OPINION
Back in the dim and distant past, and long before I edited this title, Kelsey Publishing bought a Jaguar Sovereign 4.2 as a project car for our sister title, . It wasn’t a bad example, though it needed a fair amount of TLC and among other things, we fitted a fully rebuilt 4.2 to it after the one in the car, Simon Goldsworthy dropped it with the magazine’s friendly bodywork chap, Alan Denne, to collect another project, before realising he had a problem. The Jaguar would need to be stored outside and the central locking system wasn’t working properly. Mindful of the fact that Alan’s workshop was in the middle of nowhere, he needed a better solution. And he rang me. At the time I was Features Editor on our weekly sister title, , and I’d liberated the car ark of its rather nice Triumph 2500TC estate. Would I, Simon asked, go and leave the Triumph instead, so I could keep the Jag at home? I was on the road before he finished asking – and soon wafting back in a Series III Sovereign. And every time I was asked to give it back, I conveniently managed to forget where the keys were, or pretended to be out.
