7 British Cars That Were WORTHLESS in the 1980s. Now They're Worth a Fortune.

7 British Cars That Were WORTHLESS in the 1980s. Now They're Worth a Fortune. In October 1984, a handwritten receipt for £5,750 bought an Aston Martin DB5, the James Bond car. Today the middle of the DB5 market is over half a million pounds. Here are seven British cars the market treated as old junk in the early 1980s, with the real price each one fetched then and what it brings now. Why a restored Jaguar XK120 was worth less than its own restoration bill in 1984 The £3,500 Lotus Elan Sprint and the Mazda Miata that sent everyone looking for one The Gordon-Keeble GK1: a Chevy V8, a Giugiaro body and a tortoise badge, for £5,000 How £5,000 bought almost any Jaguar E-type in 1982, and the Aston DB4 that cost the same The Bond submarine Lotus Esprit that sold for about $100 in a storage unit, then about $997,000 History and entertainment only. Prices and figures are period estimates. Subscribe for more of the strange, ugly and forgotten cars, and tell me in the comments what your dad drove. Aston Martin DB5, Jaguar E-type, Lotus Esprit Wet Nellie, Gordon-Keeble, Lotus Elan Sprint, classic car prices