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MG MG Y Type - YB For Sale

Browsing the web and spotted not one but two Ys for sale.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C231474

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C218974

Please note I have no connection with either of these cars.
D G Avery

http://www.sherwoodrestorations.co.uk/portfolio/cars-for-sale/

The above will take you to the YB sale, in Nottingham.
R E Knight

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1954-MG-YB-Classic-Vintage-British-Car-Fully-Restored-/270766522223?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3f0af13f6f

Sure this car been on eBay before but on again reserve not met £6,000 no bids time of writing.
R E Knight

Allan Parker, former owner of HSV 268, told me on Sunday that the interest in his YA was tremendous and he sold it on Saturday for close to the asking price. It is going back to Yorkshire, a few miles from where he bought it. The ad on the Car and Classic website attracted hundreds of views.

This seems to emphasise the recent posts on another thread about the increasing interest and values of Y Types. It is encouraging, especially in the current economic climate in the UK.

It seems only right considering that, until recently Y Types were worth little more than Austin 7s or Morris 8s, which were made, and survive, in much greater numbers than Ys. They were also much more basic cars, costing when new a fraction of the price of a new Y Type, which was probably the equivalent of the BMW 3 Series today, much prized as 'executive' transport!

I did not buy mine as an investment, but it is nice to know that, when I am too old to enjoy it, I might make a modest profit.

Mike
M Long

I bought the YB from Sherwood Restorations.

Car seems to be in reasonable condition. Interior has been completed renovated and general bodywork appears in good shape for a sixty year old. Price probably on the high side but I did not buy car as an investment or daily driver, I just got the urge to have a real car with running boards. Looks and drives nineteen thirties but it turns more heads than my twenty-first century ride. There is no fool like an old fool and this MG takes me back to my youth when I had a succession of old bangers: pre-war Morris Eights, Ford Tens and Eights, a 1948 Triumph 2000 with dickie seat. At least when you weren't driving there was something to work on.

The car is really growing on me, My wife thinks I have a new mistress as I have called car Sabrina, no not a teenage witch, but I am sure that men of a certain age will remember the well endowed actress of that name. Something to do with prominent headlights.

Regards all

Mick
M C Bath

I recall reading this thread and am pleased to see that Mick is obviously enjoying his new love. I would add that the Car and Classic website is an excellent means of buying and selling a classic. I placed my TA on the site at the beginning of July and over the four weeks it was posted the advert was visted 1800 times and I had around 20 interested punters from Italy, France, Germany, Holland and the UK and developed a 'friendship' with a number of them after several long and detailed e-mails. It finally went to a chap in Hertfordshire.

The beauty of the Car and Classic website is that you can place as much text as you wish and include up to 6 photos, all of which you can change at any time and its free! So it's a handy source of information.

As most of us buy our MG's to enjoy, the only car I ever sold for a profit was a Morris Minor (bought for £40 - £30 spent and sold for £75 - so a fiver - and that was in 1974!) Our first YA cost £95 in 1972 and was sold for £1400 in 1979 - quite a profit one might think. Not really though we reckoned that with everything spent including purchase, repairs, fuel and insurance - we had 7 years 'free' motoring - although the mileage we did was probably no more than 1000 miles a year. Even though it was my daily driver in London and Jo used it everyday to drive to school for 4 years in the late seventies.

The expenditure may seem a lot at the time but the returns in experiences, friendships, joy and fun are huge and any monetary gain (if at all) is a benefit.
Just use them as both Mike and Mick are - well done lads!

All the best

Jerry
J P BIRKBECK

Hi Jerry

you are right about car ownership and friendship. In the short time that I have had Sabrina I have already met several local MG enthusiasts with the local chapter of the MGCC as well as chatting with other experts in places as diverse as Oxfordshire to Washington State!

Have uploaded a couple of pics to show off big headlights etc.

Car spoke to me the first time I saw her. The odometer was reading my RAF service number, spooky or what!

Regards

Mick

M C Bath

Though she does have nice eyes it's her big hooters that grab my attention.
Saul Duck

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