Sympathetically restored in the late-1990s including rebuilt engine and gearbox; only 10k miles since; in the current ownership for 22 years; only 27,950 miles indicated; Bell stainless steel exhaust; lots to like about this oneThe Series Two version of Jaguar's brilliant XJ6 saloon was launched at the 1973 Frankfurt Motor Show alongside a new variant on the XJ theme, a two-door coupe.

A pet project of Sir William Lyons (and the last one he worked on before he retired from active design in 1972), the XJ-C used the short-wheelbase floorpan with longer front doors and a slightly different roofline, but was otherwise substantially the same as the four-door saloon.Lyons had insisted that the front and rear windows met in a pillarless construction, which was very elegant and looked fabulous when all the windows were down, but posed a serious headache to the development engineers who had to suppress the wind noise on these fast cars.

This delayed production until 1975 and the coupes were c...