Need help to identify

[Cas]

Please help to identify please

[N6 JMX]

It looks like a Series 2 XJ, produced between 1973 and 1979, but seriously modified by shortening the floorpan / chassis / roof and re-engineering the doors. Front bumper with the over riders is definitely of the Series 2 genre. Possibly started life as an XJC - the rear window, and rear quarterlight, and roof angles are more coupe than saloon in appearance, but cannot understand why anyone would go to this length to modify what is now a very rare and sought after model - if it were an XJC version originally that is. The door in view shows it was probably "engineered" by grafting the front end of a saloon's front door onto the whole of a saloon's rear door - to sit in the profile of the wheel arch. The front quarterlight in the saloon would have had a vertical trailing edge, whilst your photo shows an angled backwards trailing edge - akin to the XJ-S of the day. No Jaguar though ever had a single door that was profiled to the wheel arch on its trailing edge - rear door yes.

Originally the Series 2 XJ was available as a short or long wheelbase 4-door saloon and the pillarless coupe came along in limited numbers part way into the production cycle. Your photo shows a car that has been cut and shut, albeit it may well have been a professional job in it's day.

Something wrong with the registration though. The B plate is from 1983, which would be much later than the original donor car registration, PLUS, DVLA shows that B420 AGE was originally issued on a Silver coloured Vauxhall Nova, which this certainly isn't, in September 1983 - so maybe not as professional as first impressions.

Interesting if others can shed more light on the machine.

N6 JMX

[Cas]

Hi Thank you for shedding light on this.My thoughts also that this might have been modified but then i saw a pic of one in Australia and one in South Africa.Attached photo of the one in South Africa and a picture of the specs and Vin number(that might clear up the issue)