The Jag Mk10 was a really exotic car and huge too. There's one parked on the street near where I live - slowly rotting away sadly, but it's taken a few knocks from passing traffic just because it is so wide. I wonder how many people bought them and the couldn't fit them in the garage? Later on Jaguar re-badged this car as the 420G and brought out the 420 which is a hybrid between this and the S Type, in effect it has the same profile as the Mk10, but is a foot narrower. I own a 420 badged as a Daimler Sovereign and even cut down it is still a huge car. Curiously enough my Daimler started life the same colour as this model although it is silver now. Smooth as silk to drive, but incredibly noisy because of all the chrome round the doors.

My model is a bit battered but I think if I replace the missing headlamp it will be OK. However Chris Davidson's lovely boxed example in the rarer dark blue metallic shows the car as it was 45 years ago. I actually owned one of these which I got new in 1962, one of the few Corgis I actually got my hands on. It had two suitcases in the boot, one of which opened and I loved it. Unfortunately the bonnet snapped off, but I still loved it. You can see just how much I loved it by having a look in my toy-box as my original toy is there in all its broken glory.

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