My second point was; NADA has 'book' value on an XJ220 at about 25% of what they are actually worth. Shows how worthless NADA is nowadays.
How about THIS crap? If it's accurate, I'm very sad:

 

More viable than any other car- even a Toyota Camry. For 2 amazing reasons.
1. Not a lot of people realize that the thing that wears out on a car long before anything else is the style. Who would even want to put a $4k paintjob on a mechanically perfect 94 camry. Or put in an engine if you had to get that from a supra or lexus . Better yet who would want to put $8k in an XF 10 years from now when they look worse than other 4door family saloons and worth only $5k. The XK shape/formula is still lusted after and keeps showing up in new designs today.

2. The 5.0 XK is unique in being forward and backwards compatible. With older cheaper JLR cars/trucks and newest expensive JLR fleet. If you did put 300k miles on it and needed new drivetrain, there will be lots of other 5.0 JLR vehicles being scraped due to being out of style.

Oh yes- power never goes out of style- never seen it.

 

Yeah like a wearable fax machine

 

1972 Jensen Inteceptor
1969 MGC GT
1996 XK8

Miss them but found I needed a frilly shirt, handlebar moustache & theme music to follow me around

 

I think my '76 Fiat 124 Spyder is a lost love, but if I had to choose, I'd say my Galant VR4.
Of course, I sold her, then years later bought her back, so she kinda qualifies under the OPs question.

 

Clevername,
Your Fiat 124 from that era is certainly nicer looking than the current offering. I almost bought one, but my best friend did get one that I drove frequently. Fun car!

 

Thanks, The 1900cc engine was bullet proof with the shim and bucket heads. Lots of simplistic engineering throughout the cars design that made sense and worked well for its era. Not fast, but really really fun!

 

Anyone of these three, my brothers and I passed around, or my 66 silver Vette Coupe that was completely refinished in 1973. All of them were just cars back then, and we were happy to get rid of them to move up to the next better one.

 

 

Difficult, I think my current XKR but I still have her.
My 2000 Carrera 4 cab is sorely missed just a incredibly great all round car.
Series 2a Land Rover 109 safari

 

As a Corvette restorer, that picture sort of makes me cringe! But yes, they were just cars and nobody back then ever thought that somebody like me would be attempting to resurrect them or that they'd ever be worth anything (least of all the folks at GM). People thought they wouldn't rust because they were fiberglass, but in fact, they were worse than many steel-bodied cars because the fiberglass is all riveted to poorly primered steel framework with aluminum rivets so it tended to disintegrate pretty quick even without salt on the roads. But wow, what a fun trio you guys must've been!

 

Gadzooks, I wasn't even close be being a Zygote waaaaayyyyyy back then. Sometimes I think I'd like to time travel, just to SEE stuff I've heard about. Course, I DO remember watching first-run Star Trek on our Black & White 13" TV, when I was six.

 

What a young pup!
I remember my 7th grade English teacher having the class write letters to the network, to keep Star Trek on the air (dammmm, she was hot, and loved SciFi).
I'd like to go back to buy (with my current dollars) those things that I loved, at prices that were dirt cheap, but I didn't even have dirt back then.

 

And I remember turning down a '53 Vette for $475 because the Powerglide tranny wouldn't go into reverse. Course I was only making about $65 a week on the assembly line at Arvin's back then too.

 

Over the next decade, we owned three other Vettes after selling those in the photo. Plus a Hurst Olds 442; a '72 Z28; a, Dodge 440 RT Magnum, a Barracuda AAR 'Six Pack', and a couple more. My brother was like a horse trader. He'd go to work in the morning with one car, and come back in the evening with different one that he got in a trade. Whether it be good luck, or a keen eye, we spent our youth driving a bunch of great muscle cars.

I think if we were stock pickers on the NYSE, we would be multimillionaires today. But like you said, we just traded up to the next better ride, and never even bothered to look back. Although today, when I see them on Mecum, or Barrett Jackson, I often wonder what might have been had if were hoarders instead of hot rodders. .

 

OK, since we're now talking 'vettes, I almost bought a 1973 convertible with a 454 in 1979. I can't now remember the exact price, but do know it was under $5000, I'll say $4995. The reason I DIDN'T buy it was the insurance I got quoted for it was astronomical for that time, like $180 per month. Too much for a puny high school kid. The car payments alone would have cost me $95. Not a good investment.

 

My brother does the buy and sell frequently thing.

I don't like selling, and have yet to do so.

I haven't gotten my brother into a Jaguar(yet).

But a few months after I got my Corvette a great deal came along he bought.

I like the C5 because it came before the retro-cartoon styling took over the U.S.

 

My old '87 XJ6 that I bought for $1500 back in 2005. Royal blue with tan/brown interior. Those were the days...

 

 

It's interesting how many Jaguar owners also own Corvettes. One of my Corvette friends, his daily driver is an X308 and his wife an X350. Another has an E-type. And so many on this forum own both or have switched between.

And its great when your family enjoys the same hobby. I'm lucky to have my brother also involved in Corvette restoration. Plus he's seen the X150 coupes at the Jaguar concourse event and seems smitten. Maybe he'll trade his Lexus for a real modern classic