Highlights
- Classic red over cream colour combination
- Great spec - sweet-revving 3.4litre, power steering & auto box
- Older restoration with huge history file
- £19,000 spent to perfect mechanicals at Southern Classics in 2020
- Long MOT to November 2024 with no advisories
- Retrimmed and rechromed in 2019
The Appeal
Jaguar’s gorgeous Mk2 is a car of two characters. There is the sports car-bothering range of MOD models. Alternatively, equipped with an automatic gearbox and power steering, it is a relaxing, effortlessly quick four seater that is perfect for classic car weekend jaunts.
This well kept example is firmly in the latter camp. An older restoration that has been extensively fettled across the interior, chromework and mechanicals during 2019 and 2020 – including over £19,000 invested to perfect the mechanicals at specialist Southern Classics – it is in great shape. A long, advisory-free MOT to November 2024 confirms that fact, as do the photographs.
Well specified for classic motoring and in lovely order, this beautiful car looks ready to enjoy. And we are told that it drives very well indeed.
History and Paperwork
- First UK registered on 2nd May 1966
- VIN records place this car as a 1965 build, one of 1,811 3.4 RHDs assembled that year
- These also show that the car was factory fitted with power steering
- 12 owners from new with current owner since 22nd September 2020
- Previously painted blue, which was changed on 1st May 2006
- Extensive history file recording considerable amount of work over last 20 years
- Factory service manual in good condition
- Old MOTs to verify mileage
- Fitted with a long list of new parts in 2019 shown in photographs
- Engine rebuild in 2005 by model specialist
- Rechromed, wood renewed, new power steering rack and brakes overhauled October 2019
- £19,101 spent with Southern Classics in December 2020
- MOT to 22nd November 2024 with no advisories and few miles since the test
- Very good MOT history back to 2007 with few and only minor advisories
December 2020 work by Southern Classics included:
- Uprated starter motor
- Carburettors overhauled
- Gearbox rebuilt
- Propshaft rebuilt
- Steering rack rebuilt
- New shock absorbers
- Electronic ignition fitted
- Heater matrix replaced
The Condition
- Older restoration resprayed in classic red and in good order
- Bodywork presents very well with no visible corrosion to panelwork
- Typical Mk2 areas to note such as arches, sills and win tops are all well kept
- Paintwork in good order with only very minor and barely noticeable marks
- Standard exterior but with switch to smaller ‘Coombes’ style rear arches
- Sits on well kept wire wheels with quality Vredestein classic tyres all round
- Matching spare wheel with tyre removal kit in boot
- Chromework inside and out in very good order with bright finish and no visible deterioration
- Cream leather interior with matching door cards, which are piped in black
- Very well kept interior with extensive evidence of refurbishment across trim and fittings
- History records show many interior details replaced including door ‘fuzzy’ piped fittings
- Standard interior but with later wood-rimmed three spoke wheel and chrome embellishments to dials
- Period Motorola radio fitted
- Red carpets in good order through cabin and also fitted as an upgrade to boot area
- Headlining in good order appears to have been retrimmed but using factory specification
- Equipped with the clever factory ‘speed hold’ system that retains the gear on ascents and descents
The Mechanics
- 3,442cc Jaguar XK straight six engine developing around 200bhp
- 4spd factory fitted automatic gearbox with ‘speed hold’ system
- Rebuilt in 2005 with more recent attention to carburettors, starter and ignition
- Extensive list of mechanical work undertaken in late 2020 by specialist Southern Classics and detailed above
- The vendor reports that the car drives extremely well
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