1950 Jaguar MkV 3½-Litre Drophead Coupé

Registration No: NUV 38
Chassis No: 640080
MOT: Exempt

• 1 of just 108 right-hand drive examples
• Offered with a large history file and current V5c document
• Finished in Dark Blue complemented to a Tan interior

The MkV was unveiled on 30th September 1948 and launched at the London Motor Show a month later where it shared stand space with the XK120. Whilst the XK120 stole the show, the MkV vastly outsold it by roughly 3,000 cars per year. The MkV retained the 1946-48 driveline including the overhead-valve pushrod straight-six 2½ and 3½-litre engines. The chassis was new, however, with independent front suspension by double wishbones and torsion bars, a feature of many future offerings from Jaguar. It also had hydraulic brakes and an all-pressed steel body. Just 108 right-hand drive 3 ½-litre Drophead Coupes were produced, as most were built for the LHD export market.

Manufactured on the 19th September 1950, chassis 640080 was clothed in factory ‘three-position’ drop-head coachwork; It was sold in RHD configuration by the UK agents Lewis and Hodgkin on the 29th November that year. Purchased new by a high-ranking RAF officer by the name of Brian Arthur Scott, he had the car shipped to West Africa, before bringing it home with him in 1953. It sold to two owners in the South of England around 1962/63, before passing to a. Mr. Sidwell who kept it for a decade. He then sold it to a Mr. Edwards in 1991 for (a reputed) £27,500, equivalent to £64,000 in ‘today’s money’! Edwards was responsible for much documented expenditure between c1992 - 1995 and the 69,000 miles displayed on the odometer are believed genuine, supported by a selection of old MOT certificates. Advertised by AutoCherish Ltd of Essex in early 2011, our vendor’s father purchased the car from them for £46,000 on the 18th March 2011. The Jaguar has remained on display in his small private collection subsequently and a small degree of recommissioning will now be required - we are advised the car hasn’t been started or driven for “the last few years”.

Guided conservatively and offered with a comprehensive history file - this includes a continuation folding logbook, JDHT certificate / letter, sales literature, press articles, receipts, period service manual and lots of other technical literature.

For more information, please contact:
Adam Sykes
adam.sykes@handh.co.uk
07429 600332