Classic Jaguar

I’d like to open with a thank you to you: our readers. Classic Jaguar is now selling better than ever thanks to your dedication to the marque we all love and your desire to see these cars in print. Please keep spreading the word and showing your frie

An Independent Publication Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Maidstone, Kent, ME18 6AL +44 (0)1959 541444 Editor Sam Skelton . sam.skelton@kelsey.co.uk Art Editor Mark Baker . mark_baker04@yahoo.co.uk Neil Campbe

It’s fair to say that the Jaguar XJ6 and XJ12 Series I were a resounding success. Jaguar’s plan to rationalise a range of four different model families and nine different models with two different engine families into a single model range meant busin

"In many ways, the Majestic Major family was the last hurrah for Daimler; an old money car in a new money world.” Today, Andrew Steers is such a devotee of the marque’s last independentlydesigned product that he owns two of the DR450 limousine versio

There have been several important cars in Jaguar’s long history. The XK120, E-type and XJ6 Series I are just three that played their own pivotal roles in the company’s past. Yet there’s another that despite not being as famous as its illustrious fore

Established Jaguar specialist, Knowles Wilkins Engineering, has been appointed by a leading supplier of electric motors and batteries for the automotive industry, Electrogenic, as its official installer for classic Jaguar conversions. A kit for the E

Jaguar Land Rover Classic has approached a number of high profile Jaguar and Daimler clubs in order to discuss parts availability for classic models and the potential for remanufactured parts. Representatives from the Jaguar Drivers Club, Jaguar Enth

The increased traffic online for classic car parts has led to a greater number of scam advertisements for parts or services. Our sister title Classic Car Buyer has over the years exposed numerous scam types from fraudulent eBay listings to Facebook M

The Best of British Show, originally planned for Sunday 3rd September is being postponed to 2024. The event will now take place on Saturday 27th April at Turvey House, Bedfordshire. While there were great features already lined up for this year’s ina

Following the successful XK120 Belgian motorway speed trial in the spring of 1949 it was Frank Raymond Wilton (FRW or “Lofty”) England who organised the XK120 test sessions at Silverstone that August. They were an insurance policy to prove to William

SAM SKELTON I’ve just read a line in a Daily Telegraph feature which has saddened me to the core as a car enthusiast. And it’s not about the ULEZ, or road pricing, or anything of that kind. It’s about something more visceral, something more key to t

We’ve had about our busiest year ever for events in 2023, and things are showing no signs of letting up anytime soon. As well as the usual club events we were honoured to be invited (last minute) to demonstrate our XJR-9 at the 2023 Le Mans 24hr Race

In recent weeks, my Sovereign could almost have been forgiven for feeling neglected. After all, with a shiny new Daimler on the scene that needed plenty of work to get it up to a decent standard, my attention has hardly been focused on the grey Jag p

WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY: PETER SIMPSON Unique is a much-abused word. It describes an entity that is singularly like no other… something just like the Daimler Corsica. Yes, it is based on a Jaguar X300 and there may well be others that have seen the enth

You would think that the holiday period was one of relaxation and rest, but not for the Jaguar Drivers’ Club and its army of volunteers. August started with the Club’s big National Weekend at Walton Hall in Warwickshire, followed by a new event on th

The piercing sun was heating up the New Forest almost immediately after dawn as the JEC organising team and marshals started receiving the first of the day’s exhibitors at our Simply Jaguar event in partnership with the National Motor Museum, Beaulie

Although there’s no such thing as a cheap Jaguar E-type, it’s certainly the case that the Series 3 offers the best value of them all. With an early flatfloor Series 1 setting you back anything up to a cool quarter of a million pounds in exceptional c

One of the earliest evolutions of electronic ignition was devised by Lucas with its Oscillating Pick-Up System, or OPUS for short. In 1971, for example, the OPUS AB3 ignition system, which featured an ignition amplifier, was fitted to the Jaguar V12,

Some cars become special as they age. And some were special the day they left the factory. The Daimler Century on these pages belongs to the second group – with only 100 4.0 and 100 6.0 models made, the Century might well be an X300 under all the tri

The Jaguar Mk2 is overrated. There, we’ve said it. But in truth, it’s not quite what we mean – the fact remains that it was an excellent car, offering space and pace that was almost unrivalled for the money – and a car that has earned itself a litany