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An ad from 1965 ... we often comment on the prices of what are now sought after cars back in the day .... at 4 grand I'd have bought a dozen!! ![[Linked Image]](https://www.tm-img.com/images/2022/11/11/FB_IMG_1668204070487.jpg) K
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I used the Bank of Englands Inflation Calculator, and that's about £60,000 in todays money which is absolute peanuts! Good investment as they;re going for £4m+
"Y mae dafad ddu ym mhob praidd"
1972 4/4, 1981 MGBGT, 1984 FLHT1340, 1980 XLH1000, 1990 ZX10
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More if the many serial numbers align and it is not a recent parts bin special. Worth it for the sound alone eh?
Everyone loves a Morgan. Even me, unless it's broken again.
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Learner Plates Off!
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I used the Bank of Englands Inflation Calculator, and that's about £60,000 in todays money which is absolute peanuts! Good investment as they;re going for £4m+
A good investment for sure, although the maintenance costs over the past 50+ years would have been considerable. As for value in today's money, our new house in 1968 was £4250, and now selling around £425,000. Still couldn't buy a Spitfire for that sort of money.
1956 Plus 4 4 seater
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End of the war there were lines of them parked up at Vickers in Sealand.
You could have anyone you fancied for £25 each, some were sold to the Israeli Air Force that way!
De Havilland Mosquitoes were stripped of engines and reusable bits, towed to a corner of the airfield then set on fire. The ashes were raked through and the steel bits collected and taken to Summer's Steelwork
Arwyn
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Just barreling along Needs to Get Out More!
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Spare 'Nil Hour' engine, wow, even that alone would be worth a small fortune today
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Wouldn't pass the sound test for a track day though! 
Cheers, Paul
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Guy Martin has fun with his https://youtu.be/wJ9aO5yvT3k?t=229 (ignore the ads  )
Peter
2009 3-litre Roadster "Ivor", royal ivory / green
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Keith - late to this one but that advert is an absolute gem  I had visions of you Googling "secondhand Spitfires for sale" 
2009 4/4 Sport Henrietta
1999 Indigo Blue +8
2009 4/4 Sport Green prev
1993 Con Green +8 prev
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Way back, maybe around 1982, a local farmer rebuilt a couple of Merlins for static running. We got to know him, and he asked us to dispose of a rotted out Midget in his barn. We went over one Saturday and stripped it down in the day. I can't remember where the parts went.
In his woodshed, covered in logs was an MGA Coupe. Not a shred of paint remained on it. In his barn was a 60s Lotus Elite, semi dismantled. There was something else quite exotic, but time has erased that from my memory now. Might have been a Lagonda. One outbuilding was rammed with mostly MGA body panels. He was typical of the 80s hands on enthusiast. He had all the space he needed. Few are left nowadays.
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'16 Yellow (Not the only) Narrow AR GDI Plus 4
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