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MG MG Y Type - Buchanan Y Type

This is an amazing opportunity - a Buchanan Y Type on eBay. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280133560182 is the reference. I have asked the seller for more details for us and hope to bring them to you soon. I will also hope to follow this one through to the completion of the sale. I know if I was in Australia I would be thinking seriously of how I could get this!!

Disclaimer:
I have no knowledge or relationship with the sale of this item.

Paul
Paul Barrow

I like the way the lightened the chassis: Swiss cheese comes to mind...?
Willem van der Veer

Paul, thanks for the alert of this gem for sale. I'm too old to restore and race a historic car but for someone younger...

However,I do raise the point that with this or a road car sellers are still setting high sale prices without adding up how much the buyer is going to have to spend to get the car looking good - if not concours - and road, or in this case, raceworthy.

I would estimate that with the mechanical rebuild, the engine rebuild to race specs, tyres and the body and limited upholstery - no soft top required! - restoration there will be no change from a further $25,000. And that's with the owner doing much of the work.

Therefore it begs the question: is the car then worth $35,000? I think not.

Vehicles ready (ripe the ads usually say)for restoration are now, across the board, offered at prices far too high.

I have spoken to several owners of TCs over the last five years who have spent $50,000 all up on their concours restoration and then they have struggled to sell them for $30,000.

I hope reality will set in soon and asking prices reduced so that the cars that come up for sale can change hands at reasonable prices and the new owners can realise their dreams of completing the restoration and thence enjoy driving them.

Any comments anyone?

All the best,

Rob

Rob Dunsterville

Hi Rob

If you fund the purchase for me and the shipping, I'll do the rest over time!!!

Paul
Paul Barrow

I take Rob's points, although I long ago realised that economics was a distant relative to old car interests!

The interest in XPAG specials at the Silverstone meetings (and elsewhere) shows that there are enough historians in the old car movements to keep these rareties alive - and even racing!

Some more info on the Buchanan Y is below (from the Buchanan Register):

MG "Y" type chassis

"Wal Mitchell" Buchanan MG special: body # 38 built by East Burwood Motors in Victoria on a shortened and lightened MG "Y" chassis. One of two Buchanans raced by "Wal" Mitchell 1960-61. MGA engine and gearbox now fitted.

Now so long as no one tells Arlene that I've seen it advertised, how much to ship to the UK I wonder?

Yours in guilty secrecy, Andrew

Andrew Coulson

This thread was discussed on 13/07/2007

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