Thread: Max Cooper's Jaguar XJ220S for sale

oh god. . .

can I please borrow about $300k from someone?

Nick

I like it.

Not sure he's working the right angle by pitching it to people who are looking at an F430 or Gallardo. That's like cross-shopping a used Charger SRT-8 with a new Toyota Camry.

It's the perfect car for Gumball though, a total BEAST on the open road.

Originally Posted by jibaholic101

who is max exactly?

Primarily known for being the founder of Gumball 3000.

Maximillion Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by ZAMIRZ

It's the perfect car for Gumball though, a total BEAST on the open road.

Personally, my idea of a perfect car for the gumball is something slightly more reliable

Originally Posted by ///M3TZ

Personally, my idea of a perfect car for the gumball is something slightly more reliable

For what it is, it's not THAT bad, but you have to always be hammering it. If you drive around town at low RPM, it'll go through a set of plugs with every tank of fuel

If everything is in tip top shape, it'll survive the gumball...maybe

Originally Posted by mango-london

Beautiful car.

But something about it's license plate doesn't make sense...

All Uk plates are age related, the prefix letter (S in this case) tells you what year the plate was first issued, and while you can put an older plate on any car, you can't put a plate on which makes the car appear 'younger' than it is. But S-plates came out in 1998.....

So unless that car sat unused, un-owned and unregistered in a showroom for 5 years it shouldn't be wearing that plate

I'm not for a second suggesting that there is something dodgy going on by the way, just wondering out loud how it's got that registration

I'll take it a step further and add that I don't believe Max's car is a real XJ220 S. The real cars are fairly well documented, their current locations are known, and all of them have the same fixed rear wing that was featured on the XJ220C's that raced at LeMans. Max's car has an identical nose piece, but the rear end is like every other stock XJ220. The only real XJ220 S that's in the UK is chassis #803 - painted Summer Yellow with matching wheels.

An extensive gallery of all the real ones can be found here:

SUPERCARS.NET - Comprehensive Specifications, Galleries & Forums since 1996

The 'mystery car' on page one is now believed to be an interim paintjob on chassis #802.

I won't mind being proved wrong on this, but I suspect very strongly that I won't be.

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DR. Vahe owned 2. 1 light blue and 1 frog green.
He had them repainted. 1 black and 1 silver

Dick Marconi owned the RED one, don't know if he still owns it i heard it was N.Y.

Michael Sheehan had 2. 1 SILVER AND 1 ORANGE
I believe one was a real "S" and one wasn't but not sure.

Not sure how many xj220s total were made. i think 5 or 6

More info on the orange one...
1993 Jaguar XJ220 S Serial Number 220779 - main page

Originally Posted by PureSinClothing

DR. Vahe owned 2. 1 light blue and 1 frog green.
He had them repainted. 1 black and 1 silver

Dick Marconi owned the RED one, don't know if he still owns it i heard it was N.Y.

Michael Sheehan had 2. 1 SILVER AND 1 ORANGE
I believe one was a real "S" and one wasn't but not sure.

Not sure how many xj220s total were made. i think 5 or 6

JAGUAR XJ 220 S

Number History
779 Orange - sold to USA Original 540 cv engine

784 Was in Volvo Museum .Light Blue - sold to France .2001 sold to Vik USA for 150 000 $.Original engine 540 cv

793 Red - sold to UK

801 Race car unfinished,sold to my friend a racing driver who bought all the 220 .He finish the car in Green ,sold it and they repaint the car in Silver ,2000 sold to USA (the car IS NOT a 220 S)

802 Light Green appear in many magazines ,was the daily driver of my friend ,2000 sold to USA

803 Yellow.England

I would have just linked to the source, but it requires registration now. It's here if anyone cares to do so.

Those comments are slightly outdated - the red one is now the Marconi car. As you mention, the Light Blue and Light Green were painted and upgraded by Dr Vahe while he owned them. His black one is now in Arizona, and his gray one was (according to one source) seized by a bank and set to be auctioned recently. Neither the Orange one or the Yellow one could be Max's, and the Silver one that wasn't originally an S is less than 10 minutes from where I am sitting.

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