It's not a Mark IV. It is actually its prewar predecessor SS of about 1938 - a much rarer model than the Mk IV. Body design and mechanicals are mostly similar and often interchangeable. The more obvious telltale differences are the external spare wheel on the left wing and the door handles in the door panels instead of in the chrome trim. These and many other subtle differences were changed for 1939 and were then carried over to the 1945 to 1948 Mark IV models. This post-war time was also when the Jaguar stand-alone brand name came into being because they could not use the SS term because of its connotation with the war. Putting this film depiction into context, a 1930s or 1940s car in 1961 was just an old car, almost worthless, much superseded and extremely outdated by comfort, performance, reliability, and technological improvements. Nobody was repairing or restoring them, so the parts were generally unwanted. Then, they were not classics. The same relative desire exists today - if we have an economic choice, we prefer not to buy a 1990s car for all the same reasons. If anyone had a choice in 1961 they would not buy one of these or anything like them (except my brother, who had to in 1962 because he could not afford anything better).

@zorroalphonso4354

7 жыл бұрын

Car technology evolved more between the 40's and the 60's than between the 1990's and the 2010's. So the argument of "relative desires" is moot.

@richardbradbury9105

5 жыл бұрын

In the comments here let’s forget the 90s comparisons the film is more about the SS and Mark 4 Jaguar, far more beautiful than any 80s 90s naughties and so on cars ever will be

@lewis72

4 жыл бұрын

@@zorroalphonso4354 Utter rubbish, the argument of "relative desires" is valid even if the change in vehicle technology between the start and end of the two eras is not the same.

@admiralcraddock464

3 жыл бұрын

I Agree. Just look at car chase scenes in 1970s films MK2 Jags were the cars of choice to be blown up after crashing into a pile of boxes. In the 1975 film Brannigan a 4.2 E type was hurled into the rover Thames to explode.

@stewartw.9151

3 жыл бұрын

I bought a 1946 MGTC in running condition in 1966, complete but with bad paintwork. It had been painted with a brush in a sickly green by the farmer in Hexham, England who owned it. I drove it home and resprayed it in blue and ran it for a year almost problem free. I paid 80 quid for it, as such 20 year old crocks then were worth nothing much. Sold it for 140 quid, thought I made a killing! The reg was HYX 974 - anyone seen it lately?

Aaaaaaahhhhh, that Jag would be worth a fortune today!!

@calum4243

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree!

Dudes had style back then, wearing a suit using a cutting torch lol...

@OffGridInvestor

4 жыл бұрын

The whole British thing of wearing a tie went right thru probably into the 80s. I mean even the butcher would wear a tie. But I did notice he had a suit jacket on while using the cutting torch. Some were "sports jackets" which look like a suit but not quite consider as dressing up. Bit like a tweed jacket. Farmers go out to shoot a few rabbits in a tweed jacket which is like a crap color suit. Many older farmers still wear them today.

@Magnetron33

3 жыл бұрын

and tie!

@squirehaggard4749

2 жыл бұрын

@@Magnetron33 kept the draughts out outside and in the mostly un-centrally heated buildings. Plus an open collar looked untidy.

Why do I feel like a just witnessed a murder

@pierrechristian6767

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@robinburn4974

3 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing a mark 10 in my local scrapers years ago nothing wrong with it but my goodness it was big😂

@redprince3158

3 жыл бұрын

Agree

@deanmarskell1518

Жыл бұрын

Even without sound that car was screaming help me looks like many useable parts were just destroyed what a waste.

@christopherhampson265

Жыл бұрын

Geezer with a gas axe wearing a tie and whistle !!!☻☻

Heartbreaking. That car was of a far better design and quality than much of the trash being sold new in showrooms in 1961...saw another reel of a 1957 Vauxhall Victor completely rusted out and abandoned in 1963.

@nitsu2947

Жыл бұрын

yeah we scrapped second hand 10 year old Corollas and Fords like they're worth nothing, our sons and grandsons will say the same thing to us, we'd scrap old 2010's classics left and right and left them with the 2050s crap

At today's prices, £60,000 - 225,000. During the 1973 oil crisis I used to watch all - MkII Jaguar banger racing. Some of them had less than 50k on the clock, but were too thirsty to keep so were scrapped. Many beautiful cars reduced to wrecks. Worth a fortune now. Such is life!

@jonathangriffin1120

5 жыл бұрын

A guy I worked with in the eighties used to do a bit of banger racing in the seventies, his favorite car was an Austin Westminster or Wolseley 6/110 with a 3 speed box, second gear being the ideal ratio on a tight oval.

How can you watch this ill fated classic go to its doom in the local scrap yard, and not shed a tear or two, Imagine a modern classic car restorer seeing this, Does not bear thinking about.

That tow truck looks to be in worse shape than the car it was bringing in .

@halopro8958

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it looks like it’s about to fall apart. No doubt it has met the same fate as its haul.

@tellmesomething2go

5 жыл бұрын

Worse thing in the yard.

@chrishamilton2559

5 жыл бұрын

Ah, but it *ran*.

@tellmesomething2go

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrishamilton2559 you call that running.

@chrishamilton2559

5 жыл бұрын

@@tellmesomething2go you children know nothing of the concept of *work* or the associated tools thereof.

Except it's not a Jaguar Mk 4. The side mounted spare means it's a 1936 or 1937 SS Jaguar saloon. These cars were wooden framed; the 1938 and following cars were all-steel bodied with the spare in a compartment under the boot floor. Which is part of how Lyons was able to keep the costs down. I see Peter Lloyd has made a similar observation.

I'm just thankful that the followed all safety precautions while using those torches.

@Magnetron33

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah at least his tie didn't catch fire

All he had to do, was to clean dead flies outta the radiator, and (possibly) completely remove the thermostat.

Billy, you are on camera tomorrow! Ok, Dave... I'll wear my best suit when cutting up that old jag!

Too bad! A classic body style. Very nice design . Looked like the leather interior might have been intact as well.

That interior was in great shape. Tragic...

The Jag driver was Bob Wellings. You know, from BBC 1's 'Nationwide'? That was an early evening light news programme from the late sixties to the early eighties. If you wanted to see a skateboarding duck, or a man standing on an egg without breaking it, that was the show for you.

@phillipecook3227

3 жыл бұрын

Aha. Recognise him now.

@florjanbrudar692

2 жыл бұрын

He died recently, 14 days ago.

@MrClingclong

2 жыл бұрын

@@florjanbrudar692 I'm sorry to hear that.

@markiesmith4537

Жыл бұрын

That's right! Bob Wellings! I understand that he had a fondness for American cars as well and by the 1970's had a small collection of full size Cadillacs, all of them fairly new rather than '40s and '50s classics - one of which was a beautiful 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood!

This is the reason they're worth so much now.

4.20, "hey, mate, let me shower you with sparks yet again!"

The tow truck looks about ready for the scrap heap aswel

I'm currently restoring a 1959 Jaguar Mk1 like the car overtaking at the beginning of the video.

@raccoon681

6 жыл бұрын

how much is it worth

@blackvulcan100

6 жыл бұрын

I had a mark1 TGH 175 saw it in a scrap yard Cheltenham Road Gloucester in the 7o's.What I remember was the rear wheels were wider than the front and made the car very skiddish.Jags of that age were so desitable then so nice to see you are restoring one,plenty of mark 2 not so many mark 1.

@nigelcharlton-wright1747

5 жыл бұрын

Have you completed the restoration of you Mk1 yet? Nice looking car.

@squirehaggard4749

2 жыл бұрын

Related to this film/comments there's a celebrated bit of stock footage used in old ITC programmes (Randall & Hopkirk, The Saint, etc) of a white Mk1 hurtling off a cliff. So whenever you saw a character climbing into a white Mk1 (or 2) you knew what was coming. You can find it on KZread.

Beautiful looking car.

Can you imagine the mess thousands of old 'classic' cars would make. Plus if they had all been saved they would be worthless today because they would not be rare or novel. Although money can be made from old cars, the storage costs eat up a good part of that and good luck finding someone to fix them properly and at a fair price.

people's wasteful attitudes have not changed a bit, we never learn...

This is murder

Cutting a car apart while wearing suit and tie :-D

@twoeightythreez

7 жыл бұрын

Sohave No goggles and a cutting torch...lol dude gonna go blind

@rogerwilco4736

4 жыл бұрын

Reckon the poms did everything in a suit and tie those days, even sex

@OffGridInvestor

4 жыл бұрын

@@rogerwilco4736 butchers wore ties even in the 80s. STILL TODAY old farmers were tweed jackets which look like crap color suits.

@squirehaggard4749

2 жыл бұрын

@@rogerwilco4736 Birthday suit and tie lol

Been brought up in a scrap car yard in the 70s and visiting many other yards i find nothing surprising in this film even though it was made a decade or so earlier. Big old cars in the early 70s were value less as petrol was expensive and our yard cut up many jags, daimlers, humbers , mercs etc etc for scrap. Breakdown trucks run on trade plates with no MOT and we only fixed ours when it stopped or parts fell off or brake pipes burst! . Many of older generation scrap men wore ties and old suit jackets for work as i remember and this film and methods are a joy to watch i would gladly go back there NOW to these times before the f__king environment agency was thought off

@gregtaylor6146

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, much better when YOU could just take a car in and remove it's drain plugs, releasing oil and ethylene glycol straight onto the mud/ watercourse eh???? CR3TIN!!!

Imagine if that Jaguar had been dry stored in 1961. It would emerge as a barn find nearly 60 years later in original condition to make big money

@None-zc5vg

3 жыл бұрын

...but there's not much gain in sitting it out for 60 years just to see a car appreciate in value.

@FenderTele

3 жыл бұрын

@@None-zc5vg very true it should have been enjoyed over the years

Plenty of “welder’s eye” there then!

cars have feelings

The old Bedford army truck look's as if it should have gone to the breakers yard too. Look at the state of it! My goodness a pity that the MkIV ended up being broken.

@johnfellows2867

5 жыл бұрын

A haulage company I worked at in the 1960's had two of these Bedford's. Bought from MOD auctions as artics, then fitted with tipper bodies to deliver coal and clay .

Remember scrapyards, which were quite common then were interesting places to look around, remember now, 20s cars being parked up with opening windscreens, features Id never seen before

Safety equipment?? Ha Ha We don't need no stinkin' safety equipment!

That tow truck was probably ex WD. We had one in 1952, thought that was the bees knees. We never did a suspended tow like in the film, we always had a chain from the car to the truck to stop the car swinging about and if it did break loose the chain would stop it doing damage to other road users. This film brought back so many memory's, did you notice that all the tyres were bald. The bloke knew how to use a oxy.propane gun, you can tell that from the way that he didnt press the trigger down fully, the suit was just for the film.

@davidjones332

3 жыл бұрын

The square-face Bedford M-type was only built for the forces, as a 15 cwt truck, with the similar O-type as a 3-tonner, artic tractor etc. Many were in service long after the war, and I remember they were everywhere in the 1950s and 60s as coal lorries, wreckers etc.

@None-zc5vg

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidjones332 Many of those flat-fronted Bedfords retained the tow-bar that came with the military spec.

UEA EAFA = University of East Anglia. East Anglia Film Archive. Top chaps !

Some of the cars iv'e scrapped in the 35 years that i have been driving makes me sick, worth a good few thousand now some of them even as a scrapper :'(

4:35 - bent windshield Pre-A. And can't imagine scrapyard workers wearing a suit and tie, even then.

Very smartly dressed car breakers!.

Couple of questions. Why would you set it on fire? And secondly, why the hell would you buy another Jag?

This is funny: car breakers working in suit and tie... but no safety goggles!

1:09-2:21 I really want to cry now... Why did I start my day with this? Edit: I just found that Bob Wellings, the Jaguar driver in the video died 14 days ago.

Heartbreaking....

Fabulous English! Son chapeau melon s'est transformé en haut-de-forme...

Interesting video, today that Jag would have been a treasure. I wonder which cars of today that we will regret getting rid of in the future.

@RivieraByBuick

7 жыл бұрын

all the expensive ones. nothing changed.

@Vakito227

7 жыл бұрын

Except luxury/sports cars, none of them I suspect. Cars these days lack character and are basically moving chairs with sat navs. You'll often see for example people who grew up in the 60s look and smile when they see a car from their youth go past, you wouldn't catch me looking and smiling in 50 years time when someone drives past in say, a seat ibiza.

@Sohave

7 жыл бұрын

I think another problem is the way they manufacture them. They are not made to be taken apart and be put back together, that will discourage people from restoring them: I managed to take the windscreen out of a Peugeot 205 to repair some rust around the window seam but when my mothers Peugeot 306 needed the same work done the window was glued in place and could not be taken out, so I never repaired that rust.

@Turboy65

7 жыл бұрын

If every car had been saved, they'd have no value and we'd have consumed most of our metal resources to keep cars around that nobody is even driving, assuming they even run. Only scarcity preserves the value of the ones that are left anyway.

@Sohave

6 жыл бұрын

@johnsoncm65 Not entirely true, the market is what preserves the value. and scarcity is only one of many factors that determines the market. People still restore UAZ Hunter and Landrover Defender despite the fact that one is still in production and the other just came out of production a few years ago and non of those are scarce in their markets.

Destroying an old automobile is never a good idea.

A thing of beauty is a JOY FOREVER

4:34 Ah yes, a shiny new Mk1; that'll be much more reliable ......

And to think a new radiator or hoses and this classic would probably be good for the road again.

Bob Wellings is the chap with the bowler - went on to present Nationwide

Owning a nearly 30yr old car in 1961 would of been embarrassing, didn't matter what make!

The towing truck seems to be in worse condition than the Jaguar 😉

No eye protection but he's wearing a necktie!

Lets not forget that rare ex army bedford tow truck that was cool as well .

Thats the way ! If the cat doesn't listen , toast her ! 😂

Che furbo che è stato a demolire quella macchina ! Ed anche il rottamaio un'altra bella volpe !

3:27 worst thing to ever do to a car ;-(

Albion truck. They seemed to have lasted for years..

He appears to have bought the same Jag that overtook him at the beginning of the film, hard to make out the numberplate but it looks the same.

Back then it was just another old jalopy! How many priceless classics were scrapped because they had no value at the time...

I can't watch this .....

In today's market that car would probably be over 500 to a million dollars you gotta wonder these guys didn't know any better or neither did we

Sad to see this video It's a lot better then my 1928 reo and I want to restore my rusty saludos amigos desde baja California CCC

*SO SAD*

It's usually easier to keep a car like that intact and take parts off as they are needed.

Must be a racing car, look a at those slicks (half tyres)

To get rid of the interior....set it on fire!

Guy I worked with had an ss jaguar only one I've ever seen

This breaks my heart. A pre war SS Jag being terminated. The quality of materials far exceeded the later saloon.

it was only about 11-12 years old too! cars didnt last long then

worth a fortune today

Damn they couldn't fix stupid even in 1961.. just cut up 80 k ..lol 😆

The tow truck is an Ex military Bedford. Quite collectible even in the 70's. Probably had a huge winch in the back of the bed too. Morris also built a version with the same front sheet metal . That was designed to be made quickly and cheaply by outside sources during the war.

"Inspector Morse ups his auto game". (Today that old MKIV, restored can sell for near 200,000 dollars. The "new" Mark 2? 50k or so )

@JohnPaul-qs2qf

3 жыл бұрын

No it doesn’t. It sells for whatever someone feels it may be worth to them. the amount of restoration done, The receipts for said restoration, and most importantly, how long ago the restoration was completed. just because something is old doesn’t guarantee a sale for such high prices or that you own a goldmine.

That tow truck was missing head lamps :)

thats a better service than the AA

What a shame to see that. It's a murder.

I trust all the fluids have been sucked out and drained.its hard to emagine a new car ever being a collecters item 50 yrs on.

Thats another fine mess

No eye protection? They are big on safety!

All I can really say is, it suffered a better fate than modern cars. Instead of just crushing it on the spot, they take it to pieces to see what they can use, and cut up the rest like an old steamer. I suppose I can kind of see why they burned out the interior, but at the same time I can’t. Yall could’ve sold that stuff.

I'm very sad watching this video.

It's funny everyone talks about saving and restoring anything but very few actually do it. Ready to devote many thousands of dollars and many many working hours? Yeah, didn't think so.

So sad...

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Noooooooooooo 😢😢

PLEASE TELL US THIS IS A JOKE. THIS IS NEVER ALLOWED. THERE CAN BE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR THIS!

Absolute fools scrapping that. If they had put it in a barn and left it for me to find today....

Good example of the throw away society we are today. Some stuff is junk and not worth saving, true. But "oh the rad went" buy a new one, "oh I'm tired of looking at it, buy a new one" Not just cars but anything, it leads to over consuming.

@lewis72

5 жыл бұрын

My daily driver is 16 years old with 185k miles on it. I've had it since June 2011 when it had 82k miles on it.

@crushingvanessa3277

5 жыл бұрын

@@lewis72 Nothing wrong with that. People put that many on in a new car and trade it in right away. Any vehicle can survive if it's taken care of, not sure about the computers in them, but the mechanicals would.

That was painful to watch..

It's actually a pre-war SS...even more of a shame it got scrapped.

4:32 I thought my phone was broken

This clip is from 1961??

Tow truck in worse state than your mota. What u thinking dood

The lorry pulling it into the yard is in worse condition! Sir William will be turning in his grave!

So sad

what happend to those leather seats?!

@pompetti

6 жыл бұрын

there burnt

@eddiebaker3267

6 жыл бұрын

mario pompetti What happened to proper grammar? Also a thing of the past.

At 4.17 suit and tie to torch a car!? The brits overdress for the occasion!lol🤣

@livingalpujarras

3 жыл бұрын

I have 6 old suits just found a use for them lol

Separating the trim from the metal with 🔥 😂

No, i cabt watch, its horrendous

shame to burn... as there Was some usefull body panels in that car

@SURENITY

6 жыл бұрын

Birol Djoshan and leather.!!

WHYYY

Such a shame but these now classics were used and literally run into the ground, I think people kept car's longer in those day's and of course there was no M.O.T.the spare wheel on the Jag was completely bald, vehicles were just discarded back then and,were I live there was an old chalk stone quarry and it was used for what we call today landfill and I know for a fact there's two,Jowet Javelin's a,Humber Hawk and a Standard Vanguard and god know's how many motorcycles all down there never to be seen again.