FS: rare sales!

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Gotbeefboy564
So I was watching Barrett Jackson Palm Beach and this came across the block.
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How did this get in the U.S.? It is streetable. It sold for $29,000.
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It could be this one that someone imported from Mexico?



HERE it listed on Barrett Jackson

It has plates from Mexico on it. It may not be legal to register it in the US.
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Group B 1983 Ferrari 308 GTB

http://www.gtc-collection-cars.com/historic-cars-for-sale/187-1983-ferrari-308-gtb-group-b-.html
This Ferrari 308 GTB Group B chassis no. is 18869 is the first of the only four Ferrari 308 GTB Group B built by Michelotto.

The car was completed in February 1983 for the Pro Motor Sport team in Italy.

This Ferrari 308 GTB Group B is considered as a "prototype" and the only one on the four cars with a two valves engine and a fiberglass body.

This car has an extremely interesting racing history, including:
1983 1st of the Sicilian Rally Championship
1984 1st of the Spanish Rally Championship
1984 3rd at the Targa Florio
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Heldenzeit
XJ-Ss are so cheap here on the left coast. A pristine low mile car will barely break $10k.
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If it hasn't been authenticated by Lister/TWR/Expert I wouldn't touch it. I've never seen a Lister go below $20,000 (and that was a beat up XJ-S with Lister kit) before. However, assuming it is, it's one hell of a steal.
An XJ-S may go for cheap but finding a Lister in the USA for less than 10k sounds fishy to me. Calling these rare is an understatement, and I'm not somebody who built them back in the day, but I could do a quite decent job of authenticating it. However I live in New Hampshire.
I hope it's real though. Just seeing a non-50's Lister in the US is quite a sight. But the price seems a little too good to me.
 
Lister_Storm
If it hasn't been authenticated by Lister/TWR/Expert I wouldn't touch it. I've never seen a Lister go below $20,000 (and that was a beat up XJ-S with Lister kit) before. However, assuming it is, it's one hell of a steal.
An XJ-S may go for cheap but finding a Lister in the USA for less than 10k sounds fishy to me. Calling these rare is an understatement, and I'm not somebody who built them back in the day, but I could do a quite decent job of authenticating it. However I live in New Hampshire.
I hope it's real though. Just seeing a non-50's Lister in the US is quite a sight. But the price seems a little too good to me.
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For sure. Did the factory built cars have any mechanical changes? Maybe they just bought the body parts separate.

EDIT: It looks like you could've bought the body parts separate. Still cool in my book.
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Heldenzeit
For sure. Did the factory built cars have any mechanical changes? Maybe they just bought the body parts separate.

EDIT: It looks like you could've bought the body parts separate. Still cool in my book.
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No doubt about coolness! The cars engines were tuned by TWR and suspension and other tunings by Lister themselves in England (which is why an American Lister is so rare) in multiple styles. A sort of aerodynamic package with some tuning, "System II", "System III", and "Le Mans" to mostily XJ-Ss, some very rare conversions to other Jags.

To answer your question; yes, most cars were done in Lister's factory.
 
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Heldenzeit
Jaguar XJS with Lister bodywork. It's local, I should buy it. @Lister_Storm

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/cto/5011643232.html
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^ I'd say meh and might be a fake. The body doesn't shout LISTER enough. If ever I'd want a Lister, it has to be in right-hand-drive. And when I ever had one, I'd PM @Lister_Storm and let him drive it casually and I'll WOT that thing while Lister_Storm is riding shotgun. lol :sly:


RocZX
2006 Citroën C6 in the US
http://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/cto/5011597565.html

I'm just interested to know how they imported and registered it in the US.

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^ The want is strong at this one! And practical too, it has that Euro-tow package!!!

-> Also the peeps at Jalopnik did an article of it!

:)👍
 
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The Vanishing Boy
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^ I'd say meh and might be a fake. The body doesn't shout LISTER enough. If ever I'd want a Lister, it has to be in right-hand-drive. And if I ever had one, I'd PM @Lister_Storm and let him drive it casually and I'll WOT that thing while Lister_Storm is riding shotgun. lol :sly:



^ The want is strong at this one! And practical too, it has that Euro-tow package!!!

-> Also the peeps at Jalopnik did an article of it!

:)👍
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Hell yeah!
 
The Vanishing Boy
^ I want to import that soooo bad! Will this be excepted from that 25-year BS?
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Couldn't you just put the Dodge parts on the front? I presume the bolt-holes are in the same place on the Chrysler?

RocZX
I'm just interested to know how they imported and registered it in the US.

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The boat only takes a couple of weeks to get to the US so the car probably suffered fewer than 8,000 massive electrical failures.

ShobThaBob
Now that is something I can get behind. Very very cool. It's not particularly good looking, but it's pretty darn cool.
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My favourite Merc shape - love it! :D
 
TenEightyOne
Haha, I didn't say it took a couple of weeks to do the paperwork :D A colleague (French) had one and he loved it when it worked, which wasn't very often unfortunately :)
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I'm not talking about how long the paperwok or how long it took to get in the US by boat.There is a 25 year ban on car imported to the US.( The link I posted talks about), that Citroen is from 2006.
If you read the article on Jalopnik that The Vanishing boy posted , the owner did want to say how he imported the car. The only way you can get a car before 25 year is on a Show and display law but the car has to be rare model ( the Citroen C6 is not) and the other way is if you know people and pay them off.
 
RocZX
I'm not talking about how long the paperwok or how long it took to get in the US by boat.There is a 25 year ban on car imported to the US.( The link I posted talks about), that Citroen is from 2006..
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Ah, I'd completely misunderstood... I hadn't realised how absolute the law was, I thought it was just a bit complicated. Reading up on it I see it's impenetrably complex and mostly untraversable :)
 

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