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his lovely image was only issued by Jaguar recently, but shows a 4.2 XJS Automatic from 1968, the year the model was introduced. I am not generally a big fan of brown cars, but it really seems to suit this one – maybe it is the super lighting in the image or the clean an uncluttered white background, or perhaps it is just that a car as beautiful as the XJ6 looks great in any colour. My biggest memory of the model was travelling five-up from Norwich to the British Motor Show at Birmingham's NEC in 1980 or 1982. The exhaust fell off on the way so we had to stop and get a new one fitted, and even when it was split five ways the

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