Nice Silver 3000S at DG

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[Mr Tiger]

Lovely looking car and seems to be very competitively priced.

I used to peruse DG's web site regularly up until a few years ago. There were often interesting cars for sale at what seemed to me to be very realistic prices. I remember a stunning silver/blue Tuscan V6 with chrome wires, wooden dash and 666 reg. I think that car reappeared for sale a few months later in France for a much higher price.

There was a green S4 Vixen, the last one built if I remember for about £7k!!! Those wrere the days.

I'm not sure what happened. Did the collectors take over? Prices have certainly risen sharply over the last 5 years or so. Perhaops it was to do with the downturn and banks paying miserable rates of interest. Whatever the reason, I can't remember the last time I saw a car for sale at DG's. Even this 3000S isn't on the web site for sale.

Chris

[Moto]

Mr Tiger said:

There was a green S4 Vixen, the last one built if I remember for about £7k!!! Those wrere the days. Chris

Hi Chris. Your green S4 (actually it was the last S3 made) was probably the one I purchased from DG nearly 4 years ago. It was £7,999 and needed some sorting out. This photo is as purchased :



As now :




I reckon the increase in Vixen values would mean that if I sold today (not that I would) I'd get back most of what I've spent on improving it..... maybe

[Mr Tiger]

That's a beautiful car! Thanks for posting the pics. I'm sure it's a lot more reliable than my memory!

Chris

[oliverb205]

Looking great Steve, hope to catch up sometime. Why did some people in the 1980s think that painting Vixen alloys all silver was a good idea - they look so much better don properly.

It will be interesting to see what the silver 3000S goes for, as Andrew says they're only original once - though since I know mine was accident damaged at a year old and returned to the factory maybe it was actually original twice! It certainly isn't too original now...

Oliver.

[bluezeeland]

Moto said:

I reckon the increase in Vixen TVR values would mean that if I sold today (not that I would) I'd get back most of what I've spent on improving it..... maybe

Are you using that as a excuse to SWMBO as well ?

Beautiful car !

[anonymous-user]

Chances are paint will be faded, chassis will want re-bush etc etc. Nice and original ?

It's an 18k car if exceptional, if it's the normal 30+ year old TVR, it's 10-12k and will cost 10k to make it an 18k car.

[Moto]

oliverb205 said:

mine was accident damaged at a year old and returned to the factory maybe it was actually original twice!

Hi Oliver. I never knew that!

Here's a felt tip drawing of your car, it hangs on my living room wall.



It actually looks better than this photo suggests. Unless you look closely you'd think it was a photograph.

Steve

[oliverb205]

Steve, that is fantastic. It looks pretty good to me, my 4 year old has just recognised it as my car.

I didn't know that about my car until chatting Richard Sails at Back Home about 6 months after buying it, he checked the details against the factory/club records and found that it had been in a big accident in the first year and was rebuilt at Blackpool. I still have copies of a lot of the V5 documents, and keep meaning to trace some of the original owners. And a lot of your bills...

Oliver.