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GAME-CHANGER

My late best friend and I once went to a world-famous hatter to purchase a Panama hat each. We then wafted back home along the Dorset coast, stopping at a hostelry for refreshment on the way. It was a wonderful, leisurely, middle-aged jaunt, and his XJ6 was the perfect conveyance for the mission.

Stuart had an eclectic taste in cars, which he bought with his heart rather than his head. He was a dreamer, whose whims and fancies were expressed by the vehicles in which he disported himself. One of the high points of his car-owning career was the 1995 Jaguar XJ6 which he acquired from a marque enthusiast in

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