Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[ukdave2002]

This question came to mind after a mate came back with a 2004 MGF that he had picked up from an auction......

The car looks quite tidy, runs ok, MOT until April 2014, came to auction via a main dealer who had taken it in as a part ex....sold at auction for £410

Got me thinking at what time would my MGA have been at rock bottom prices? possibly the late 60's early 70's when it would have looked dated compared to the MGB, what about your own car? when would it have been a bargain basement runabout?

Dave

[Rick]

As pre-war cars are of most interest to me, I think the time to buy would have been in the early 1960s, just as the ten-year-test (MOT) was being introduced. Many interesting cars ended up in scrapyards due to them having faults that rendered them all-but worthless. Rich pickings to be had for those with the spare cash, and space to store cars under cover.

RJ
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[peter scott]

After being rescued from a scrap yard my car was back on the road in 1965 and sold for £18. That is about £260 in today's money.

Peter


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[Ellis]

The best time to have bought a Jaguar Mark 2 would have been in the mid to late 1970s.
There were many low mileage nice condition cars with one or a low number of owners for sale then privately. Jaguar dealers, then more numerous - there were three in North Wales - didn't want them in part exchange against new XJ6s.
£400 or less would have bought an excellent 3.4 or 3.8 in 1976. By the early 1980s many that were left were formerly owned by young "ton up" merchants and on their last legs bodily and mechanically.

The Jaguar "S" Type fared even worse. In 1981 I was offered my father's former 1965 3.8 "S" Type which he had bought in 1966, CEY 792C for only a few pounds after it had found it's way,somehow, to a nearby village.

The then proprietor of Riverbank Motors in Shotton, North Wales, a well known Jaguar parts specialist in the early 1990s told me that in 1970 when he was in the RAF he bought a Jaguar XK150 dhc from an officer for £15 to upgrade the brakes on his XK140 and to provide a better set of wheels and tyres !
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[JC T ONE]

Some time ago, a few old (early 70ies) adverts were reprinted in Classic & Sportscar.

I seem to remember a Merc 300 Gullwing was 1500 pounds
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[kevin2306]

in the mid 80s i was an apprentice joiner and the joiner i worked with at the time part-ex'd his 1972 e type against an alfa romeo gtv, when i say part ex i mean he gave his e type and money in return for the other car! how mad is that given the current value of each motor...

[MikeEdwards]

I've got quite a few magazines from the mid-70s when my car was new, and a lot of the classified ads in the back of them are amazing, though it is easy to forget how long it took the average man in the street to earn that kind of money back then.

"1960 Maserati 3500GTO left-hand drive coupe, urgent sale, hence bargain price £550 ono" or a Daytona for £5150.

[MikeEdwards]

[badhuis]

I never paid much for my cars, always less than 4000 pounds. Bottom side is that they still are not worth very much
Jensen Interceptor Mk1 has doubled since 2002
Austin Westminster A110 maybe also doubled since 1995
Sunbeam Chamois same price as 30 years ago (little above scrap value!)
TR4 three or four times the price I paid in 1994
Austin Champ scrap value 3 years ago, still can be found for next to nothing.

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[baconsdozen]

I wish I could have the loan of a time machine.
I'd go back to when I was clambering over Mk1 consuls,Ford Prefects and Mk2 jags to remove parts for some project or another and rescue some of them.
Id stop myself from selling my Mk7 jag with the number plate RBP123 for a couple of hundred quid and take the BSA A10 and DBD34 Gold Star out of my shed and store them.
Hind sight is such a useless thing.
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[ChrisD]

Hopefully this should be of interest. Best used small car budget buys circa Dec 1968 from Hot Car mag!

[peter scott]