Monday 29 April 2013

I Must Admit I Have Always Quiet Liked The Jaguar XK120,

finished in British racing green,


 or like this one, white with a red interior,

so where to start? buying a project to restore is one way to go, this one was being offered at the Coys auction in Ascot, Berkshire with a £15,000 to £25,000 estimate, but it appears that it was not just any old rusty XK, it was a Competition Roadster, and was one of the world’s fastest cars when it left the production factory in 1953, a fact that a few enthusiasts took into account when the car finally went under the hammer at £85,000,


a nice result for owner Douglas Potter who raced the vehicle before storing it at his home in Surrey for more than four decades, restoration will cost an estimated £100,000, so who knows maybe it would have been cheaper to buy one already restored?

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