2023-07-27 14:09:04 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 8/23

www.silverstoneauctions.com/1989-jaguar-xjs-cabrio-rec12812-1-silverston-0823

Auction description:

The Classic Sale at Silverstone Festival 2023

Lot Number 627

JAGUAR XJS CABRIO

Registration Number F200 AAB

MOT Expiry 28/07/2024

Chassis Number SAJJNADW3DB158444

Engine Number 8S065503SA

Transmission Automatic

Body Colour White

As confirmed by a letter from Jaguar Cars Ltd., this XJ-S was bought by our vendor’s grandfather, known as JJ, from T.W.R. Jaguar Ltd., of Coventry on 23th February 1989, and was first registered as JJ 184, which stayed on the car until 2005. Unusually specified for the time with Glacier White coachwork over navy blue leather and a matching dark blue mohair hood, the car has remained in the family from new. The accompanying service book records initial services by T.W.R, and following a period of being off-road due to JJ’s ill health, the car then passed to his son. It was locally serviced between 1999 to 2001 at the approved service centre Victoria Wood Oakham Ltd., Rutland, and displayed the mileage of 16,765 on 23rd February 2001.

In October 2020, our vendor’s father commissioned the renowned marque specialists, Classic Motor Cars of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, to commence a programme of works to bring the car back to its best. The accompanying invoices note the mileage at commencement of 19,716 miles. The meticulous attention to the car’s suspension, brakes, gearbox and sundry auxiliaries are methodically receipted and amount to over £20,000. Later transferred, in July 2021 to our vendor’s name, the car has been professionally stored and has covered just 98 miles since, as confirmed by the current odometer reading of 19,814 at the time of cataloguing. Presented to auction with the aforementioned Jaguar Cars Ltd. copy letter, historical and current receipts, previous MOT Certificates, tool kit, a selection of cassettes for use in the original player, period washer fluid, TWR tax disc holder and the embossed green book pack that includes the manuals and service book.