Jaguar E-Type Series I

Well, Christmas is just one day away and as per my word that I would do a few write-ups on some rare and interesting automobiles this month, here is another. I started off this month with an ultra-rare 1926 Rolls-Royce Twenty Tourer and so here is another rare beauty and back to the topic of my beloved Jaguars of course, the Jaguar E-Type. It’s actually been overdue for some time for me to write an article on this car but my initial plan was to write to write about the E-Type Series 1, 2 and 3 in one article but unfortunately I haven’t got any good shots of the Series 2 and the Series 3 yet hence, I’ve decided to just split the articles into the three different ones.

Jaguar XJS

Well, it's my 50th post today and I'll be talking about my favourite make of all time, Jaguar. Jaguar always came out with great coupes right from the XK120s, the E-type, the XJS and up to the latest XKs. Today we will concentrate on the Jaguar XJS. The Jaguar XJS was a two-door car that Jaguar came up with in the 70s. It was to be what they call a luxury grand tourer and production ran for more than 20 years from 1975-1996 which is unusually long. During the production period more than 100,000 units were built which consisted of various body designs such as coupes, convertibles (above) and the rare targa-top. It was to be the successor to the ever-famous Jaguar E-type or known as XKE in the US.

The targa-top model

The coupe

The earlier XJS models had two engine variants which were the 3.6 litre inline 6 and the 5.3 litre V12. The 3.6 litre engines in these models were the AJ6 design and not the older XK design. The AJ6 was also later to be the heart of the Jaguar XJ40 models which I previously had a write-up on.

The XJS had appeared in the television series ‘Return of the Saint’ which was the sequel of ‘The Saint’ which featured the Volvo P1800. Finding an XJS in Malaysia is quite rare as too all other classic Jaguar models and prices are not too high as well. A good well kept one would cost at least RM70,000 – RM80,000. I too have one for sale. Go check out my ‘Cars for sale’ page, this is a V12 convertible. That’s all from me for today, I leave you with a video below of a rare Jaguar XJS 3.6 manual.

Private Treaty Sales 2014 #2

About 2 months back, I did a write up on the 1^st Private Treaty Sales organised by Historic Motoring Ventures. Now, the 2^nd Private Treaty Sales for the year was held about two weeks back and of course my friend Jon and I decided to pay a visit to Bangsar Shopping Centre on what was a pleasant Sunday. When we reached there, we realised an orange Volkswagen Beetle parked at the entrance to the shopping centre. And so we made our way inside and there she stood, the Mercedes-Benz 500K (pic above). It was quite a surprise as this car was not included in the line-up initially but of course it got us all excited as the last I saw this car was at least 4 years back.

With a different line-up of cars this time compared to the earlier one in March, the cars on sale this time were no less eye-catchers compared to the earlier sale. Notable cars this time other than the Mercedes-Benz 500K were a very rare 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280SE Cabriolet, a 1980 Morgan Plus 8, another Mercedes-Benz 190SL roadster (a different car compared to the earlier sale), a rare 1956 Ford Thunderbird which happens to belong to a friend of mine and a 1982 Ferrari 308 of which I’ve done a write up on a similar car earlier in the year. The only Jaguar this time was a Jaguar XJS V12 Cabriolet of which I too have a similar model for sale (check out the ‘Cars for sale’ section) and the only Japanese car was a 80s Toyota Celica.

But this time around my favourite car had to be the Mercedes-Benz 500K with it’s sheer style and elegance. Some of the prices on the cars seemed reasonable with regards to its condition but some I thought were just a little too expensive. We will catch up on the Mercedes-Benz 500K soon as there’s already an article in the pipeline. All in all, it was a very excitement filled day especially with the presence of the Mercedes-Benz 500K... Well, here I’ll leave you with shots of some of the interesting cars taken by my ‘official’ photographer, Jon...

Updated Section - Cars for sale

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