Is this for real? £175k!!

[vixen1700]

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C139480

Surely this can't be for real, £175k for a '70s custom MkII Jag?

Anybody know anything about it, and to why the asking price would be so much?

[mrtwisty]

Well I don't think its a typo - 17 grand wouldn't be enough. 175k is bloody madness!

Those wolfrace alloys don't suit it at all either, terrible combination.

[benjj]

What a stbox.

[tonys]

I don't see the relevance of what someone offered him nearly 40years ago. Does seem a touch high, although some classic asking prices are getting a bit silly.

Maybe it's meant to be ahead of the game and priced in Greek Drachma.

Some better photos might also help.

[Huntsman]

There's no way on earth he was offered over 50k in the early 70's.

[john2443]

Huntsman said:

There's no way on earth he was offered over 50k in the early 70's.

If he was he should have taken it as quickly as possible!

[mybrainhurts]

HO, bloody, HO HO HO...

[Jw Vw]

mybrainhurts said:

HO, bloody, HO HO HO...

[davepoth]

john2443 said:

If he was he should have taken it as quickly as possible!

Exactly - £54k back than is the equivalent of about £500k now with inflation, for what would have been a ten year old MkII with E-type running gear and st alloys. I can think of better things to spend the money on, such as a bulk delivery of horse st.

[vpr]

The guy is clearly on drugs

He even reckons the reg numbers worth 15k. MVW 6. I think not

[restoman]

This Jag just about sums up all that was wrong with the 70s custom car scene.

£175K - only in cloud cuckoo land.

[Marquis Rex]

I do love Jags, but it must be said that classic Jaguar owners are amongst the most dillusional.

I remember about 12 years ago- a scabby series 3 XJ with paint peeling off and a mouldy interior- the guy wanted over 2000GBP. Me and a friend were phoning him putting different voices on making progressively lower offers, until he snapped and said " I wouldn't give it away for that much!".

"GIVE it away? What? Well giving it away would probably be reasonable".

[diddles]

vpr said:

The guy is clearly on drugs

He even reckons the reg numbers worth 15k. MVW 6. I think not

MVW6 is currently for sale on various web sites for 11k.

[lowdrag]

As a comparison, I bought a lovely unmolested 1959 3.4 manual overdrive Mk 1 back in 2005, one owner and 18,000 on the clock, for £7,000. All it needed was tyres (sitting 6 years since owner died) and a service plus a couple of hoses and she purred. A molested car like that I'd put at £6,000 before the rebuild, depending just how rotten it is or isn't as the case might be. Those Wolfraces are the pits!

[vixen1700]

It's the 'I was offered £54,000 for it in 1973' that gets me. Looking at some '73 list prices, A 246 Dino was £5485, an Interceptor was £6981 while a Bristol 411 was £8973.

£54,000!

[Drclarke]

What an idiot for

1. Expecting anyone for believing it's worth £175000
2. Turning down £50000+ all those years ago

[Hugo a Gogo]

those cars, lovely as they are in proper condition, were just cheap bangers in the early 70s

[Mr. Magoo]

i think theres a bit of keyboard tourrettes at play here and he keeps adding an unecessary '0'

[varsas]

Mr. Magoo said:

i think theres a bit of keyboard tourrettes at play here and he keeps adding an unecessary '0'

Assuming it comes with the plate, and depending on what state exactly the engine is in, £17.5k sounds like a good deal. Plate for £11k, engine for £5k+, webbers plus inlet for £3k, gearbox £1k plus whatever the shell/interior is worth.

[Mr. Magoo]

sadly i think the vendor is truly deluded though. I would not pay more than 40K for an absolute concours show stopping and tastefully upgraded 3.8 M O/D let alone 4 times that for a butchered Mk2.