2016-09-23 00:26:30 | pauls writes:

Car was at auction 9/16
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Auction description:
Lot number 77
Sale Price £5,800
Make & Model Jaguar XJ6L 4.2 Automatic
Registration JKV 70N
Year 1975
Colour Red
Chassis No. 2T13194BW
Engine No. 8L17532S
Documents V5C; five old MOTs; handbooks; two workshop manuals; wiring and lubrication charts

As the original Passport to Service book confirms, this particular XJ6L was supplied new by Saville Motors Ltd of Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1975. It then had two owners before being acquired by the vendor from Chester Road Motors of Kidderminster in October 1979 for £3,500 at which point it had covered some 40,000 miles (purchase invoice on file).

A Jaguar enthusiast, he kept the car garaged and used it in fine weather only, clocking up another 15,000 miles in the next five years before sadly falling ill in 1984 at which point the car was put into storage. Here it was to remain for the next 32 years in a nice dry garage attached to the family home.

Towed out of the garage shortly before the auction in order to take these photos, it remains in very good and totally original condition throughout, the red paintwork still looking bright, the chrome very presentable and the bodywork virtually unmarked apart from some minor bubbling on both rear wheelarches.

The biscuit leather interior remains in excellent shape, as do the carpets, the furflex and the majority of the woodwork with just a few cracks in the varnish on the glovebox lid. The headlining is also excellent with none of the sagging that usually afflicts Jaguars from this era. No attempt has been made to start the car so the mechanical condition is unknown although it was reportedly running beautifully when laid up in 1984.

The 54,486 miles displayed is the genuine distance covered from new, backed up by five old MOTs from 1979 to 1984 and three stamps in the service book up to 20,996 miles in May 1977. The V5C records just four owners, the car being transferred into the late-owner's widow's name in June 2015. Two workshop manuals are also included (Haynes and Autobooks) along with the original owner's handbook, Passport to Service book, Sharp radio cassette instruction booklet, wiring diagram, air conditioning wiring diagram and a lubrication chart.

Wonderfully original in all respects, this lovely old Series Two XJ6L could be turned into a real show-stopper with very little effort and is being offered here at no reserve so the highest bid takes it home.

2016-09-30 18:23:56 | pauls writes:

Sale Price £5,800