REMEMBER when dropping small-block Chevs into Jags was very much the done thing? It gave them some semblance of reliability and a bit of extra shove, and while such a car is a street machine of sorts, we’ve never before encountered a Jag like Hamish Davidson’s truly jaw-dropping 1976 XJC.
An XJC is not just a garden-variety Jag. It’s effectively a sportier two-door version of the XJ sedan, manufactured in relatively small numbers across four years in the mid-70s.
“My dad had a four-door Jag back in the 80s, and I remember seeing an XJC in a Jag book and thought it was the sleekest shape I’d ever seen,” Hamish says. “I bought this XJC in 2004, flying down to Melbourne for a road trip with my then four-year-old son Hadley. I drove it all the way home to Wollongong, then went to get it
