Soft market on Jags...jeez

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Rot 911

Most people have no understanding of the value of what they consider to be "exotic" older foreign cars. Hell your average new car today is probably hovering around $25K. Just think of what Porsche or BMW you can get for that price.

A very very nice 3.2 Carrera!

[turbo6bar]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

The guys on the 'tex tend to get out of hand. I got tired of the BS on the Corrado forum... It was actually a deciding factor in selling the car. For the money I was spending I wanted a car that I could actually find some support for.

What, VW Vortex not a good place?






That Jaguar looks really nice. The driver's seat could use some attention, but for $4k, that's not bad.

[cairns]

I owned an XJS years ago (V12) and lost a fair amount of money when I sold it. My Motto?

Better to have owned a Jaguar and lost money than to have never owned a Jaguar at all.

[Embraer]

Welp...I put the car back on craigslist yesterday. 10 minutes later, I got an email....the interested party only lived 2 blocks from me. I took it over to his place after work..he had a 964, several VW's, and an MGA twincam sitting in his garage. He looked at the car for a whole 2 minutes and offered full asking price.

"Man...this car is REALLY clean."

I dropped the car off today and walked the two blocks home, license plate in hand.

Ahhhhhh, what a relief....now I'll be taking the E30 out west!

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Embraer

Welp...I put the car back on craigslist yesterday. 10 minutes later, I got an email....the interested party only lived 2 blocks from me. I took it over to his place after work..he had a 964, several VW's, and an MGA twincam sitting in his garage. He looked at the car for a whole 2 minutes and offered full asking price.

"Man...this car is REALLY clean."

I dropped the car off today and walked the two blocks home, license plate in hand.

Ahhhhhh, what a relief....now I'll be taking the E30 out west!

MGA twin cam??? Now that is an impressive ride..beautiful & rare. Sounds like you left the jag in good hands.

[strupgolf]

I owned a '94 XJ6 and it was worry free and a beautiful ride. Also bought a 85 XJS and sold it 2 years later for more, go figure.

[holtjv]

Originally Posted by TechnoViking

I think you'll find the market for parts may be tough as well. Parts will sell, but maybe for less than you'd like.

Is there an ad link for the bonnie? If not, PM me.

[Embraer]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

MGA twin cam??? Now that is an impressive ride..beautiful & rare. Sounds like you left the jag in good hands.

yeah...it was really beautiful. Black with the painted wheels. He said it's only one of two in Indiana. It was REALLY sharp. I told him I'd take my TR4 over and exchange rides in each others' cars. I'll snag some pictures

[aigel]

You are lucky he isn't on VWVORTEX. Sounds like you both made out.

George

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Embraer

Welp...I put the car back on craigslist yesterday. 10 minutes later, I got an email....the interested party only lived 2 blocks from me. I took it over to his place after work..he had a 964, several VW's, and an MGA twincam sitting in his garage. He looked at the car for a whole 2 minutes and offered full asking price.

"Man...this car is REALLY clean."

I dropped the car off today and walked the two blocks home, license plate in hand.

Ahhhhhh, what a relief....now I'll be taking the E30 out west!

So much for my offer to speed things up.

[Steve Carlton]

What do 175,000 mile 928s go for?

[BRPORSCHE]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

What do 175,000 mile 928s go for?

I think that is still Enzo and Mclaren F1 territory.

No mortals on this BBS could touch that.

[Embraer]

So I took the TR4 out today...as I was tooling around, I decided to run over a couple of extra parts that I found for the Jag. I went over to the guys house....he showed me a couple more of his cars. He drove his MGA Twincam to work, so that was outside.

In his garage, he had a couple more MGA's, a 550 replica (with all 912 components), a bugeye sprite, and an Ariel Atom. I guess he has around 50 cars.

Anyway, as I was driving out, my electric fuel pump heat soaked and stopped....so the TR4 died in his driveway. He and I monkeyed around with it and got it going again...I had no idea who this guy was until I went home and googled him.

CEO/founder for a pretty big company, Harvard MBA, etc. REALLY down to earth. nice guy.

a couple of his cars:

[azasadny]

Mike,
I'm glad you got the car sold. congrats!