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Title: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: rich83 on April 05, 2013, 12:03:08 am
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Ft%2FJaguar-Driver-Club-JDC-Magazine-No-442-05-1997-XK150-Article-%2F00%2Fs%2FMTYwMFgxMTIx%2Fz%2FUWwAAMXQzB5RBl%7EY%2F%24%28KGrHqR%2C%21pwFEBe2N7uCBRBl%2B%28t7z%21%7E%7E60_12.JPG&hash=05140168baf99ac9ec13cb66c50d7e337fd7803a)

Bought it when he was 22... spend thousands on doing up with his dad who worked for jaguar.

3 months to do the paint, 13/14 coats if I remember correctly.

It won all the concourse (aka show and shine) at the jag shows/events.

Sold it for £65K a while back... would be worth twice that now....   :love:
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: Deako on April 05, 2013, 12:04:30 am
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Ft%2FJaguar-Driver-Club-JDC-Magazine-No-442-05-1997-XK150-Article-%2F00%2Fs%2FMTYwMFgxMTIx%2Fz%2FUWwAAMXQzB5RBl%7EY%2F%24%28KGrHqR%2C%21pwFEBe2N7uCBRBl%2B%28t7z%21%7E%7E60_12.JPG&hash=05140168baf99ac9ec13cb66c50d7e337fd7803a)

Bought it when he was 22... spend thousands on doing up with his dad who worked for jaguar.

3 months to do the paint, 13/14 coats if I remember correctly.

It won all the concourse (aka show and shine) at the jag shows/events.

Sold it for £65 a while back... would be worth twice that now....   :love:

Surely a typo. £65??
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: rich83 on April 05, 2013, 12:04:44 am
Sorry i dont have any more pics. He showed me all the magazine features last night and a album of the restoration. It was immaculate!
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: rich83 on April 05, 2013, 12:05:18 am
Sorry Luke... missed the "K" off

£65K
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: xjay1337 on April 05, 2013, 12:06:50 am
Lol I was going to say, £65..  :grin: :grin:

What a nice old motor.. do love an old Jaaaaaaaaaaag.. especially the Mk2s to be honest. I wouldn't imagine he had a build thread or a sort of documentation of the restoration?
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: rich83 on April 05, 2013, 12:08:05 am
Here we go.... another mag feature.

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Ft%2FClassic-Sports-Car-English-Magazine-September-1996-Jaguar-XK-150-%2F00%2Fs%2FMTAyNFg3NzA%3D%2F%24T2eC16VHJG8E9nyfnfl1BQwsGgf%21%2Bg%7E%7E60_12.JPG&hash=45d1aff5bdc1d7f465555b5b828a627d0766e83e)
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: rich83 on April 05, 2013, 12:08:58 am
Lol I was going to say, £65..  :grin: :grin:

What a nice old motor.. do love an old Jaaaaaaaaaaag.. especially the Mk2s to be honest. I wouldn't imagine he had a build thread or a sort of documentation of the restoration?

He does... but its all in an old school photo album.... not on instagram soz jayz!

Hes also got about 5/6 certificates from when he won... which he did every show (except on, when he was beaten by the head of the jaguar xk150 owners club)
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: Deako on April 05, 2013, 12:16:41 am
Lovely. Beautiful car.  :happy2:
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: rich83 on April 05, 2013, 09:55:39 am
Im going to see if Dave will let me borrow the restoration photo album to scan.....  :happy2:
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: liver on April 05, 2013, 10:11:42 am
very nice

Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: bigmig95 on April 05, 2013, 10:16:06 am
 :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: gorgeous car.
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: xjay1337 on April 05, 2013, 04:19:51 pm
Im going to see if Dave will let me borrow the restoration photo album to scan.....  :happy2:

Yay! :happy2:
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: MC71 on April 05, 2013, 04:30:59 pm
Stunning car. I've met (through my dad who has an S1 E Type) a few peeps with various XK's, truly beautiful cars. Give me a classic DHC any day.  :love:

Chap I met at a show once (with a XK) spent £8k IIRC on his concourse paint job!  Probably your friend!!  :laugh:
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: rich83 on April 05, 2013, 04:33:36 pm
Stunning car. I've met (through my dad who has an S1 E Type) a few peeps with various XK's, truly beautiful cars. Give me a classic DHC any day.  :love:

Chap I met at a show once (with a XK) spent £8k IIRC on his concourse paint job!  Probably your friend!!  :laugh:

It wouldn't surprise me if it was 8k. And this was early 90s. So you could almost double that today
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: chris a on April 05, 2013, 05:23:30 pm
Lovely car
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: MC71 on April 05, 2013, 05:47:13 pm
Have just started re watching the TV Series "Robbie Coltrane: B-Road Britain" on ITV3 HD on Wednesday's at 21.00, a rather beautiful XK150S is his transport for the series.

 :happy2:
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: dmac1969 on April 05, 2013, 10:11:40 pm
Lovely cars , shame we dont build anything as nice as that nowadays.
Title: Re: My friends red Jaguar XK150 Drophead
Post by: Tomm on April 06, 2013, 01:45:50 am
love the colour!