Advice for a novice please!

captjonnie · Post by **captjonnie** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:05 am

Hi folks ... I am looking to buy my first classic, namely a Series 3 v12 manual coupe with 42000 miles. I'd be really grateful if anyone can help and give me some of the more obvious things that I should be looking for. The car is being sold by a dealer for ?32K and has been in the same ownership for the last 27 years. Any tips or advice would be great ... thanks!

Post by **Heuer** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:54 am

Yes. Buy a copy of Pete Crespin's book (Pete posts here regularly) as it will be invaluable to you. ?9 from Amazon:

captjonnie · Post by **captjonnie** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:27 pm

Thanks David ... much appreciated

PeterCrespin · Post by **PeterCrespin** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:18 pm

That is VERY expensive for a 2+2. You should be able to buy two for that price in the real world - or close anyhow. Does it REALLY matter to you that one family owned it for 27 of its 40-ish years? Yes, it means hopefully they looked after it, and the dealer back-up (if it exists) could be handy, but you can surely buy very nice cars for 5-10 grand less. That buys an awful lot of V12 petrol* so you could actually enjoy the thing.

Pete

*OK, I lied. It buys about 250 miles-worth :-)

christopher storey · Post by **christopher storey** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:44 am

I agree with Peter. It sounds like the sort of car that will fetch about 15K - 17.5K at auction . Also check from the chassis no that it is an original manual car ( i.e. make sure it does not have a BW suffix) and it is also worth checking from the number that it is not a LHD/RHD conversion . Although neither of these factors is of utmost importance, they do make a difference to the value, or perhaps 10% in each case . You can get a lot of info from xkedata.com, including the fact that the dealer may have bought it at auction

snowdmc · Post by **snowdmc** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:33 am

im selling my s3 v12 for nearly 10k less than that - it really would have to be concours for that sort of money, and like the other guys said there's a lot of decent examples out there for a lot less money.

http://www.sladesgarage.com/jaguar-e-ty ... re-2008139

PeterCrespin · Post by **PeterCrespin** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 1:24 pm

snowdmc wrote:im selling my s3 v12 for nearly 10k less than that - it really would have to be concours for that sort of money, and like the other guys said there's a lot of decent examples out there for a lot less money.

http://www.sladesgarage.com/jaguar-e-ty ... re-2008139

Yes, but who else besides you has a V12 in 'Patel blue'? Was one of the three owners a newsagent by any chance?

Post by **Heuer** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 2:25 pm

Obviously the new colours offered by the Indian owners of Jaguar. Singh Red, Old Indian White anyone?

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