£1000-£2500
X300 XJ
With Ford funding, Jaguar was able to update the XJ40 into the car industry onlookers reckoned it could have been from the start and when the V8 engines were added, even the Germans started to worry. Today the ‘X300’ and ‘X308’ generation of XJ saloons make practical, easy-to-own modern classics.
The X300 itself came about as an alternative to an ambitious all-new car which Ford cancelled on cost grounds, the alternative being a more classically Jaguar nose and tail essentially grafted on to the XJ40’s centre section. With improved production quality and the AJ16 engines, the result was a winner and would remain in production for four years, until replaced by the V8-powered X308 generation.
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Check the sills along their full length and the rear wheelarches. Front
