Jaguar Tales

The XJ-S had survived its greatest rally test so far:  1000 miles over one long weekend, with 300 competitive rallying miles including 14 regularities and 17 tests.   The HERO film above gives you a flavour of what was involved (we're interviewed at about 10:28). Nevertheless, by the time we got home, not all was well.   Mike Ferrari at our ever-helpful local Jaguar specialist, Epping Classic Cars, agreed to put the car up on one of their lifts so I could inspect the damage.  Our family has been customers for over 20 years and we are happy to unashamedly give them a mention!  As long standing Jaguar and Land Rover specialists, Mike & Ian cast their expert eyes over the car, giving me a tip here and there, as I carried out my own inspection.  There was good and bad news: The bad news was that the one-year-old rear radius arm bushes were already very much past their best, in fact, one of the metal inserts had torn itself out of the rubber bush, ...