🔥For Sale🔥

1980 Daimler Sovereign Vanden Plas

Wesley Turkington Lurgan supplied with a mere 49k miles on the clock.

By 1979, after ten successful years in the market, the time had come for a new generation of the Jaguar XJ model range. Although an all-new saloon car model was under development behind the scenes under the project number XJ40, this was still a number of years away from production. To fill the gap, Jaguar for the first time went to an outside design house, the Italian firm of Pininfarina, and asked for an update of the classic XJ shape.

Pininfarina largely kept the lower part of the body although there was a handsome new grille, while bumpers and rear lights were tidied up. Changes above the waist were more radical, with a new roof and glasshouse, incorporating deeper side windows made from curved glass. The new model, launched in March 1979 as the Series 3, won instant acclaim as a great improvement over the Series 2 model

This is an immaculate example presented in rare Mineral Blue metallic with Biscuit leather, which has had a no expense spared restoration carried out a number of years ago.

The body work presents beautifully, every panel is straight with perfect shut lines, shining chrome work and deep lustrous glossy paintwork. The Kent alloys present well with matching tyres all round.

Inside, the Biscuit leather interior is in excellent condition with minimal age related wear. The carpets and trim are immaculate with all buttons, switches, levers and knobs working precisely as they should.

The fuel injected 4.2 Inline straight 6 engine fires up and purrs beautifully. Coupled to jaguars 3 speed automatic gearbox with 205bhp it sits very comfortably on the road.

An absolutely sensational car in rare spec with excellent history.

£14,750