{"id":180,"date":"2019-04-07T09:09:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T09:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/?p=180"},"modified":"2024-09-12T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:25:16","slug":"classified-of-the-day-1969-jaguar-mk2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/classified-of-the-day-1969-jaguar-mk2\/","title":{"rendered":"Classified of the Day \u2013 1969 Jaguar Mk2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you itching to live out your fantasies of being the bad guy from The Sweeney? If you do, this classic Jaguar is very much the car for you. Though before we go on, we should qualify this by saying this is going to be a project, but by the looks of it, one very much worth doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mk1 Jaguar is now a largely forgotten old thing. It wasn\u2019t a bad car, per se, it was just a case of it being overshadowed by the brilliance of the Mk2. What Jaguar did was take the Mk1 \u2013 an already good car \u2013 and improve on it. At the time, it didn\u2019t seem possible \u2013 the Mk1 was pretty much perfect as far as most were concerned. But jaguar went ahead anyway, and stunned the naysayers with its follow-up act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/car\/C942903\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-181 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/9552164.jpg\" alt=\"Jaguar, Jaguar Mk2, Manual Jaguar, Jaguar Mk2 barn find\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The suspension was reworked, raising the roll centre of the car. This combined with the wider rear track made for class-topping handling. Disc brakes were fitted all round. As standard. In 1959 the windows were made larger by 18% in total, making the cabin lighter and visibility better, and the body was restyled to be smooth and flowing. It had it all, and the adverts proudly let the world know. Grace\u2026 Space\u2026 Pace\u2026 read the advert penned by Sir William Lyons. And it wasn\u2019t wrong. The Jaguar had all three in spades. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/9552172.jpg\" alt=\"Jaguar, Jaguar Mk2, Manual Jaguar, Jaguar Mk2 interior\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for the pace, that came from a range of inline-six engines. The car you\u2019re looking at here has the \u2018baby\u2019 engine, with a capacity of 2,483cc. But don\u2019t go thinking baby is slow. It has, or had when it was new, 120bhp. And while most Mk2 Jaguars were fitted with an automatic transmission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/car\/C942903\">this one<\/a> has a manual. Perfect for outrunning the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a project though. The advert is light on details, but it seems that this is a survivor car rather than an older restoration. It\u2019s certainly honest though, and that\u2019s a good thing when buying a classic. You could go for a full restoration. If it were our money, however, we\u2019d get it road legal again and run it with all that hard-earned patina in place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you itching to live out your fantasies of being the bad guy from The Sweeney? If you do, this classic Jaguar is very much the car for you. 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