Classic Car Buyer

ALL NINE LIVES LEFT

Nearly 65 years is a heck of a long time for a car to accrue history – and Classic and Sports Car Centre’s UK-market Jaguar XK150S has done so with aplomb. Subject of a body-off restoration in 1980, it was sold to its second owner eight years later, who had the car put back together using the parts the vendor rebuilt but never reassembled.

Resprayed from Pearl Grey (as supplied) to white, the continued work was documented in a huge two-volume photographic album, alongside a service manual, a pile of old tax

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