Land Rover Series II and IIA values: the 88 and 109 level, the IIA premium, and a market that has halved
What the Series II and IIA sells for at auction
In 2025 the median Series II and IIA sold for £11,475 across 114 sales, 13% down on 2024. In real terms, typical Series II and IIA prices were down about 43% over the five years to 2025, once inflation is accounted for.
| Variant | Sold | Typical range | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series IIA 88 | 304 | £9,736 - £24,333 | £16,668 |
| Series IIA | 148 | £5,508 - £16,592 | £9,220 |
| Series IIA 109 | 119 | £10,179 - £26,907 | £16,691 |
| Series II 88 | 84 | £7,272 - £20,428 | £12,114 |
| Series II | 70 | £6,164 - £16,012 | £9,640 |
| Series II 109 | 20 | £6,422 - £21,235 | £12,350 |
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| Year | Sold | Median | In 2025 money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 55 | £13,283 | |
| 2025 | 114 | £11,475 | £11,475 |
| 2024 | 94 | £13,209 | £13,716 |
| 2023 | 110 | £16,139 | £17,319 |
| 2022 | 80 | £15,726 | £18,010 |
| 2021 | 79 | £17,879 | £22,108 |
| 2020 | 60 | £15,900 | £20,149 |
| 2019 | 38 | £12,156 | £15,561 |
| 2018 | 26 | £10,171 | £13,241 |
| 2017 | 32 | £11,595 | £15,445 |
| 2016 | 15 | £11,214 | £15,322 |
| 2015 | 10 | £11,718 | £16,172 |
| 2014 | 11 | £6,901 | £9,562 |
| 2013 | 10 | £8,050 | £11,313 |
| 2011 | 9 | £2,070 | £3,052 |
- £28,047Series IIA 109
- £17,140Series IIA 88
- £10,701Series IIA 88
- £7,000Series II 109
- £4,032Series IIA 109
Strong evidence. 747 recorded sales and a dozen or more a year: the median and the range are well founded. Based on 747 sold results from public classic car auctions (2005 to 10 August 2026). Sold prices, not asking prices, and not a valuation: condition, history and specification vary from car to car. Inflation-adjusted figures use the ONS CPIH index, in 2025 money.
The Series II and IIA are the Land Rovers the sale rooms see most, and Land Rover Series 2 values, as the searches put it, are a large and honest record: 747 recorded sales since 2005, about 95 a year lately, at a median of £13,700, with the middle half between £7,700 and £22,000. Three-quarters of the cars offered find a buyer. The spread runs from a £230 rolling project to £125,800 for one exceptional 109 in America, and most of the record is an ordinary IIA 88, restored once, sold in Britain or through the online auctions to someone who wants a Land Rover that looks like a Land Rover.
The Series II and IIA model guide covers the two cars, the headlamp move, the engines and what to check. This page is about the money, and about a market that has given back a decade of gains.
IIA over II, and 88 level with 109
The variant table on this page puts figures on the two questions every buyer asks. The IIA of 1961 to 1971 sells for more than the Series II of 1958 to 1961: the IIA 88, the biggest line in the record with 304 sales, has a median of £16,700 and the IIA 109 the same £16,700 across 119, against £12,100 for a Series II 88 and £12,400 for a Series II 109. The reasons are the usual ones, that the IIA is the more usable car with the better engines and the bigger following, and that the Series II’s rarity only pays at the very top, where an original early car with its first engine becomes a collector’s piece rather than a working one.
The other question, 88 or 109, the market declines to answer: the two wheelbases sit level at the median and within a few hundred pounds of each other in the Series II. The 88 is the one most people want to drive and the 109 the one with the room; the 109 pulls ahead only at the top, where the station wagons, the rare forward-control and the American sales live, and costs more to restore on the way there. The cars the source never narrowed beyond “Series IIA” or “Series II”, 218 of them at £9,200 and £9,600, are mostly the projects and the working cars, and they pull the overall median below the figures for the identified ones.
What moves the price of a Series Land Rover
The chassis. A Series II is an aluminium body on a steel ladder chassis, and the chassis rots at the rear crossmember, the outriggers, the spring hangers and the dumb irons, while the panels above it look fine; a car on a sound or galvanised chassis, with the receipts, sits in the upper half of its range whatever the paint, and a car with a welded-up frame is a project whatever it looks like. The bulkhead is next, rotting at the footwells and the door pillars, and a documented replacement adds more than any cosmetic work. The engines, the 2.25 petrol and diesel and the 2.6 six, are simple and well supported and move the price least.
Then what the car is. A seven-seat 88 station wagon or a twelve-seat 109 carries a clear premium over a utility, and an early IIA with the headlamps still in the grille over a later one with them in the wings; a genuine soft-top with a good tilt over a hard-top of the same date. Originality counts: the correct engine, the original wheels and lamps, the period colour and the galvanised cappings all add, and a Series III gearbox, a later engine or a modern coil-sprung conversion takes away. Mileage, on a vehicle that has usually worked for its living and been restored at least once, means almost nothing.
Half the value it had in 2021
The chart shows the Series II riding the 2010s and the pandemic and giving most of it back. The yearly median was around £11,000 through the middle of the 2010s, £15,900 in 2020 and £17,900 in 2021, the peak, and then £15,700 in 2022, £16,100 in 2023, £13,200 in 2024 and £11,500 in 2025, with the 2026 figure so far a little above that. Restated in today’s money, a Series II is worth about half what it was in 2021.
Two things are happening. The record has changed shape, with the online auctions bringing far more ordinary and unrestored cars to sale than the catalogued auctions ever did, and a median built on those is lower than one built on restored station wagons. And the pandemic boom in anything old with a Land Rover badge has ended, more sharply for the leaf-sprung cars than for the Defender, whose younger buyers have stayed. The good early cars and the station wagons have held up; the ordinary working IIA, which is most of the record, has not, and a sound one is cheaper in real terms than it has been for ten years.
Where Series IIs change hands
The record is split between Britain and North America in a way the Defender’s is not. The British sale rooms, from the Midlands to the north and the south-west, and the British online platforms sell the working cars and the projects, and a single week in late July 2026 shows the range: a Series II 109 at £7,000 at a Yorkshire sale, an IIA 109 at £4,000 in the south. The American online auctions sell the restored cars, and the same fortnight produced an IIA 109 at £28,000 and IIA 88s at £17,100 and £10,700 there. The very top of the market is American too, and the six-figure sales tell a British buyer nothing about the car in front of them. Whether a recorded price includes the buyer’s premium varies by sale, which is one more reason to read the usual range rather than any single result.
Insuring, restoring, selling
For an agreed-value policy a good IIA belongs around its median and a restored station wagon in the upper half of the range; an original early Series II is insured on its own figure. On restoration the arithmetic is the chassis’s: a replacement galvanised chassis and a bulkhead cost more than the difference between a project and a good car, so the right buy is the car with that work done, and the project is for the owner who wants the doing of it. If you are selling, the spring and early summer are the season, the photograph that sells the car is of the chassis rather than the paint, and the honest expectation for an ordinary IIA is its median, not the figure a restored wagon fetched in 2021.
Related
The Series II sits between the Series I, which sells for a little more at the median and far more at the top, and the Series III, which sells for a little less; the Defender that followed all three now sells for more than twice as much. For the decade, see British classic cars of the 1960s. For how all the figures on this site are compiled, see what classic cars sell for.
