XKC 003 - I wonder ...

[Freddie von Rost]

if the advertised car, pertaining to be XKC 003, at a web advertised price tag of 1.600.000 Euros, comes with a free, lifetime sucker guarantee?

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2075354.htm

[cardigankid]

Is this for real?

[Freddie von Rost]

XKC 003 lives. Despite being broken up at Browns Lane on the 29th of August 1953. Proteus replica more like it.

[Simpo Two]

If fake, it would be interesting to ask for copies of the documentation...

[Freddie von Rost]

Simpo Two said:

If fake, it would be interesting to ask for copies of the documentation...

Just look at the side of the bonnet. Should be four vents not louvres. Terry Larson's C Type Register, confirmed by the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust, states that 003 was broken up in 1953.

Rumour has it that this car has been punted about for some time now. With a first registration date of September 1950. In Spain.

Time travel. Marvellous.

[a8hex]

I'm looking forward to Lowdrags comments.

[RW774]

The number/ letter stamps on the chassis plate are too big, the cam clearances have been missed off and its` on 15 inch rims aswell.Still, some half wit will buy it? ( somebody has already).I see the guy wants a C or a D for a european client.Not this one though, funny that.

[NormanD]

Advert said:

For sale is the 57 years missed Jaguar C-Type Vin # XKC 003.Complete history till today.Lot of documentation.Please ask for more infos and pics.

Be interesting to ask for the 'Complete history till today'

[SimonV8ster]

If its definitly a rip can't somebody report it ? I mean thats fraud of epic scale if he gets that much money ?

[Freddie von Rost]

You Tube video also shows lipped wheel arches. Separate rear indicators too by the looks of it.

[cardigankid]

There goes my faith in a higher standard of integrity in the Fatherland.

[Freddie von Rost]

The car, according to impeccable soutces, has been punted around for at least two years. Not that it is of unusual for high end racingthe genuine article.

[RW774]

If this 003 had been passed off as a correct copy ( which it seems it is far from it), with perhaps some genuine components, it would have been worth more in it`s own right,imho, simular to the Peter Jaye C types.It certainly would not have attracted such a critical eye. I`m building 10 ex works Mk1 saloons but this are `based` on cars built by factory, substantiated by interviews and known historie. They will have a value, but to pass them off as original would be laughable, as those that exist are well documented.

[melhookv12]

Slightly off topic, but I saw the reg ' BUY 12 ' the other day, and it wasnt on a Jaguar !!!