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Harry Metcalfe's Jag
« on: 10 November 2025, 10:17:18 »
Don't know if anyone has followed this Jag XJC V12

Harry bought it for something like £5000 or £6000, spent a shed load on it £70odd thousand IIRC & then when sold went for silly money.

https://www.iconicauctioneers.com/1978-jaguar-xjc-rec16093-2-nec-1125
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Re: Harry Metcalfe's Jag
« Reply #1 on: 10 November 2025, 10:24:40 »
Wow, that's some mark up.  :y 
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Re: Harry Metcalfe's Jag
« Reply #2 on: 10 November 2025, 11:38:31 »
I think his restoration/restomod made it about as good as any xjc could be. There's a good YT video out there by Tom Lenthal who did all the work on the v12. Apparently he now does a decent trade in 'Harey spec' v12 upgrade packages  ;D

But yes, hard to justify the price when you could recreate what has been done, to your exact tastes, for substantially less than the purchase price.
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Re: Harry Metcalfe's Jag
« Reply #3 on: 10 November 2025, 12:14:17 »
When you said 'silly money' I was thinking silly money low rather than silly money high. ;)

Like around £10,000. ::)

Lovely car but not for that money. :y
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Re: Harry Metcalfe's Jag
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Re: Harry Metcalfe's Jag
« Reply #6 on: Yesterday at 08:29:03 »
It is one hell of a car (have seen and sat in it) and Harry was saying it gets down the road, and also now corners, like something pretty modern and high spec.

I guess if its what you want, you have the money, and don't want the hastle of getting your own to that standard, then it's not an awful price to pay
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Re: Harry Metcalfe's Jag
« Reply #7 on: Yesterday at 09:09:22 »
Harry has a fantastic collection of vehicles, I watched about an hour of his stroll round his warehouse collection on YouTube last week £140,000 must be like pocket change to him.
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