Description
Reluctantly for sale due to loss of indoor storage.
1994 Jaguar XJR Supercharged 4. 0 with factory 5 speed manual box.
One of only 103 RHD factory manual XJRs ever made, estimates of surviving cars vary from about 30 to 50.
MOT valid until 31 July 2025.
The car has had 11 previous owners but only 2 since 2009.
It is in beautiful condition having been extensively restored between 2016 and 2020. There is a JDHT Certificate with the car showing a build date of July 1994, well before the official launch of the car, so this is an early car and one of only two '94 manuals known to be taxed and mot'd, with another 3 untaxed vehicles known to the DVLA.
It was originally registered to Jaguar Cars (Promotions Ltd) on 13 Sept 1994. What they used it for is not recorded but it was sold on to it's first private owner a year later.
Other notable owners include Peter Crespin, author of a number of Essential Buyers Guides to various Jaguar Daimler models including XJ40, X300, XJS and E-types., and later in it's life the car was bought by Rob Jenner, a well known figure in the JEC who has owned multiple manual XJRs and who reunited the car with it's original registration number.
I bought the car from Rob in Jan 2016.
In my ownership the car has been extensively refurbished mechanically and bodily, using almost exclusively new old stock genuine Jaguar original parts and it now looks and drives like a new car.
Front and rear suspension sub-assemblies were completely dismantled, parts shot blasted and all nuts, bolts, bushes, bearings, ball joints, shocks, discs, pads, hoses, seal, pretty much every single wearing part was renewed using new original Jaguar parts or OEM parts as supplied to Jaguar by other manufacturers in 1994, such as the original equipment Bilstein dampers front and rear.
A lot of effort was made to find original components, for example genuine Jaguar dur-loc suspension bolts, no longer available from Jaguar were tracked down in the USA.
This attention to detail ensures that the finished car rides and handles as Jaguar intended when the car was new.
The car was resprayed to a high standard in it's original Flamenco Red in 2020, dry stored with little use since, and still looks fantastic.
Wheels are the original XJR 17" alloys with the optional diamond-cut finish and were refinished in 2020.
The engine was replaced in 2019 with an excellent used example as the original was showing signs of wear, but the original was retained and is included in the sale if the new owner wishes to take it.
The original cream interior was replaced with a much better used interior in charcoal (black) leather with heated seats and with a new grey headlining in the original type material with recovered roof console panel and sunvisors.
The new interior retains the rare Harman Kardon door, A-pillar and parcel shelf speakers for the Harmon Kardon stereo system, an optional extra fitted when the car was new.
The notorious LED clock has been professionally refurbished and now works perfectly.
The exhaust is a high quality stainless aftermarket item with no apparent makers name on it, but is beautifully made and sounds perhaps a fraction louder than a standard system, but still very understated.
I have hundreds of pictures taken during the refurbishment showing the extent of the work done.
There are a couple of small jobs that have not been completed and will be left for the new owner to finish:
The A/ C is not currently working. A new AC condenser radiator was fitted during the engine swap and I have acquired a new drier unit and a new old stock AC hose but these need to be fitted and the system refilled. The compressor condition is unknown, and although I have a spare I would recommend sourcing a new unit if possible. I have some OEM hose seals.
Heated seats have also not been connected or tested. The seat motors themselves work, it is just the heating elements that need to be done. The switchgear is in place.
Since the bare-metal respray required the front and rear windows to be removed, so I took the opportunity to fit a heated front screen. The screen, wiring and switchgear have been installed but the relays need to be fitted and the system tested. This should be a relatively simple job.
The under bonnet area was not resprayed when the rest of the car was, so some of the components could do with a rub down and repaint to bring this area up to the same standard as the rest of the car.
These cars are becoming quite collectable now, but restoration is expensive and remains economically unviable so scruffy ones are still being scrapped or broken for spares.
Excellent manual cars are now few and far between, and rarely come up for sale.
This one looks fantastic, and drives beautifully.
