember this car being featured in the classic car mags a few years ago and I believe they used the original paint to colour match the new coat.

[odl21]

rohrl said:

325bhp sounds very optimistic to me. Who supplied that number?

it it slightly. having spoken to norman dewis and bill terry (the premier xk engine builder) that is not realistic from a period 3.8 without modern trickery. its not far off though and if the engine is 'illegal' its possible.

I have a 4.2 in my c-type replica with 345hp which is quite streetable. about 390 is the tops for a 4.2 race engine.

[julian64]

I wonder how much of that car is actually original

[Leithen]

julian64 said:

I wonder how much of that car is actually original

We asked ourselves the same question about this one.



But one presumes "those that know" must be satisfied that enough is original.

[julian64]

Trouble is that those in the know are very few and far between. I have a car on my profile which has fooled quite a lot of people who shouldn't have been fooled, including a specialist in old jaguars at the Jaguars owners club, and a very well known classic Jaguar garage.

It probably helps that my white haired 80 year old father drives it everywhere and often likes to pretend its an original.

Considering at one point in his life he had two XK120's, one of which was an aluminuim bodied racing version which wasn't meant to exist, and a few e-types, he can certainly talk the talk, and thinks its funny when people don't know.

[RichB]

julian64 said:

... likes to pretend its an original. <clip> ... and thinks its funny when people don't know.

Funny but who's the joke on?

[julian64]

RichB said:

julian64 said:

... likes to pretend its an original. <clip> ... and thinks its funny when people don't know.

Funny but who's the joke on?

Quite, but as I said he tends to get away with it because he's old enough to have had experience of the real thing, and has gone to some significant length (because he's an engineer) to make this car look original.

Would you pay 1 million squid for the ops car if you knew the only original part of the car was the plate where the vin had been stamped. Not saying it is mind, but how would you know, furthermore the link to fangio is a paperwork trail worth a million?

[dinkel]

http://www.jdclassics.co.uk/car/244

Stunning.