2023-02-20 22:14:18 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 3/23

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-1963-jaguar-mkx/

Auction description:

Registration No: 7757 KV

Chassis No: 351917BW

MOT: January 2024

Jaguar's impressive early 1960s luxury saloon car

Supplied from new with a 3.8 litre straight six triple carb engine

Bought by the vendor in 2013 and restored over the last few years

Bodyshell blasted and repaired as necessary and refinished in Gold

Interior restored and seating has been re-trimmed in Red leather

Supplied with buff log book, Heritage Certificate and a current V5C

This beautifully presented MkX was originally manufactured as a left-hand drive car on the 13th December 1962, according to the Jaguar Heritage Certificate, and dispatched to the Swiss distributor Emil Frey on the 8th January 1963, apparantly to be used by a British diplomat stationed overseas. The original buff log book shows it being first registered in the UK to Jaguar Cars in April 1964, on its current number ‘7757 KV’, with the next change of ownership being two years later, on 20th April 1966, to dealers Imperial Motors in Cheltenham. The Heritage Certificate states that it was returned to the factory to be converted to right-hand drive, so presumably, this was carried out in the 2 years it appears to have been owned by Jaguar once the car came home from Switzerland. Bought by the vendor in 2013, it has since been restored with the bodywork media-blasted and repaired where necessary, and the engine removed and overhauled. Originally supplied in Grey, it has been refinished in Golden Sand with the interior re-trimmed in Red leather. The vendor reports it 'starts on the button and drives exceptionally well' and has just passed an MOT. The car comes supplied with an owner’s manual, a workshop manual, a maintenance chart, a period catalogue, a Jaguar Heritage Certificate, an original buff log book and a current V5C.