Aston Martin Tickford XJ-SC

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Hi,
Otsikon mukainen auto olisi kaupan ja lisätietoja saa myyjältä:

Aarhennessy@gmail.com

I have a very rare Jaguar - one of only 187 built by Aston-Martin-Tickford (AMT) from 1982-1984. Its currently for sale on nettiauto if you want to see pictures.
According to the XJ-SC register non were imported new to Finland - in fact the AMT cars were built for the home market and only a few were made in left hand drive. Only around 50 cars are know to survive worldwide.
Some mystery surrounds the development of these cars. AMT was set up by Aston-Martin to do small production runs of specialist cars - for example the RS 200 and Tickford Capri. They also developed the XJ-SC - although Jaguar only credit them a small role. I have unpublished development photos from the Tickford owners club which show almost all the XJ-SC development was done by AMT. Jaguars archives have no development photos of the project. However, the man incharge of development at AMT had a disagreement with Jaguar - AMT production of cars was very slow and Jaguar halted AMT involvement - they took upto 6 months to complete a car! No one at Jaguar or AMT will discuss details of the XJ-SC development....however the fact that all the photos are held by AMT (now Tickford owners club) and not by Jaguar tends to suggest Jaguar had very little involvement. However the XJ-SC was used by Jaguar to develope the full convertible launched in 1988 (under Ford). So.... The XJ-SC is the last of William Lyons and Malcom Sayers great masterpieces, built during Sir John Egans chairmanship of an indipendent Jaguar - so it is the last True Jaguar sports car!
As for my car, its completely original, with only very minor problems, and in excerlent condition. I have ALL history from new - I knew the first owner. I have all its paperwork from the uk and original jaguar maindealer workshop manual, parts cataloge original reviews etc etc - two folders of information and history on this car.
Its been mine for 8 years which is longer than I've owned any car - but now I would like a change so its offered for sale.
One of your members may be interested - as I believe it is the only one of its kind in Finland. Being the 3.6 manual its faster and out performs the V12 and has exerlent fuel ecconomy -I've owned two V12s and this car is not a fast lazy cruiser its a true sports car. Aston Martin also modified the chassis of these early cars and it shares the same set up as the DB7 (which is based on this car). The engine is als tuned for performance and does not have the refinement you normally expect with Jaguars. The Jaguar made cars - even 3.6 manuals are more refined but lack the performance of the AMT cars.
If your interested in more information or if any of your members would like to view the car let me know. As I said these cars are rare - only a few well informed Jaguar enthusiasts know of there existance. Few have seen one, it took me 4 years to find this one in the uk.
I do speak a little Finnish but not good enough to give the above information!
Regards
Al