In 1974, a young lad watched his dad arrive home in British Racing Green Jaguar 420G. That car made a huge impression on the young lad and to this day some 47 years later he has owned nine Jaguar's and still craves another classic Jaguar. That young lad is me, and to see this video brings back many brilliant memories!
When I was 10 years old a doctor used to visit an elderly lady who lived across the road from our house , he had a golden sand MK10 I used to just stand and look at it and wait for him to leave so I could see him driving away in this magnificent car . From then I vowed some day I would have one I am now fortunate to have six Jaguar cars one being a 1969 420G totally original with 37000 genuine miles from new and also being a very rare manual overdrive version .
I'm addicted to this car. In my former years I had a teacher, who teached us in latin, he was driving this great car. During his lectures we convinced him to tell us the stories of his holidays to Turkey with his Jag. I'm so grateful for this stories.
Brilliant film, I can remember walking to school as a child in the 1970s England on route was the most fascinating car I had ever seen it reminded me of the Thunderbird car simply stunning anyway now many years on and yes of course these gorgeous cars still pull my heart strings. Thank you so much for posting. sammy coyle from little old England.
One of the lovliest British cars ever made. So elegant with huge road presence. If only they could still be purchased in today's market.. I'd have one in a jiffy. Nothing on the road looks as good as this inside and out.
My sister in law father owned one so was lucky to get regular rides in it working in his hotel in the summer holidays, the interior felt a very special place to sit the engine sounded lovely a smooth effortless limo ride.
A black 420G is one of my dream cars, if money was no problem. It looks absolutely sinister, in a beautiful way. I was close to considering buying one a few years back, but it wouldn't have fitted into the garage. Did you notice, classic Jaguars don't have cigarette lighters? They have cigar lighters.
From the side it is the most beautiful shape Jaguar ever designed. The rear is beautifully sculpted but the front with its bulbous sides was controversial. However the 4 main lights were iconic and as for the interior sumptuous is an understatement.
When Jaguar was the best for craftsmanship and looks and racing cars like these will never be made again these cars have soul they have heart they just amazing I love cars a lot and I love Jaguars always have done
I have always been fascinated by this model. Just beautiful. Our family took our first trip to England and Europe in 1967 when I was 15, and I first saw it then. NEVER forgot it. I have two VDP sedans... a 2001 (titanium) and 2002 (slate mica) . I love their sculpted lines...would have loved to own a 420G. There's nothing like a Jaguar (and with a great mechanic, it's no big deal to own one)0.
Stunning cars. This is the Jag that made me fall in love with the marque as a kid. Don't know that it would be much fun driving one on London's congested 21st century streets though 🙂
If I was ever to come into enough money, I would own one of these in a heartbeat. my older sister's ex partner owned a MK X back in the 70's, and had few drives in it. absolutely beautiful car.
Nice film. When I was a kid (late 70's) dad got one delivered home (much to mums disapproval) on the back of a trailer, the head gasket had gone, so he reckoned to fix it up. It was in the garage for years with its back end stuck out and the garage door tied down. Engine in bits. It's was too big to fit. I remember playing on the back seat and the smell of it inside. Gold & black it was. Have to ask him what happened to it, don't remember TBH.
Glad you mentioned the smell! I was car sick in one as a child and to this day a strong smell of leather still makes me feel nauseous! Lovely cars, we had a Mk2, a Mk10 and a couple of XJ6. Sadly I never got to own one of my own.
Lovely car. It’s seems amazing that it was built in England in the Sixties, travelled all the way to Australia and still looks great after all these years…
Truly a thing of beauty. By the late 70’s and early 80’s these and the earlier mk10’s were to be seen, everywhere, unloved and rotting away in every town in the UK. Zero rust protection coupled with buyers who gave not a thought to longevity or preservation. Thankfully a couple of hundred have survived. Have Jaguar ever made a car that wasn’t beautiful to behold?
The Mk 10 and 420G are the vintage Jaguar to own if you are of a larger size (height and/or girth). I've had several, and can tell you that the cabin is a very serene place to watch the scenery pass you by, in comfort, at highway speed. It's hard to believe that Jaguar decided to "replace" the 420G with the XJ6 series I, a much smaller car with similar styling. I guess they felt that if you needed that big car, you'd buy a Daimler DS420, a car built on an extended wheelbase of the 420G platform, and which was advertised in one brochure (assumed to be seriously named) entitled "Your Daimler Limousine is here, your Excellency".
While still enamored by the sheer style and detail of my 1969 E type, this car was considered to be unworthy of the leaping Cat. As I have aged my appreciation of the brilliance of combining the performance of the Jaguar chassis with the ambiance of the Bentley finally struck. Yes My Mark 10 is black with black interior.
I have a Jaguar 2006 S Type and I feel super British man driving it, no-fingers gloves, in winter time I wear my leather jacket. Greetings from 🇨🇱 Santiago Chile SouthAmerica
From 1973 onward I'd visit scrapyards (Britain) for odds&ends there were all kinds of Jags. I loved sitting in them admiring the walnut & leather, quality carpets, that old Jaguar/Daimler smell, the dials, switches, fold down tables like in airliners. Although beautiful in every way they rusted badly, not lasting long. Positive earth, salty roads in winter I was told.
I love these cars, beautiful. I wish Jag had made a Daimler 450 with a tweaked 4.5 V8 Daimler engine an extra luxurious interior and a LWB option. I bet it would have done well in the US. I owned one, a Corgi and it was pride of the fleet.
From Sydney, Australia, my mum bought a new black with cream seats Jag mk10 in November 1961 & replaced it near 10 years later with a 1971 opalescent gunmetal grey 420G the second last new one delivered to Australia she kept it for decades when a drunk in a truck hit it & wrecked it. I bought a 1967 cream with oxblood (deep maroon) leather seats in 1975 i still own & drive it. I had multiple toy ones as a child, I bought all 10 colors of the Corgi ones, 3 colors of the Dinky toy ones, 2 out of 4 colors of the Spot on ones as they were expensive, then 3 different brands of 1/24th scale plastic ones , all 4 colors of the big 1/20th scale Telsalda ones and one gigantic 1/12 scale Laurie toys one towing a 1.5litre GP Ferrari race car on a trailer. Worried that they may break as they were fragile brittle plastic I put all the big plastic ones in a glass & wood cabinet I scavenged from a demolished house as a 9 year old. I still have all of them, the real one I bought years ago & ALL the toy ones, the big plastic ones are like new. A mint boxed Laurie Toys 1/12 scale one with the Ferrari race car is no longer a 19/6pence set , but on ebay or an auction house its now a 1,000pound antique!! I used to stand looking at them , my prized possessions in the glass cabinet , Nanna said you can look & wish with all your might , but they will not turn into a real one !! My looking at them was my absolute determination to have one in reality in my then coming future as an adult. In '61 I saw the real ones being made at the Jaguar factory, escorted through the factory with my hand held as a 6 yr old by Norman Dewis. MK10's were hand built sitting on enormous wheeled work dollies, when all was complete a crane using the 4 jacking points lifted the fully completed body with all its interior fitted & lowered it onto the suspension units, front & rear. All the wood pieces are numbered & belong to a certain car, impressive to a six year old. E types & Mk2's were all going around on conveyors being part built & moved along, the mk10's were not they sat on their own some being built/assembled by hand. Re the Daimler 450 version of a mk10, jaguar were going to do it but when they floated as a public company & BMC bought the magic 51% they were told cease. The different dash top with the black crash pads & the knee protecting tray crash pads in black & the chrome waist strip, even the new grille as fitted to the 420G were all to be the different Daimler fittings, look at the grill slat material on the 420G it is the same hollow square cut grille material as the Daimler 250 sedan & the Daimler Sovereign 1A (ie the clone of the jaguar 420 compact prior to the xj6 daimlers). To absolutely stop Jaguar from building them, all remaining completed Daimler 4.5 Hemi engines were one day collected, same with all the tooling, all spare parts by order of BMC, removed & smelted down so said Norman Dewis. For a 6 months from may to november 1966 Jaguar built the big ZENITH cars in 2 flavours 4.2 mk10 & 420G, this was the exact same time when all the engines were taken away, all they had to do was make a new grill frame without the Daimler flutes at the top , as all the grill slats had already been cut, the black plastic with gold lettering Daimler to cover the mk10 bootlid plinth's Jaguar script were used on the Sovereign's & later first few years of the Daimler DS420 limousines, this plastic piece is tooled & molded to fit & be glued over the Jaguar lettering , like fitting a hand into a glove
For me this was one of the first big land cruising British cars back then that actually looked great and balanced on the road Something about Jaguar's that others take from?!
Wow this takes me back. My dad had one of these back home in Cornwall in gunmetal grey with red interior. Wish I could remember the whole number plate to see if it’s still on the road PAF???G. What I do remember is that as a kid in the early 80’s in wreaked of petrol in the back seat and we were forever having to pull over as either my brother or I were being sick! 🤢 Great times!
By definition has to be one of the very best .....in the world . A very much maligned and neglected motor car. I've seen a number very recently that are beyond saving . Back in the early 1970's l was offered a 3.8 manual in very nice condition for the princely sum of £60 .00p !!! We all have tales to tell !! Thanks For sharing
You might at least have shown us all over the car, instead of the same bits again. I especially would like to see the picnic tables that fold out from the rear of the front seats. Also the front bench type seat.
In 1974, a young lad watched his dad arrive home in British Racing Green Jaguar 420G. That car made a huge impression on the young lad and to this day some 47 years later he has owned nine Jaguar's and still craves another classic Jaguar.
That young lad is me, and to see this video brings back many brilliant memories!
She's a true beauty ...a treasure !
They just don't make them like that anymore ....thank you for sharing .....you can be very proud 👏
A neglected classic for many years - beautiful design!
When I was 10 years old a doctor used to visit an elderly lady who lived across the road from our house , he had a golden sand MK10 I used to just stand and look at it and wait for him to leave so I could see him driving away in this magnificent car . From then I vowed some day I would have one I am now fortunate to have six Jaguar cars one being a 1969 420G totally original with 37000 genuine miles from new and also being a very rare manual overdrive version .
The best ever looking Jag ever made , EVER.
I prefer the 420.
You’re right, Simon
Saloon Jag!
I'm addicted to this car. In my former years I had a teacher, who teached us in latin, he was driving this great car. During his lectures we convinced him to tell us the stories of his holidays to Turkey with his Jag. I'm so grateful for this stories.
My folks had a ‘67 g in Texas back in the late ‘70’s. RHD too. Remember being driven to school in it. It was a wonderful car.
Ok that is a very beautiful car.
If i ever had to go to a big board meeting,,THIS is The Car I want to waft into The car park in...420g THE BOSS....
Brilliant film, I can remember walking to school as a child in the 1970s England on route was the most fascinating car I had ever seen it reminded me of the Thunderbird car simply stunning anyway now many years on and yes of course these gorgeous cars still pull my heart strings. Thank you so much for posting. sammy coyle from little old England.
One of the lovliest British cars ever made. So elegant with huge road presence. If only they could still be purchased in today's market.. I'd have one in a jiffy. Nothing on the road looks as good as this inside and out.
My sister in law father owned one so was lucky to get regular rides in it working in his hotel in the summer holidays, the interior felt a very special place to sit the engine sounded lovely a smooth effortless limo ride.
Cars with soul.
My favorite, I love all jags but this badass or rather badarsed beauty is my favorite.
Thanks for the video.
A black 420G is one of my dream cars, if money was no problem.
It looks absolutely sinister, in a beautiful way.
I was close to considering buying one a few years back,
but it wouldn't have fitted into the garage.
Did you notice, classic Jaguars don't have cigarette lighters?
They have cigar lighters.
Perfect car
From the side it is the most beautiful shape Jaguar ever designed. The rear is beautifully sculpted but the front with its bulbous sides was controversial. However the 4 main lights were iconic and as for the interior sumptuous is an understatement.
I've never been a big fan of Jaguars however this one I take exception
When Jaguar was the best for craftsmanship and looks and racing cars like these will never be made again these cars have soul they have heart they just amazing I love cars a lot and I love Jaguars always have done
Exquisite!
An absolute work of art.. A real Jaaag! Not a soul less
box full of microchips and electric motors.4 wheel mobile phone.
everything with sir lions at the helm was just about amazing
I have always been fascinated by this model. Just beautiful. Our family took our first trip to England and Europe in 1967 when I was 15, and I first saw it then. NEVER forgot it. I have two VDP sedans... a 2001 (titanium) and 2002 (slate mica) . I love their sculpted lines...would have loved to own a 420G. There's nothing like a Jaguar (and with a great mechanic, it's no big deal to own one)0.
Stunning cars. This is the Jag that made me fall in love with the marque as a kid. Don't know that it would be much fun driving one on London's congested 21st century streets though 🙂
If I was ever to come into enough money, I would own one of these in a heartbeat. my older sister's ex partner owned a MK X back in the 70's, and had few drives in it. absolutely beautiful car.
Loved seeing these as a Coventry kid!
Nice film. When I was a kid (late 70's) dad got one delivered home (much to mums disapproval) on the back of a trailer, the head gasket had gone, so he reckoned to fix it up. It was in the garage for years with its back end stuck out and the garage door tied down. Engine in bits. It's was too big to fit. I remember playing on the back seat and the smell of it inside. Gold & black it was. Have to ask him what happened to it, don't remember TBH.
Glad you mentioned the smell! I was car sick in one as a child and to this day a strong smell of leather still makes me feel nauseous! Lovely cars, we had a
Mk2, a Mk10 and a couple of XJ6. Sadly I never got to own one of my own.
Lovely 420G
Lovely car. It’s seems amazing that it was built in England in the Sixties, travelled all the way to Australia and still looks great after all these years…
Truly a thing of beauty. By the late 70’s and early 80’s these and the earlier mk10’s were to be seen, everywhere, unloved and rotting away in every town in the UK. Zero rust protection coupled with buyers who gave not a thought to longevity or preservation. Thankfully a couple of hundred have survived. Have Jaguar ever made a car that wasn’t beautiful to behold?
I have a 08 XKR but if I was to go for an affordable classic, 420 G for me, in black. Menacing presence, not to be messed with!
It's a work of art. Not opulent but majestic. I know what I mean.
A thing of beauty is a JOY FOREVER
What a line up Jaguar had back then
Very loveley Video. 🙂👍👍
Thank You - Absolutely Gorgeous - The Jaguar 420G
Beautiful car.
X350、X351とXJを乗り継いできましたが、420の佇まいは別格ですね。
ウッドの使い方は贅沢で、メーターやスイッチ類の配置まで気を遣っている。いつかはほしいね。
Utterly, utterly beautifull..😆👍💖
The Mk 10 and 420G are the vintage Jaguar to own if you are of a larger size (height and/or girth). I've had several, and can tell you that the cabin is a very serene place to watch the scenery pass you by, in comfort, at highway speed. It's hard to believe that Jaguar decided to "replace" the 420G with the XJ6 series I, a much smaller car with similar styling. I guess they felt that if you needed that big car, you'd buy a Daimler DS420, a car built on an extended wheelbase of the 420G platform, and which was advertised in one brochure (assumed to be seriously named) entitled "Your Daimler Limousine is here, your Excellency".
While still enamored by the sheer style and detail of my 1969 E type, this car was considered to be unworthy of the leaping Cat. As I have aged my appreciation of the brilliance of combining the performance of the Jaguar chassis with the ambiance of the Bentley finally struck. Yes My Mark 10 is black with black interior.
Fantastic video. Beautiful Jaguar! Great production. Thanks.
叔父が乗ってました。
不調だったエンジンをチェーンブロックで下ろし、完璧に調整してからは絶好調でした。
少ししか運転してないけど兎に角素晴らしかった。
Very good filming, perfect music choice!
I have a Jaguar 2006 S Type and I feel super British man driving it, no-fingers gloves, in winter time I wear my leather jacket.
Greetings from 🇨🇱
Santiago Chile SouthAmerica
From 1973 onward I'd visit scrapyards (Britain) for odds&ends there were all kinds of Jags.
I loved sitting in them admiring the walnut & leather, quality carpets, that old Jaguar/Daimler smell, the dials, switches, fold down tables like in airliners.
Although beautiful in every way they rusted badly, not lasting long. Positive earth, salty roads in winter I was told.
The essence of Jaguars
Delightful 😀
I love these cars, beautiful. I wish Jag had made a Daimler 450 with a tweaked 4.5 V8 Daimler engine an extra luxurious interior and a LWB option. I bet it would have done well in the US. I owned one, a Corgi and it was pride of the fleet.
You never forget your Toy models of Cars like these.
From Sydney, Australia, my mum bought a new black with cream seats Jag mk10 in November 1961 & replaced it near 10 years later with a 1971 opalescent gunmetal grey 420G the second last new one delivered to Australia she kept it for decades when a drunk in a truck hit it & wrecked it. I bought a 1967 cream with oxblood (deep maroon) leather seats in 1975 i still own & drive it. I had multiple toy ones as a child, I bought all 10 colors of the Corgi ones, 3 colors of the Dinky toy ones, 2 out of 4 colors of the Spot on ones as they were expensive, then 3 different brands of 1/24th scale plastic ones , all 4 colors of the big 1/20th scale Telsalda ones and one gigantic 1/12 scale Laurie toys one towing a 1.5litre GP Ferrari race car on a trailer. Worried that they may break as they were fragile brittle plastic I put all the big plastic ones in a glass & wood cabinet I scavenged from a demolished house as a 9 year old. I still have all of them, the real one I bought years ago & ALL the toy ones, the big plastic ones are like new. A mint boxed Laurie Toys 1/12 scale one with the Ferrari race car is no longer a 19/6pence set , but on ebay or an auction house its now a 1,000pound antique!! I used to stand looking at them , my prized possessions in the glass cabinet , Nanna said you can look & wish with all your might , but they will not turn into a real one !! My looking at them was my absolute determination to have one in reality in my then coming future as an adult. In '61 I saw the real ones being made at the Jaguar factory, escorted through the factory with my hand held as a 6 yr old by Norman Dewis. MK10's were hand built sitting on enormous wheeled work dollies, when all was complete a crane using the 4 jacking points lifted the fully completed body with all its interior fitted & lowered it onto the suspension units, front & rear. All the wood pieces are numbered & belong to a certain car, impressive to a six year old. E types & Mk2's were all going around on conveyors being part built & moved along, the mk10's were not they sat on their own some being built/assembled by hand. Re the Daimler 450 version of a mk10, jaguar were going to do it but when they floated as a public company & BMC bought the magic 51% they were told cease. The different dash top with the black crash pads & the knee protecting tray crash pads in black & the chrome waist strip, even the new grille as fitted to the 420G were all to be the different Daimler fittings, look at the grill slat material on the 420G it is the same hollow square cut grille material as the Daimler 250 sedan & the Daimler Sovereign 1A (ie the clone of the jaguar 420 compact prior to the xj6 daimlers). To absolutely stop Jaguar from building them, all remaining completed Daimler 4.5 Hemi engines were one day collected, same with all the tooling, all spare parts by order of BMC, removed & smelted down so said Norman Dewis. For a 6 months from may to november 1966 Jaguar built the big ZENITH cars in 2 flavours 4.2 mk10 & 420G, this was the exact same time when all the engines were taken away, all they had to do was make a new grill frame without the Daimler flutes at the top , as all the grill slats had already been cut, the black plastic with gold lettering Daimler to cover the mk10 bootlid plinth's Jaguar script were used on the Sovereign's & later first few years of the Daimler DS420 limousines, this plastic piece is tooled & molded to fit & be glued over the Jaguar lettering , like fitting a hand into a glove
Sehr Elegant. 👍🙂
GREAT Video !!.....Thank you very much.....
That’s a proper jag-Jeremy clarckson
Oh lord...what a beauty she is...❤️
I owned one of the rare 420G’s with the glass division from 1977 to 1983 even remember the reg number BPE709H loved that car.
Looks ! like a nice car but would have loved an overview with commentary and it put up on a ramp.
This is what i would buy when i have the money for that dream.
For me this was one of the first big land cruising British cars back then that actually looked great and balanced on the road Something about Jaguar's that others take from?!
How lovely to see a video filmed so well and not to have to listen to thrash or stupid heavy metal music to accompany it 👍
Now this is a proper viainous car.
My uncle had one when i was about 5 never forget sitting in it, he also had a mk10 stunning cars,,,
Wow this takes me back. My dad had one of these back home in Cornwall in gunmetal grey with red interior. Wish I could remember the whole number plate to see if it’s still on the road PAF???G. What I do remember is that as a kid in the early 80’s in wreaked of petrol in the back seat and we were forever having to pull over as either my brother or I were being sick! 🤢 Great times!
My first car. Red. Great.
Beautiful and wild... Rooaarr!! :)
By definition has to be one of the very best .....in the world . A very much maligned and neglected motor car. I've seen a number very recently that are beyond saving . Back in the early 1970's l was offered a 3.8 manual in very nice condition for the princely sum of £60 .00p !!! We all have tales to tell !! Thanks For sharing
Absolutely amazing
You might at least have shown us all over the car, instead of the same bits again. I especially would like to see the picnic tables that fold out from the rear of the front seats. Also the front bench type seat.
hats off sir..
Does anyone else think this dashboard is much easier to use than anything on a modern car?
And you guys drive on the correct side of the road
That Mark 10 is a Proper Jaaaaaaaaaag
So, what's the difference between the Mark 10 and the 420?
Be still my heart
Gorgeous car. I always wanted my father to buy one, but he stuck with Bentley, which seemed much lumpier.
That key ring would annoy me scraping that beautiful dash !!
Tell me about the sublime suspension....
basically an E-type rear end.
When a car has a "Cigar" lighter, not a cigarette lighter... :)
Wowwwwwwww
I have a '67 420G, BRG factory A/C, power windows, black leather,with a vinyl top (fac). The be all end all of 4 dr. Jaguars.
Vinyl roofs are just wrong.
@@tcmag62 mustaches are just wrong
@@gf4353 😄
The mpg mister. You think we get it for free? Less of that nauseating music and more pratical info
Deserves a V12 restomod.
What Philistine has screwed modern door mirrors on?
Truly British.
Sorry, I was very excited till I read that it only comes as an Automatic!! Old autos break frequently and they are expensive to fix.
Sweet car! Nice video, check out more, thanks!
STOP that (unessessary) LOUD
"music".!!!
To watch the video, I HAD to CUT the sound.
Pleeeeese...
How can something so beautiful come out of Coventry
I would really prefer the engine sound tonthe music!
idk if the music is fit for a car as evil and villainous as that car
магия Ягуара
Essence of a Jaag
When it comes to great cars and/or geeky driving, you have to wear leather gloves. 👍🏻
👍
Is it so dirty in this car that it must be driven with gloves?
Toujours ces plans rapprochés où l'on ne voit rien!
Jag 420 G review
ua-cam.com/video/OyYxglUJBY4/v-deo.html
Is that Harry Worth driving 🤣
skip the music...
As good as a Bentley...
Not a great success in the market, but the XJ6 was based on this car.
If you have a look at the 420 (rather than the 420G) you will see a lot more similarities with an XJ.
The Jaguar 420 the car named after marijuana
British is Best and isn't that all the time ?