Good to read of your save,well done. I have always been impressed with the pics of Javelins with 4 air to air missiles mounted,wonder if this could be done? Did you know that the Javelin helped with Concorde trials? The last one flying used to run air sampling flights over Cardigan Bay, Concorde would do a supersonic run north to south and the Javelin would then fly in the opposite direction into the wake and then dash back to Boscombe with the air samples.

This is the example now at Duxford: circa 1972 the first and only time I saw a Javelin in the air!

…so does anyone know if the JAM Javelin is the ‘Yatesbury’ one?

Box was XH767, now Elvington.

Aha. So which was the ex-Yatesbury Jav?

Don’t worry too much about visiting ‘Stonedhenge’ – Avebury is just up the road and is really nice : )

Too true! If Stonehenge is a church then Avebury is a cathedral.

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These are not the reasons why people bay $35 to $50 million for vintage cars. Not even close.

Kenneth is on the button: it’s why racers such as GTOs (with minimal history of note) fetch more than double or triple Le Mans winners: degrees of the ‘which one can you drive to the shops?’ statement.

Daft but true: Spitfires and other historic aircraft come in the same bracket as impractical historic racers (vs racers and other autos which are less impractical). As a rule, if you can use it on the road and has two seats or more, then it will cost more than a monposto, irrespective of the latter’s history. It’s one reason why Irvine Laidlaw got rid of a lot of his collection a while back – got rid of the cars he couldn’t easily drive on the road that is. By no coincidence, those which he retained just happened to be those that would have a high price tag.

As for cars (automobiles), originality is often a factor: I suspect Connie Edwards’ aircraft would render a higher price if so.