'New' XJS anyone?
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Has anyone else seen the 50,000 pound, never registered 1989 V12 XJS black convertible with 73 miles on E-Bay?
Is this the lowest mileage XJS known? Someone must have been taking a punt on XJS values back then!
Would anyone be tempted?
This should be the link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jaguar-XJS-V12-Auto-Converti...
I also posted this on the Jaguar Forum.
Is this the lowest mileage XJS known? Someone must have been taking a punt on XJS values back then!
Would anyone be tempted?
This should be the link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jaguar-XJS-V12-Auto-Converti...
I also posted this on the Jaguar Forum.
itiejim said:
That's been for sale for months. I certainly wouldn't put my £50k into it...
+1, If I were to spend anything like £50k on an XJS I'd prefer one that has been that has been restored and had all known design issues rectified and modernized than one that has all the known issues still waiting to happen!.Vastly overpriced IMHO. The problem with such cars is that they are purely museum pieces, never registered, never run and too all intents and purposes useless for what they were designed for. And can you imagine the reconditioning bill should you wish to run it? Horrendous I reckon, since the rings may well have dug into the bores, the hoses will have perished, the fluids all contaminated, the brakes locked on requiring brake work, and if the antifreeze level hasn't been kept up then a full engine strip might be necessary. That's just off the top of my head, and there will be more to consider.
That would have been something north of £36000 back in 1989, so as an investment I'd say it has failed quite spectacularly.
Just think of what state the perishables might be in after such very little use, and the car could do with being presented a little better than that.
I'm sure it will make someone a lovely car, but not at £50k. It would take a brave and committed enthusiast to pay that sort of money for that car, unless you are seriously wealthy, in which case there are probably more diverting ways of spending it!
Just think of what state the perishables might be in after such very little use, and the car could do with being presented a little better than that.
I'm sure it will make someone a lovely car, but not at £50k. It would take a brave and committed enthusiast to pay that sort of money for that car, unless you are seriously wealthy, in which case there are probably more diverting ways of spending it!
but take it to KWE, get them to rebuild it as it should have been and then think what a car you'd end up with.
Except I seem to remember some brand new XJS bodies being offered around a year or so back, so I guess if your want a new rebuilt XJS there would be cheaper ways of getting one.
Wasn't there an Series III XJ12 like this being offered recently too.
Except I seem to remember some brand new XJS bodies being offered around a year or so back, so I guess if your want a new rebuilt XJS there would be cheaper ways of getting one.
Wasn't there an Series III XJ12 like this being offered recently too.
How would it be un-registered. How do you buy a car without registering it. Could it have been somehow stolen.
I remember a very well known Cardiff based car dealer going bust and doing a runner about 10 years ago. He had deaerhips all over including the JEEP dealership in Cardiff. He showed up just before the police came looking with a half arsed trade sales place in an old unit tooked away out of sight. I popped in once and he had 3 brand new unregistered jeep cherokees lined up that he must have swiped from the dealers as it went under. A few days later he Fled to Spain on his yaught so i'm told. No idea what happenned to the Jeeps.
I remember a very well known Cardiff based car dealer going bust and doing a runner about 10 years ago. He had deaerhips all over including the JEEP dealership in Cardiff. He showed up just before the police came looking with a half arsed trade sales place in an old unit tooked away out of sight. I popped in once and he had 3 brand new unregistered jeep cherokees lined up that he must have swiped from the dealers as it went under. A few days later he Fled to Spain on his yaught so i'm told. No idea what happenned to the Jeeps.
rufusgti said:
How would it be un-registered. How do you buy a car without registering it. Could it have been somehow stolen.
Easy, If you buy a brand new car and don't intend to use it on the public highway then you're under no obligation to register it. Registration is only required for the car to be road legal. (And if you rule the land then you do not need a registration plate at all!: http://nice-reg.co.uk/number-plates/number-plates/... ).
The car in question would have been bought by a speculator who immediately put the car into storage hoping to make a massive profit later on in life.
As for: "Could it have been somehow stolen", I doubt it.
4rephill said:
The car in question would have been bought by a speculator who immediately put the car into storage hoping to make a massive profit later on in life.
Bear in mind that in 1989 classic car values were starting to go nuts. In January 1988 I bought a pretty ropey TR6 for £3000, then sold it again in May 1989 for £5500.Obviously the bubble popped.
Yertis said:
Bear in mind that in 1989 classic car values were starting to go nuts. In January 1988 I bought a pretty ropey TR6 for £3000, then sold it again in May 1989 for £5500.
Obviously the bubble popped.
I remember people buying Ferrari 328's for @ £80K~£100K back then thinking they'd make a profit on it a month later, only to see the market collapse and the car drop to @ £25K overnight! (Have to say I didn't have much sympathy for the speculators though!).Obviously the bubble popped.
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