2025-03-31 18:15:35 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 4/25

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-8---1971-jaguar-xj6-42-series-i/

Auction description:

Imperial War Museum | Duxford, Cambridgeshire, 9th Apr, 2025

Lot 8

1971 Jaguar XJ6 4.2 Series I

Low mileage example with the desirable manual gearbox with overdrive

Estimate £11,000 - £13,000

Registration No: REY 755K

Chassis No: 1L21472DM

MOT: March 2026

Just 29,000 recorded and believed genuine miles

Early features such as 1 piece rear bumper, Chrome gauge surrounds, and rear reflectors

Desirable manual gearbox example with overdrive

Offered with a large history file including the original book pack

Chassis ‘1L21472DM’ was manufactured in 1971, being first road registered on the 8th of October that year as ‘EOO 71’. Boasting early features such as the single-piece rear bumper, chrome gauge surrounds, and rear reflectors, the Jaguar also benefits from being a desirable manual gearbox example with overdrive. Supplied new to a Mr Norman Owen of Bangor, he covered some 19,500 miles during the first several years of the Jaguar's life, before laying up the car for approximately four years due to the soaring petrol prices of the late 1970s. Pressed back into service in the fuel price stability of the 1980s, the XJ6 reached some 20,000 miles before a valve dropped through a piston. Thereafter fitted with a new engine by the Automobile Palace of Anglesey (supplied by Jaguar at the cost of £800), shortly afterwards Mr Owens sold the Jaguar to its second keeper. Used sparingly by the second keeper covering a further 3,000 miles, the third owner purchased ‘1L21472DM’ in 1988, again only using the Jaguar for minimal mileage with some 2,000 miles covered in 18 months, with all three of the first owners residing in North Wales.

The previous owner then acquired ‘1L21472DM’ in 1990, again a resident of Anglesey, lavishing it with an extensive restoration. Entering the vendor's custodianship in 2020 and therefore leaving life in North Wales for the first time, ‘REY 755K’ is offered with only 29,000 recorded and believed genuine miles on the odometer, making a mere 9,000 miles on the ‘new’ engine fitted in the 1980s. Accompanied by a history file that contains the original Operations, Maintenance and Service manual, wiring diagram, lubrication chart and original sales literature, as well as a collection of previous MOTs and ownership history. In the vendor's ownership, the Jaguar has benefitted from £1,800 worth of improvement in 2020 with new front brake pads, front wheel bearings, ball joints, new tyres, and wheels balanced, as well as a new master cylinder and brake servo in 2021, and refreshed starting equipment. Offered with an MOT certificate until March 2026, this low mileage and five-owner example which has resided in North Wales for most of its life, boasts a barely ‘run-in’ engine on mileage and the desirable manual gearbox with overdrive!