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Good old Yards and Yarns has languished on page 3 for far too long.

On page 5 of Y & Y post 92, I regailed a storey about the 8 mile chase. It was the storey of a pursuit, late one evening between a MK3 Ford Zephyr and an XK120C.......the one in the picture. The person driving the Ford was a Cop, and the driver of the XK was me.....you can read all about it if you want.

The XK had quite a history. It is the only NZ new drophead still in existence, and now resides in Australia. Chassis No
667206 was despatched to ChCh Jaguar agent, Archibalds on 2 march 1954, and among other illustrious owners David Young, racing driver from Timaru was one of them. He traded the car on a C type race car, and it eventually ending up at Des Wilds Motor Emporiam where I purchased it in 1964 for the grand sum of 625 pounds.

Is one of those cars which we have all had and said 'I shouldnt have sold it', but all sorts of things happen in our lives that such promises can never be kept. I used it as an everyday car on the farm, did my courting in it, and eventually sold it because quite frankly it was not the most suitable car for a young bride/mother to go to the shops in.

I had a great deal of difficulty selling it in 1967 because in every ones eyes, it was just a worn out old and troublesome British sports car. I eventually got 500 pounds for it, and the turkey that bought it robbed all the good bits of it and sold it on. A later owner managed to trace most of the performance equipment and reunite it with the car.

Incidentally I bought a 1966 Morris 1100 with the proceeds!!!!!!!