Be brave: ’50 Jaguar Mark V 2.5
When we first spotted this one we thought only a crazy person would undertake restoring this one. That is probably true but that crazy person will have one special car after it is done. There are a bunch of assumptions with this one. It is an interesting shade of green but we don’t know if it is original to the car. There is an oral history that the Royal Family of Thailand owned the Jaguar and used it on formal occasions. We’ll go out on a limb here and suggest the green represents the jewel tones typical of almost everything in Thailand. Wouldn’t that be cool? It looks complete but the seller says there are a few things missing. It hasn’t run in years however the engine turns freely. No guarantees it will run. The title says it is a ’46 but the seller believes it is a ’50. A Heritage Certificate would go along way in helping set the value of this one. If it turns out to be a cheap repaint and originally a black car then we would cash in our chips and keep looking. Click here for the listing.
I bought the 1950 Mark V that is thought to have been owned by the Royal Family of Thailand. The car did have some documentation with it such as the shipping certificate from Thailand dated August 5,1982 shipped by a Messrs. D. Karnasuta of Thailand. There was a painted sign in the car in TAI that has the vin # and “check engine” painted on the sign. I did have a Jaguar Heritage check done. The car was manufactured Oct 26, 1950 and shipped to ASSIA, Bangkok, Thailand Nov 23 1950. I have had the car running and am in the process of doing all the brakes and other things to get the car on the road. The car was painted pastel green which is the original paint on the car that is still on the car. It looks like the interior was redone as the original interior was a suede green. I am in the process of trying to obtain more information on the car while it was in Thailand. So far everything works on the car.
Might be worth buying just to pull out the back seat and recover all the jewels that were lost there…