1955 Jaguar XK140 Drophead Coupe – New price
Price reduction. A totally correct and exceptionally original example of a rare UK market, RHD drophead, supplied new in 1955 by The Woodcote Motor Co, Epsom. Sound condition, cosmetically mature and appealing, retaining original, mellowed tan leather interior, and of nicely understated specification with disc wheels and spats. The paint shows its age in a quite charming way, the chrome work is very good to excellent, and the overall appearance is seductively appealing. One owner from 1974 to 2015, and one since. Just 6,000 odd miles covered during that fifty years! Recent work has included a new stainless exhaust, new clutch, complete re-wire and a good deal more besides. Comes with a Jaguar heritage certificate confirming original specification and colour scheme, and a file of invoices from recent years showing parts expenditure, etc. Driving very nicely, sounding great, and fun to whizz around in! Very few survive in such undisturbed condition! Part exchanges happily considered.
Chassis No. 807260.
Reg No. YPC 555.
Price £85,000 – now £75,000.
Snippets:
The Name is Bond – G. Bond
It is very difficult to work out who the first owner of YPC 555 was as we have two gentlemen who fit the bill – father & son. perhaps someone out there can help us to work out which one it is.
Lt. Gerald Aubrey Bond (1898/1967) served as sharpshooter during WWI with the London Regiment and in 1917 he was awarded the Military Cross (group of 3) for his heroic deeds at Passchendaele. The citation states the MC was for “conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on several occasions when bringing up rations and material to the front line on pack animals, over very difficult country and under almost continuous shell fire.” It continued that “in spite of casualties to animals and a stampede caused by shells, he never failed to deliver the whole of the stores.”
Lt Bond’s son – Graham Forbes Bond (died 1983) was an active member of the British Motor Racing Marshals Club. His wife Georgina Crossman was the daughter of Peter Crossman of the Watney Mann Brewing chain who in 1962 bought the Tetworth Hall estate. According to local legend the Hall was requisitioned during WWII and it housed Italian & German PoWs. Was there a direct link with the secret operation going on at Tempsford Airfield? Local gossip had it that there must have been spies living there as sometimes lights were seen in the upstairs windows!!!
The Bond link with spies lives on…………….