• Original bottle of champagne from the supplying dealer included!
The Appeal
Jaguar’s X300 XJ6 marked a return to the more traditional styling favoured by its core customer base at the time and, with its 3.2 litre straight six, is the perfect way to waft. The best examples are becoming increasingly collectable and you’ll struggle to find a better preserved car than this one. With just 23,785 miles on the clock, it’s hardly been used yet has been pampered all its life.
Indeed, it’s hard to find an area of the car that’s aged at all since it left the factory. The under bonnet toolkit is still in its cellophane wrapping, all the manuals and a brochure are there and it even comes with a branded bottle of champagne that was gifted to the first owner by the supplying dealer.
Opportunities like this rarely come up so if you’re a collector or indeed someone that fancies running a modern classic with only a couple of years’ worth of mileage on the clock, then get bidding now.
For a well-used car, cream can be a brave choice for the upholstery. Easily marked, it takes a lot of maintenance to keep it looking fresh. Here, however, we can see just how charmed a life this car has lived. For the comfortable cream leather seats look almost as good as new, the wood veneer is unmarked and even the carpets look like they’ve just left the factory. (The latter point is helped by rubber mats added over the carpet items to ensure that they continue to look pristine).
The headlining is clean, secure and taut and all of the buttons, switches and dials function as they should. This includes the radio (with automatic aerial) which is the only thing that’s not completely original on the car, having been swapped for a replacement unit when it came out of storage. The air conditioning blows cold, and the first aid kit is even still present in the boot. In short, it looks almost new.
Finished in a rich hue known as Sapphire Blue, the car is a real stunner. The paintwork has a deep lustre, the panels are all straight and there’s mirror-like chrome work to match. Some of its condition can be attributed to the care of the current owner who has polished it any time that it’s been out in the rain during his and his father in law’s ownership. But prior to that it must have been used very gently as there’s almost no signs of use. Underneath it’s the same story, with little to show for its age.
There are a couple of non-standard additions: the cross spoke alloys were an expensive option specified when the car was new, and the chrome mirror caps were added by the seller’s father in law who employed a main dealer to fit them at considerable expense. The wheels are pristine and wear tyres that have plenty of tread all round, although with such limited use it’s possible that they may be a little past their best before date at this stage. In all, though, it’s in remarkable condition and will justifiably make its next owner very proud.
As you’ve probably deduced from the condition of the rest of the car, it’s clearly not had a hard life. So it’s no surprise to learn from the seller that it drives as well as it would have done when it was new. Always kept on a trickle charger, it starts first time and ticks over almost silently. It drives with supreme smoothness and the owner reports that it’s the quietest car that he’s ever driven.
Under the bonnet, it looks almost new and, indeed, the tool kit that is under the bonnet is still wrapped in cellophane. A discolouration of the list of fuses is the only downside to what is otherwise a supremely well preserved car.
Almost like new, this is surely one of the finest surviving examples of an X300 XJ6. You’d be mad to miss out.
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1997 Jaguar XJ6 3.2 Executive
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