Needs work and isn’t cheap, but as Alan Anderson asks, just how often do very early manual XJ-S V12s come up for sale?

ASKING £10,995 PRICE ENGINE 4196cc/V8/DOHC POWER 300bhp@6000rpm TORQUE ...

Long stored E-type A two-owner-from-new 1964 Jaguar E-type ...

ASKING £9995 PRICE ENGINE 1486cc/flat-4/OHV POWER 52bhp@4100rpm TORQUE ...

Sam Dawson has found a nicely-preserved XJ which blends originality with a fastidious maintenance schedule

Few cars have run counter to their maker’s reputation as starkly as the Jowett Jupiter, a model that transformed the image of the Yorkshire minnow when it was launched in 1950. High-tech, engineered c