That’ll be the XJ
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I noticed a feature on your website about the 50th anniversary of the Jaguar XJ series, which prompted me to venture into our attic. I was seven years old when my
dad came home from work with this, the 1968 brochure inviting him to ‘enter the private world of the Jaguar XJ6’. I don’t know what he thought the life expectancy of a car brochure would be, left in the hands of his seven-year-old son but, 50 years on it’s still in unmarked condition, complete with the specification sheet in a pocket in the rear cover. This was in the days when such luxury items as a radio and seatbelts were optional extras, even in a car as exalted as a Jaguar, and copywriters could get away with a caption reading: ‘The lockable glovebox, which comes with its own vanity mirror, is the domain of the driver’s wife’.
Sadly, owning the brochure was as close as we ever got to owning an XJ6. Chris Poole