Registration No: B8 NHB
Chassis No: SAJJNAEC3CA157474
MOT: March 2024

• Current owner since 1998
• Continuously improved to as-close-to-new condition since purchase
• Several concours wins since 2013
• Awarded Jaguar Drivers' Club 'Champion of Champions' in 2018
• Comprehensive History File detailing expenditure of over £40,000
• Always kept stored in a temperature controlled garage and fastidiously maintained

Introduced in October 1983, the Jaguar XJ-S 3.6 was intended to be a sharper, more sporting foil to the range's established, soporific 5.3-litre V12 model. To emphasise the difference, it was fitted with a five-speed manual Getrag gearbox as standard. With some 225bhp and 240lbft of torque on tap courtesy of its 3590cc DOHC 24 valve straight-six, the claimed 140mph top speed and 0-60mph time of 7.4 seconds were a near match for the V12. Yet when such performance was not called upon, it could reputedly return thirty miles per gallon, a feat beyond the V12's capabilities. A revised, more positive feel to the power steering improved the handling still further.

Delivered new on 7th February 1989, this XJ-S was ordered in Glacier White with an Isis Blue leather interior and fitted with an automatic transmission. After passing through the hands of only a few owners, ‘B8 NHB’ was acquired by the current vendor in February 1998 with only 33,805 miles on the odometer. Having originally bought it as a daily driver, the excellent condition of the car didn’t go unnoticed to fellow Jaguar Drivers' Club members and the vendor was soon asked to enter the car for the club concours. Having been bitten by the bug, the vendor then set out to make the car as close to perfect as possible, with multiple concours wins as a result. The crowning glory came in 2018 when the chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover presented the Jaguar Drivers’ Club ‘Champion of Champions’ to our vendor. Since then the Jaguar, although sparingly used, has still been meticulously maintained and stored in a temperature controlled garage to preserve it in the near perfect condition it is in today. Now showing only 67,832 miles on the odometer, the car is offered with a large history file documenting over £40,000 spent on maintenance and improvements, mainly by marque specialists David Lindsay Classics, a Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust Certificate, old MOTs, full toolkit, jack and a current V5 document. With this many accolades bestowed upon it, this could be the best XJ-S extant.

For more information, please contact:
Julian Pinkster
julian.pinkster@handh.co.uk
07889 223 904