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Pat Ketteringham  The Beast

 Pat Ketteringham kept us entertained with a very interesting and amusing talk on his experiences of building his Bentley bodied Jaguar Special over a number of years. He handed round some photos of the rebuild history and we were all very impressed. The tale was fascinating. We hope that Pat will bring it along to the club more this year. Many thanks Pat for taking the trouble to tell us about your “Beast”.

History in pictures of Pats Beast

 

 

Anthony Gregory XJ6 3.2 Executive (X300) 1996 P437 PJK

Tony Gregory, our Webmaster has also been Jaguar buying. He now owns a 3.2 Executive X300 of 1996 vintage. Tony tells me that the car was registered from new as 5 RFC in Rochester Kent. He takes up the story. “I am only the third owner. I originally saw it advertised on the Internet in Preston. I went over to view it with Samm and the children. However it wasn't there, as it was away being valeted. I was shown the service book that showed the car had an impressive full Jaguar service history. The only fault was a scratch on the bonnet. We therefore arranged to return and view the car on Monday. We arrived back at the garage this time with no children. The car was there and looked very clean and bright, I jumped in the car for a test drive and Samm said goodbye! She went off to pick up our youngest from nursery and left me stranded. Under the circumstances I had to use my initiative to get home so I bought the car! Luckily the test drive was fine and after a good look round for any faults or rust, which there were none I agreed a deal. However on returning home, I found the MOT certificate missing, I telephoned the garage and he could not find it there but suggested that I put it in for an MOT myself This I declined stating I did not buy cars without MOT's. I returned it to the garage to have a full MOT carried out. Although I have owned it a short time only so far I am very pleased with the car.

David Cuff Jaguar E-Type WNW 345H Series 2 Fixed Head Coupe. Signal Red

The car was built on 12 January 1970, registered on 9 March 1970 and supplied by The Automobile Centre, Leeds to J Boyd and Son Clothiers Limited, an old established firm of gent's outfitters in Leeds. The last owner was in contact with the original owner (long since retired) and apparently he used to purchase a new one every two years. The Webasto roof was factory fitted. The Heritage certificate shows all matching numbers on the car. There is a large amount of history with the car. I have all the Mot certificates since 1978. At this point the vehicle had covered 27412 miles. The subsequent certificates show that the recorded mileage of 62176 is correct. The car is not modified in any way. It is the original colour of signal red. The previous owner to me owned it for 18 years.

The car has been used on many occasions by Jaguar Cars for press, publicity and television, including featuring in all of the XK8 launch material. I have been fortunate to obtain a slide of this from JDHT and have had a large print made. WNW345H has also featured in the television  series "The Cars the Star" alongside Sir Jackie Stewart. In 2002 the previous owner had some sympathetic work done. This included a respray, retrim of the interior excluding the seats, and a replacement of all of the chrome work. Other than that the car is original. It is in "A+" condition and it gets used in the summer months. The engine maintains excellent oil pressure and is free from leaks. The car drives and handles exactly how a good "E" should.

Unusual use of an E-Type

I recently used my E-Type as a “wedding” car. An unusual use you might think but Isobel’s new daughter in law wanted to go to church in it so who was I to argue? The wedding was in Edinburgh Castle so I was given permission by Historic Scotland to take the car right into the castle and up to the top battlements to the chapel. How many people ever get the chance to say they were allowed to take their car into such a famous historical monument, apart from the Royal Family!! It was a proud moment. Of course I arranged for the official photographer to “officially” photograph the car in its parking place on the battlements for posterity. Watch the E-Type section of the magazine.
It was good to use the car and drive a few hundred miles in it. The journey up was mainly dry apart from a couple of showers and road spray. The last 40 miles or so after Abington is a lovely drive with open roads with not much traffic and no cameras. I thoroughly enjoyed “driving” it. We were all staying at the Holiday Inn and I managed to get WNW parked undercover. This kept Friday’s rain off it and meant I could give it a polish and fit a white ribbon ready for Saturday.

Saturday dawned dry and bright. Edinburgh traffic is notorious so we needed to set off in plenty of time to get Dawn to the castle for the 1:30 ceremony. I drove around the back of the city to Holyrood Palace but the family did not pop out to wave to us! I was then able to drive all the way up the Royal Mile to the Castle Esplanade. The Mile was very busy with tourists and every time we stopped we got waves and photographs taken. In fact one group of tourists kept me through a complete change of lights whilst they took their shots. Dawn was feeling a bit self-conscious but I told her not to worry – it was the car they were all looking at! We had to wait for a short time on the esplanade as the Groom’s party was not ready for us but finally we made our entrance. The castle was extremely busy with visitors. There was a huge Chinese delegation in town for some event or other so Dawn and the “E” were the main attraction. I could not get back to the car after the ceremony for tourists being photographed with it. The reception was in the Rowan Suite at Murrayfield – home of Scottish rugby. I did think about trying to get a photo of the car at the trackside. I was allowed near the hallowed turf myself not the car.
This photo could have been taken in 1970 – note the cobbled street in the castle! In fact it was taken 1 October 2005.

The journey home was another excellent drive in fine weather. Due to the lateness of the hour that Isobel retired from the celebrations, she slept most of the way back so I was able to open her up without getting “the look”. Suffice it to say we came back a lot quicker than we went up but the fuel consumption suffered! It was, as I believe the Lotus 7 owners club call it – an excellent “Blat!”
 

David Cuff Jaguar XJ-S Convertible Registration Number A3 OBE

First registered in October 1989, as G272 KKU this Diamond Blue convertible is a very low mileage original car. Indeed the service record shows that up to 31 August 1994 it had only done 15067 miles. It was fitted with a Jaguar-sport steering wheel and trip computer and radio cassette along with all the usual XJ-S refinements. It is complete with original instruction books and service record. An interesting point about the car is the centre console that has been specially cut out to take a Jaguar fitted car phone. The wiring is still there but when I got the car it had no aerial or phone, just a grommet on the rear wing that spoilt the line! It took me some time to find the correct chrome aerial from the period. I am still looking for a phone.

In January 1995 Sir Jimmy Savile purchased the car from a friend of his to celebrate the award of his OBE. He acquired the registration number on the car at this time. He chose the "A3" because he used to own a flat on the A3. Also he is known to his friends as "Old Blonde Ead!" Sir Jimmy used the car for some four years and drove approximately 1800 miles in it. He replaced it with a celebration model convertible, which i understand he still owns today. A friend of the current owner then acquired the vehicle. He drove some 8000 miles in the two years he owned it. When I acquired the car it had covered only 27650 miles. It has not been restored. It is original and in excellent A+ condition. It has just this year gone over the 30000 miles. The car is currently for sale.

Ian Pickering Celebration XJ-S

 

Ian Pickering is now the proud owner of a Celebration XJ-S Convertible. I have only seen it once in the dusk but it  looks an extremely nice well-kept example. Certainly Ian travelled a long way to find what he wanted. He has kept his XJ saloon as well so it's "two Jags Pickering" rather than Prescott! Seriously, it is good to see member's acquiring different cars and enjoying them.

 

Bert Johnson 1995 JAGUAR SOVEREIGN

I have owned this car for about two years and my excitement hasn’t worn off yet. This is my first Jaguar and not my last hopefully.

The car has a 4 litre straight six engine coupled to an automatic with the usual Jaguar (J) gearbox. The interior is of jaguar style with dove grey leather seats and walnut veneer on the dash and doors. It also features memory seats and door mirrors, air conditioning, climate control and cruise control.

In the two years of me owning this car I have covered over 20,000 miles. The car lives outside because it is too big to fit the garage, so I have spent quite a lot of time cleaning and polishing it. I have recently invested in a car cover keeping it clean ready for the weekend.

 The fun part is I traded a very sensible 1.2litre Fiat Punto in for this 4litre black monster. Talk about men and a mid life crisis. Before this most of my motoring history has been fairly mundane except for one or two. E.g. a Red MGB roadster and long gone Vauxhall Firenza. Now past needing room for baby seats and prams I can have something a bit less practical, and a bit more Fun.

 

 

David Williams – Jaguar XJS HE – G211 PWU 

 

David Williams – Jaguar Sovereign LWB X300, 4 litre – P629 XGT 

 

       

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