Description
We present this beautiful 1954 Jaguar XK140S 3. 4 litre OTS/ Roadster in gleaming red with black leather interior and black hood with only 9, 105 recorded miles. Fitted with Motolita steering wheel, 2” carburettors, C-Type cylinder head, dual exhaust, chrome wire wheels, retro-fitted disc front brakes and callipers and the original drum rear brakes, we’ve unearthed the history of this car from when it left the factory, originally in LHD format! The chassis was completed on 22 December 1954 and the car shipped from Liverpool on 10 January 1955 to Hoffman, New York, USA. The factory records do not show the name of the first owner.
In 2001 it was owned by John Burton of Norfolk in the UK, who may well have imported it from the USA - as he had done with other cars. In April 2004 the car was registered in the UK in the name of Victor David Weeks of Anlaby, Hull, Yorkshire. In August 2005 it was offered for sale by Sherwood Restorations Limited of Southwell, Nottingham and the next owner was David Donegan of Blyth in Nottinghamshire, possibly in July 2005 (documentation unclear). In 2008 between about March and November it was again advertised for sale by Sherwood Restorations. The car had been converted to RHD, the C Type head, 2 inch carburettors (not sand-cast), disc brakes, chrome wire wheels, dual exhaust, Koni shock absorbers and Motolita steering wheel fitted. It was said that it had been the subject of a “Ground up restoration to the ‘ultimate’ standard”.
In 2008/ 9 it was sold to John K. Breslan of Sunny Cove, False Bay just south of Cape Town, South Africa. It passed an MOT test in the UK in June 2009, when a recorded mileage of 06, 552 was noted. That same month Breslan obtained an Import Permit to bring the car into South Africa. The car was noted as being a “vintage vehicle” and a condition imposed was that “The vehicle may not be offered, lend [sic], hired, leased, pledged, given away, exchanged, sold or otherwise be [sic] disposed of in SA for a period of two years from the date of clearance for home consumption into the Republic.” It was shipped on the MSC Flaminia from Felixstowe on 16 July 2009.
In 2014 it was again offered for sale, this time from the workshop of Cobra and muscle car builder/ restorer The Snake Pit in Randburg, Gauteng in NW Johannesburg. It then passed to classic car dealer Hamptons Exclusive Cars in Johannesburg (later Green Auto Sport) who sold it in November 2016 to the current owner, apparently on behalf of John Deslan’s deceased estate.
Jeff’s Jags has looked after the car for almost ten years now, carrying out basic servicing and repairs and during this time we fitted a high-torque starter, new clutch and Spax shocks, but in those ten years she has covered barely a few hundred miles. Being in South Africa on the High Veld the car is corrosion free and we can ship her anywhere in the world. Jeff’s Jags Johannesburg is a Jaguar-only specialist engaged in the servicing, repair, restoration and sale of Jaguars from the inception of the marque pre-War right up to today.
