Hidden gem

SOME CARS are destined to be in your garage,” Marcus Jones tells me. “Len is one of those.” Len is a 1960 Mk 2 3.8 with an unusual history, one that has seen it remain in remarkably original condition. And it’s a car that Marcus would never have known about had it not been for another recently exhumed Mk 2 that he had also found for sale in St Louis, a major American city in Missouri along the Mississippi River [see JW, February 2021, p70].

Marcus explains, “In September 2020, after I posted pictures on a Jaguar Facebook group of the car being loaded for transport to the docks, I was contacted by a gentleman called Mike. Mike told me that his father had a car like it that he needed to sell. Pictures were not immediately available because it was at his father’s house in Berwyn, Illinois; plus, it was not easily accessible due to the