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1969 Jaguar 240 [Mk.II] 
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![1969 Jaguar 240 [Mk.II]](i001120759.jpg)
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◊ 2018-03-08 14:51 |
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◊ 2018-03-11 23:45 |
These were imported fully assembled. The only Jaguar assembled in NZ was the XJ6. |
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◊ 2018-03-11 23:49 |
Registered as a 2.4 but has to be a 240 because of its date. It appears to have had its original registration cancelled and been reregistered in 2004. Its original plate would have been a silver on black with beginning letters somewhere in the series FB through FE. https://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=byl750 |
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◊ 2018-03-11 23:53 |
I remember on carjam there was written made in NZ... mistake then?  |
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◊ 2018-03-12 00:57 |
I've never seen a reference to Mk2 production in NZ or anywhere else outside UK. There are references to some Mk.V Jaguar assembly in 1950 and then a jump to 1971 when NZ-built XJ6s started exports to Aus ( https://www.aronline.co.uk/around-the-world/around-the-world-new-zealand/) but I've no idea what may or may not have happened between those dates. |
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◊ 2018-03-12 19:54 |
Fairly certain there was no assembly of Jaguars here before the XJ6. They were built in the NZMC plant in Nelson, which later built Honda Civic sand Accords. I would be surprised if there was any assembly of MkVs as there were so few imported. |
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◊ 2018-03-12 19:56 |
I checked the carjam reports and, yes, it does say NZ assembled. but that can't be right. Maybe when it was reregistered in 2006 they counted that it had been fully restored/rebuilt here. |
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◊ 2020-12-16 22:42 |
@nzcarnerd the VIN you see was issued at some point in time (not sure the exact date probably when the plate was issued). The original VIN seems to be chassis number (in most cases). |
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◊ 2020-12-16 23:24 |
Have done some rechecking and still total diddley-squat for anything in NZ, but did stumble on a couple of oddities which break the anywhere else outside UK statement, so listing here for the record: - 1957 Mk1 in Mexico - 214 built ((152 2.4s and 62 3.4s) - not much detail but it was a device to get round local taxes which piggy-backed some Mexican-build of Rootes-jewels (about which I know nothing, but it might explain why there was a brief flurry of Sunbeam Rapier racers in Mexico about this time, driven by Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez amongst others). The government changed the rules in 1958, so Jag, Rootes and whoever else pulled the plug. - 1960 (November onwards) Mk2 in South Africa - initial plans for several thousand a year, but again the rules changed to encourage local content. Unclear what happened, how many made and what versions, but seems to have made some then dwindled away within a year or two. More info welcome. |
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