Big collection of British Classics for sale
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Estimate seems high even in these rarified times though…...
Estimate seems high even in these rarified times though…...
Mike Hailwoods 1961 E Type..... Anyone know any more about this Jag ??
I wasn't aware that "Mike The Bike" owned an E, certainly not from new, so guessing if he did own one he bought it when it was a few years old.
From my ageing memory I'm pretty sure John Surtees bought one new ( a cream FHCoupe ) in late 1961, imeadiately complaining about the budget Shockabsorbers.
Re this dentist guys £ value of his collection, seems £ ott to me too and how many of these cars have been "properly" / correctly restored.....
I wasn't aware that "Mike The Bike" owned an E, certainly not from new, so guessing if he did own one he bought it when it was a few years old.
From my ageing memory I'm pretty sure John Surtees bought one new ( a cream FHCoupe ) in late 1961, imeadiately complaining about the budget Shockabsorbers.
Re this dentist guys £ value of his collection, seems £ ott to me too and how many of these cars have been "properly" / correctly restored.....
Vipers said:
POORCARDEALER said:
Massive exaggeration in the collections value
Guess an expert has valued them!neutral 3 said:
Mike Hailwoods 1961 E Type..... Anyone know any more about this Jag ??
I wasn't aware that "Mike The Bike" owned an E, certainly not from new, so guessing if he did own one he bought it when it was a few years old.
From my ageing memory I'm pretty sure John Surtees bought one new ( a cream FHCoupe ) in late 1961, imeadiately complaining about the budget Shockabsorbers.
Re this dentist guys £ value of his collection, seems £ ott to me too and how many of these cars have been "properly" / correctly restored.....
Mike Hailwood owned at least one E-Type. I almost bought it (a fhc) some years ago but thought it was too expensive at £25k !I wasn't aware that "Mike The Bike" owned an E, certainly not from new, so guessing if he did own one he bought it when it was a few years old.
From my ageing memory I'm pretty sure John Surtees bought one new ( a cream FHCoupe ) in late 1961, imeadiately complaining about the budget Shockabsorbers.
Re this dentist guys £ value of his collection, seems £ ott to me too and how many of these cars have been "properly" / correctly restored.....
The collection is way over-valued.
mph said:
He did have a huge insurance claim some years ago when someone broke into his storage facility and vandalised many of the cars. Allegedly.
Was genuine, a gang of yobbos broke into a storage area in Newport where some cars were being kept, and thought it would be funny to drive the cars around inside the lock up, smash them into each other, jump up and down on them etc. Most of them were wrecks.TankRizzo said:
Was genuine, a gang of yobbos broke into a storage area in Newport where some cars were being kept, and thought it would be funny to drive the cars around inside the lock up, smash them into each other, jump up and down on them etc. Most of them were wrecks.
Was that a load of rare low mileage jags? I remember reading about it.Even valuing the cars at a very generous 100k each on average we dont get half way to the valuation...
TankRizzo said:
Was genuine, a gang of yobbos broke into a storage area in Newport where some cars were being kept, and thought it would be funny to drive the cars around inside the lock up, smash them into each other, jump up and down on them etc. Most of them were wrecks.
Did they catch anyone for it ? LarJammer said:
Was that a load of rare low mileage jags? I remember reading about it.
Even valuing the cars at a very generous 100k each on average we dont get half way to the valuation...
Yeah, he was gutted. Even valuing the cars at a very generous 100k each on average we dont get half way to the valuation...
I don't really know many specifics about his collection, I've seen it a few times but don't know much detail so can't comment on the valuation.
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