A premonition...

[surveyor]

During Le Mans 2019, while eating at an average restaurant and listening to racing cars, our group discussed entering our vehicles into the race. Little did we know it, but with the events of 2020, and teams withdrawing, our fantasy would become reality.... So the lineup....



We have

Rover Vitesse
MGB
E39 M5 (220,000 miles)
and a Ford Transit (with Caravan - we argued about that, and I lost!)

I think it could be an entertaining, if audibly less interesting race...

What are your entries?

[MCSV8]

Unfortunately the graphics would need re-applying:

[wsn03]

My XKR...with lockdown Ive been able to sort the brakes out myself, properly, so with no more juddering I reckon I'd be in with a good shout - especially against that British Leyland stuff (presuming my own JLR Leyland lasts the distance)

[wsn03]

MCSV8 said:

Unfortunately the graphics would need re-applying:

I've always lusted after those, but never quite managed to want one enough to actually buy one - and now they're telephone numbers expensive! Beautiful to look at still.

[LM240]

wsn03 said:

MCSV8 said:

Unfortunately the graphics would need re-applying:

I've always lusted after those, but never quite managed to want one enough to actually buy one - and now they're telephone numbers expensive! Beautiful to look at still.

Likewise. I’m sure around the 1995-2000 period these were a little unloved around the 35-40k mark? I was doing work experience in a ferrari dealers workshop at the time, and one of these came in. Absolutely loved the looks and sound of it. Then I saw an advert for one yesterday at 250k!

Similar to Dino’s... poor mans ferrari, fake ferrari etc etc... similar 25-45k around that period and now +300k!

[MCSV8]

I paid less than 1/2 of that for it in 1994

Was on the road but pretty crumbly underneath. All that's fixed now. It won't be having any body graphics applied for the foreseeable future after the bare metal respray !

Pre Covid it may have fetched 6 figures. Now...who knows...but it's not for sale so who cares ?

[LawrieC]

The secondhand car market is strange. I was always surprised that the DBS was never cheap secondhand, especially when it wasn't a fantastic success. Only the DB7 sank to affordable prices, and for no known reason. Perhaps there were too many of them. Or course, earlier DBs were always silly money. The excellent V8 engine was sunk by Ford, who wanted a (double Mondeo V6) V12, because Jaguars would be the V8s

I'm pleased to see that your initially expensive investment has paid off