I was driving to look at a local MGB GT and noticed a few cars sitting behind a neighbors house. I stopped, thinking I saw a 1970's Toyota Corolla and something else. As it turns out, I discovered a 70's Mercury Comet and a MkII.
Attached are some pictures.
What can you tell me about the car? Is it worth buying? I looked at the door sills and rockers and they are solid.
James

 

its an s type auto,

 

S Type 1966 3.4 Ltr Auto, with a £15K GBP spend if you do it yourself, well restored worth approx £20K, so it depends if you want a project car for fun or an investment car, if it's a long term investment you will get your money back, but your time will be given up for free.

I could give you a list of jobs to start with and that's without seeing the chassis or the interior.

 

Based on the chassis number P1B/76090BW:

Jaguar S-type powered by a 3.8 XK engine with power steering left-hand drive and a Borg Warner automatic transmission. This Jaguar S-type was number 1059 out of 2036 vehicles manufactured during 1964 in the United Kingdom.

The engine number prefix is 7B and the body number prefix is 4B.

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You can look this up yourself on using the SALOON CHASSIS NUMBER DECODER

 

forget it, it's only good for some parts, the engine must be seized, the rusted body not worth restoring. But if you can get it cheap, and have a place to dismantle it and sell the parts, you might double your investment.

 

I agree with Jose, the body rust is just the beginning, it's what can't be seen on the undercarriage that is the real nightmare.
The interior is probably shot too from being outside.
Too bad really.

It's hard to believe it was bran new at one time.

 

Jeebers! There's a Money Pit, if ever I saw one. The best part on there's the bloody Leaper! Pass on this one. CAVEAT EMPTOR!!!

 

send the VIN P1B76090BW to the International S type Register to have it registered as a "dead/abandoned" S type.

they are trying to track the whereabouts of every S type ever built, not many were made between mid-1963 and 1968, under 25 thousand were made for the whole world.

Jaguar 'S'-type Register

 

As the Beatles once sang, LET IT BE....

 

To be fair,
The owner wants $250 for it with a title.
I will be going back tomorrow to give it a very thorough inspection.
I'm going to check to see if the engine turns, crawl under it and see how the underside looks, mileage, etc.
I have to think for $250, there isn't much to lose here.
Maybe I build a roadkill style beater, or maybe I part it out for a small profit.
I'd have to think that if the engine turns, the block and heads alone are worth the purchase price.
James

 

Definitely! If the engine turns over there's definitely $250 of value in them alone. The trick is to honestly appraise what's salvageable, & not be enticed to rebuild the Titanic!

 

He He He !!...
Rebuild the Titanic !

And 250 bucks is a good deal for that.

 

I'm going blind, misread 3.8 for 3.4 !!

At $250, if you have room, take it for spares it's def worth it at that price. If it was in the UK, I would take it for spares alone

 

I'd love to see what was left when it came out of an acid bath. My guess? Not much!

 

$250. is fine but offer $200.00 just for fun.

does it include the trailer? if yes, that is one hell of a bargain. And lots of S type salvage parts.

the Glass is mucho important, don't damage it.

 

Its worth it for target practice as well.......

 

Eminently restorable, should buff up quite nicely

 

Being in the parts business, I see too many people excited about a rust bucket and most time the bucket should be kicked to the curb for scrap. Do yourself a favor and extend your life by getting excited about something else. You can clearly see the sheet metal falling off. You can buy a very nice clean one for $10,000 to $20,000

 

or $35k for an unrestored-needs-no-restoration-intact-example.

but many people prefer to spend $60k or more restoring one, I guess they like the word "restored" better than "intact-unrestored-unrusted".

 

I applaud those who are willing to spend more money than a car's worth when restoring one, especially an old Jag. It's the best way to make sure there'll always be cars like this around. Unrestored, unrusted daily drivers are getting pretty hard to find. That said. there are limits. & this car is so far past that limit it's ludicrous to even contemplate restoring it, & most likely impossible, no matter how much money was spent.