Simister’s smart buys

James Walshe on how to buy the best example of Jag’s XJ for the Nineties

FANCY A PUNT? ‘Online auctions – just too easy!’ ...

Danny buys a holiday wagon, at a price he could afford

ASKING £24,995 PRICE ENGINE 1998cc/4-cyl/OHC POWER 154bhp@6000rpm ...

SWVA, POOLE. 31 JULY

Here’s a motor we all should have bought: this 1976 Ford Escort RS 1800, priced at a bit over £3000 when new, has just sold at a Historics auction in Berkshire for £279,000. Apparently this was Ford’s