1996 XJR auto & 1997 Sovereign 3.2 LWB auto

ACK IN 1994, my father looked out of the window of his office and over the road was parked an X300-generation of Jaguar XJ6 in turquoise. His own father had always wanted a Jaguar, but buoyed by Yorkshire parsimony, the closest he got was the Rover 2300 company car he allowed himself in 1981 as managing director of an engineering company in Sheffield. The idea of meeting his father’s dream stuck with my old man – and having considered a used X300, he eventually bought a 2001 X-TYPE 2.5 SE in 2008. When it was replaced in 2016 (with another, newer contributor, Craig Cheetham.