Jaguars have come into and gone from the Buckley fleet over the past 15 or 20 years, but I have not always reported on them, perhaps because they never felt as if they were going to be firm fixtures.

ASKING £11,995 PRICE ENGINE 2996cc/V6/DOHC POWER 231bhp@6000rpm TORQUE ...

ASKING £19,995 PRICE ENGINE 1798cc/4-cyl/OHV POWER 95bhp@5400rpm TORQUE ...

Year of manufacture 1937 Recorded mileage 23,737 Asking price £250,000 Vendor Graeme Hunt, Battersea, London; 020 7937 8487; graemehunt.com WHEN IT WAS NEW Price £1100 (chassis, 1935) Max power 114bhp

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I OFTEN FIND MYSELF SCOURING THE deep recesses of car-based internet forums for a glimpse of the golden era of car development, a time when test mules were truly mysterious things and we weren’t drip-