Just been intro'd to this site by Dave Silcock.
I've been running the same Mk2 Jaguar in classic racing since 1979.
Prepared by Dave since day one, driven to every event, driven home from most.
She's so familiar, getting in the driver's seat is a bit like slippng on an old and well worn shoe...with about as many heel and toe replacements!
Car originally owned by Sir Harry Wigley, founder of Mt Cook Group, who used her to tour his branches around the Sth Is, adding up some 100,000 mls in the first 3 yrs of ownership. Now travelled 160k miles.
A friend recalls travelling from ChCh to Timaru in the late '60's, cruising at 90 odd mph, whereupon the red Jag came from nowhere, Lady Wigley at the wheel, and slip-streamed past him with ease as the exhaust note confirmed she'd just selected overdrive at 100mph plus!
Some of the best racing I had in the early '80's was that roadrace back to ChCh from a day's track racing at Levels. We'd all be in jail these days...