I have a JV 62 precison.
I have owned it from new.
It hardly ever gets played anymore - I far prefer my yellow Warmoth P for playability.
I really cannot see what all the fuss is about - it was a particularly cheap ( was it £129 or £149 I paid ? I can't remember) budget bass at the time.
The story is that the JV series was better built than contemporary US Fenders - that may be so but early 80s Fenders were awful, so that wasn't hard, was it?
I really ought to cash in while the going's good but despite its inflated 'value' that won't happen - we've been through too much together.