I Bought One of the Rarest Jaguar Made (and it's my DREAM CAR!) 

My dear husband Chris (he died a year ago) was a Jaguar enthusiast who watched your videos Adam. He always rated the pre HE highly. Particularly the V12. I absorbed a lot of his knowledge but wish I had half his genius in the garage. Enjoy your new motor.

So pleased for you Adam. I’ve owned and restored my 1978 XJ-S dream car for 10yrs now. I’ve wanted one since I was a wee boy and get as much joy just sitting in it 😂

What a find. Plan thoroughly and go step by step. Yes that model is worth every penny you spend on it assuming the basic shell is OK. Best from the UK.

Merry Christmas to you. Your videos are a real service to the Jaguar community and much needed inspiration and motivation to myself. As for your coupe - I have never seen a rust free version in it original state never! - it’s not only rare - it’s a miracle. All the best for you and your enterprise in 2024.

Adam, Im glad for you. Great to see you have acquired your dream car, but more over that you are going to start your own full time classic car repair shop. I still can remember your first video...I wouldnt have expected those times that you would get to this point :) Huge congratulations. Even i have no more time to watch your chanel regulary, i still do watch some of your videos time to time... You are still a huge motivation and inspiration to slowly continue with my 420G project. Finger crossed and wish to you and all your family only the best in 2024... Good luck and keep going.

As a school boy I used to polish my neighbours 4.2 XJ6 in about 1975. His name was Jim Porter and lived at 76 Kings Avenue, Bromley, Kent. He used to drive it to his house in Spain with his wife. I remember how nice it was, finished in dark blue with grey interior, which I still think has one of the nicest interiors in the world. Great you have this beautiful rare coupe, great project. Happy Christmas.

I totally agree with you, they are incredible.. Congrats..

Dark blue interior, that’s the dogs bollocks and carbs as well. How nice can it get?What a beauty.

When I was a mechanic this was my favourite engine to tune! The customer would bring it in running like 💩 and I would send it back out running like a sowing machine.

What a great find Adam, really pleased for you. I love original cars. Whenever I go to a classic car show, I get and admire the fully restored cars, but I absolutely adore the original cars with warts and all. As the saying goes, “ there only original once”.

Well done Adam really happy for you. Wishing you and your family a merry Christmas

Mid 1970's Jaguar-Daimler advertising was all about "aspiration". As you saw with the full line brochure, it's a "lifestyle" they were selling. Perhaps the ultimate in Daimler advertising is 1975's "The Daimler Limousine is here, your excellency", a brochure for the DS420. Also worth looking for is the 1975 Daimler Sovereign brochure where the chauffer is removing the car cover on the "master's new car", a Daimler sedan.

Congratulations Adam! You deserve this beautiful XJ Coupe. Enjoy the journey. I'm looking forward to seeing you progress through this project to keep[ these wonderful cars alive. Here I was, thinking I had the only rust-free example!

Congratulations! I just got my 75 XJ12C running after sitting 20 years. Your channel helped a lot in getting it going. Thanks!

I have to agree with you, this is one of the best looking cars full stop. Harry Metcalfe's car is probably my favourite car on RU-vid. Amazing.

One sweet ride, Adam! Get that Jag back on the road this spring! God Jul to you and your family!

Happy for you! ☺️

Congratulations on your XJ12-C! I've been working on Jaguars for nearly 25 years now, with more E-Types than I can remember coming through the shop and there's a beautiful '53 XK120 that I service yearly, but I've only had the pleasure of working on ONE XJ12-C that entire time. It's the only one I've ever seen in person, so yes - a rare car indeed. Glorious to drive, like any Series II or Series III sedan, but with a bit more sporting personality if you will. My personal dream car would be a 6 cylinder version with manual transmission, but here in the States I believe they're almost non-existent. Enjoy your car! It will be very happy with its new owner, I'm quite certain.

Wow Adam! Brilliant. I can hear how pleased you are. Very astute move and I can't wait until you start! Exciting times ahead. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Great car looking forward to seeing more of it. As the owner of a Japanese S3 Daimler D6, I understand how nice it is to have something that isn't a patchwork of welding & paint.

Congrats, Adam!!! My brother and I were given two cars, me a silver 1975 Mercedes 240D, and my brother got...a regency red with black top 1975 Jaguar XJ12 Coupe... Both were Corgi models (hah!), but even then I rather have had the Jaguar and felt there was a mistake made! The hood on the Jaguar opened forward, which impressed me, and I've loved the cars since. I satisfy my love with just one, but like you, I have my dream car. Your videos are always informational, and good luck with the 2024 endeavors!!!!

Congrats Adam !! The video shows your emotion when you reveal the car, nice ! Your appoach is respecfull to the state of the car en your emotions to it. I am looking forward to the ressurection of this XJC V12 👍

Merry Christmas, one and all. Love the Coupe!

Wow Adam, congratulations on your awesome find. Well done! She'll look fantastic with some TLC.

I am in full agreement. My favourite Jag too.

Very nice. I have to agree that the Coupe is a stunning car. I'm very envious. A very happy Christmas to you and your family Adam and to everyone here.

Excellent project.

I agree that they are a beautiful car. When these were new I worked with a gentleman whose wife had a Daimler XJ12C as her company car. She was the personal secretary to the Melbourne Jaguar distributor. It was a lovely car. Before this she had a Daimler 250 that had a Benz engine factory fitted as a celebration of Karl benz. I never found out what happened to that car.

That's a fabulous project! Can't wait to see more 😊

Well done! You are gradually building a beautiful collection of the best Jags! Just need a Mark 10 now……😬! All the best to you and your family for Christmas and the New Year! Exciting times!

Congratulations! Well done Adam to purchase your dream car. Looking forward to upcoming videos. 👍🇦🇺

Well done. Also my favourite Jaguar car, the 2 door coupe V12.

I worked on these Cars in the early 80s when you opened the door I swear I could smell that car.

Oh my, ive just gone green with envy! What a fabulous find, and in wonderful condition. Cant wait to see more 😊

Great find Adam! Once you get it running let's have an international meet of XJ12C owners, i'll be in..

Merry Christmas, Adam, nice present.

Its great you got your dream car and we will be able to come on the recommissioning journey with you.

Lovely beast. Harry Metcalf did one up. A very pretty car

What an XMAS present! BRAVO = a Beauty!

Definitely!!! I want to see videos on this amazing XJ12C project car from Tom!

Merry Christmas to you, Adam! Congratulations on finding your unicorn! That has to be very satisfying. You have many years ahead of you in life, so don’t rush it. Do it right.

For someone so dedicated to these cars, I think we can all relate to how pleased you must be with it.

Great car,look forward to seeing this one on the channel.i must admit that i have allways prefered the four door saloons tho.my 1968 s type has finally come back from the paintshop,after more than 2 years.still love your channel after atleast 3 years of watching you.

Merry Christmas to you and your family Adam. What a lovely XJ12-C, the navy-blue leather interior is fabulous and the body amazingly clean. Even under the bonnet looks clean. A sympathetic restoration sounds great-will be thrilled to see your progress once you get going. Best of luck with your business for the New Year.

Congratulations a wonderful car and the brochure is lovely. As a kid I lived near the dealership the salesman was happy to talk and give me brochures. The old colour codes are so interesting.

From 1 12c owner to another, welcome to the club!

Congrats! Would be interested to know in a future video how you came to acquire this car and what you know of its history. Also, mileage on it. Best of luck in going full time with RU-vid and Jag repairs. Your videos are always so refreshingly honest and real.

Looks cold there mate. Nice car can't wait to see it running.

Merry chrismas, too you too, thanks for the video, nice car.

Congrats! I wish you great success in your business venture and your dream car. Drew and I still have some parts if you need anything.

Congratulations - that’s one of my dream cars too (after the pre-HE XJS)……..looks beautiful!

Well done, I'm delighted you have made your dream come true. I agree with you, I have personally owned a V12 E Type FHC, but the car to have is the XJ12C, they are simply the best and hard to find here in the UK. I'm looking forward to see this come out of hibernation 🙂

Great find Adam! Looking forward to future videos on it.

Good luck with that absolute beast of a classic

I totally agree with you, XJC is the most beautiful Jag. So cool to hear that this was your dream car. I have a few of the myself. Greetings from Norway

Love that dream car. Lucky you and lucky us!

Your garage looks like my dream garage. The XJ12C are the most beautiful Jaguar.

Hi Adam, what a fantastic buy for you! I don't know if you are aware or have seen 'Harry's Garage ' on RU-vid, but he bought an XJ Coupe and his video may give you some good hints/tips. Happy Christmas to you and your family!

Used to know a guy who had several XJCs, I know at least some were V12s.

Merry Christmas to you and you're family Adam. Amazing that you found you're dream car. Thanks for the content, wish you all the best for the business and RU-vid channel 🎉

The carb’d XJ12Cs are super super rare. There was one in a field behind SNG Barratt in Manchester New Hampshire USA, along with a second XJ12C. I used to pull parts off them for my XJ12C (that was fuel injected). They’re long gone now. Someone gave me an engine-less XJ6C with a Series 1 front end and some Daimler parts. Going to smash it together with a rusted out XJS and make a Daimler Double Six Vanden Plas Series 1 Coupe… a car that doesn’t really exist but can with all OEM parts. Should be fun! And Expensive! Good luck on opening a Jaguar shop.

Very cool car, I’m following you closely as I’m looking after my ‘71 s3 e-type, I find the V12 a fascinating engine, but complex, mines not running too well atm, so I looking at you for inspiration 👍👍👋

What an XMAS present! BRAVO = a Beauty! Dark blue interior. OMG, the exterior for me should be Baby Blue metallic with this interior!

Congrats..love the content!!

Beautiful Jag! Jaguar makes the most beautiful cars there are. I followed your channel since the beginning. Awesome channel! Personally I think Jaguar has made the most beautiful cars ever made and in no particular order are in my opinion of course the Jaguar E-type, the 1990 jaguar XJS convertible or similar year. The pre-HE jaguar XJS and of course the XJ 12 coupe like here on this episode. You pretty much have all four already don't you? Just need that E-type Adam. Exceptional collection. And yes take your time with this beauty. Like a fine wine. No need to rush somethings so damn awesome and cool.

Those surface rust spots in the paint can be rubbed with a lemon then rinsed. Works wonders!

Hi Adam, I recently bought a XJC V12 as well but mine is a 1976. It’s been sitting for 8 years so a project for me as well. Congrats and look forward to seeing more videos on this car.

That's truely brilliant Adam what a find I am excited for you and it will great to see you clean her off and get her started I hope you can get the parts you need we have had difficulty sourceing parts for my XJS which surprised me trying to get original parts as been hard going but we are getting their. I wish you well when you start your full time working on customers cars as well as your own Merry Christmas & Happy New Year looking forward to following you in 2024 as always best wishes Andy Allen.

gorgeous. I approve of this dream car

Congratulations, Adam! My C is my favourite Merry Christmas!

Nice Christmas gift! Hope we'll see this car in shiny condition on the road making You smile like a child! ^_^

Greetings from down under I also love the 12c I have 2 one I have just finished and one I am starting which is in a bad way both Australian delivered as I do all the work myself I find your channel invaluable keep up the great work

Congratulations on get this awesome XJC, what a fantastic car, I love the interior, the colour is perfect. Also one of my dream cars, which I hope to have one at some point. My Dad and I are currently recommissioning an xj6 3.4, which has been sitting in a garage for the last 24 years. It actually looks very similar to yours. We’ve been documenting it on our RU-vid channel. Really looking forward to seeing you work on this one. Regards Mark.

Well Adam, you held that suspense over me, I was on the edge of my seat, was it a Jag, XK120, 140 or 150, they are really beautiful, or an XKE, you already have the XJ6 and an XJ12, but when you showed the brochure, it was an, oh yah, from me. I wonder if you daughter will like it better than the XJ6, my bet is nope. LOL. Well done, you deserve that beautiful XJC V12 carbed edition.

Wow, no snow in Sweden, an early Christmas present, a Swedish dude who likes Brits cars more than Saabs and Volvos. What a wonderful world to be? Very good score, Adam. My problem with Jaguar is I like 'em all up too 1997 and more. Happy Holidays!

Yes its great to own your dream car . Looking forward to your future projects . I never have the issue of dry storage living in Yuma , AZ where its dry 350 days a year . While I own a HE car I still enjoy the older cars .

Great content, happy Christmas from the UK.👋👍

What a beautiful car :-0) looking forward to seeing you getting it back t its former glory. Best, Steve in the uk 🇬🇧

I'm sure you are aware but Harry's Garage did a restoration on an XJC. Hopefully you can avoid one or two of the problems Harry encountered. Good luck.

Congrats!

XJC is a bucket list car for me too.

Congrats Adam! My XJC 4.2 is sleeping right now after a great summer. You should consider to install a Tudor Sunroof which I have, and that gives the car almost a convertible feeling. Nice Holidays for you and the family!

The rarest of them all and is just badged as a Vanden Plas double six. the most luxurious version ever built.

Really looking forward to the recommissioning. Any type of Series 2 XJ12 was my childhood dream car. I had a sedan in the early 1990s, but didn’t have the skills to repair it, even though I did try very hard.

Congrats on pulling the trigger on your dream car!

Congratulations on getting your dream car!

Hi Adam, from Sydney, Australia. I have always loved these, there were a pre-production pair sent to Sydney motor show back in 1973, a regency red 4.2 coupe and a turquoise V12 coupe. HOWEVER, they were finished as series one XJC's with the spectacular tall grill. I had just finished high school and was heading to uni in the new year. I was disappointed when they, Jaguar eventually launched the XJC's in late 1975 in Australia with the short series 2 grill. I was at uni' studying medicine to be a doctor and had a LHD '65 4.2ltr mk10 as my daily only affordable as it was LHD in an RHD country and soon all LHD cars in July '76 would be de-registered and put off Australian roads, so my mk10 was on borrowed time. However at last moment a scrappy Brit' import appeared cheaply in my lap. So my just retired industrial engineer granddad helped in the mid-year uni break to swap my "leftie" into being a "right-ie". I had it completed 2 weeks before the cutoff date. Having finished uni and gainfully employed by NSW Mental Healthcare, I had been saving like mad on a good wage to buy myself a 4.2 ltr XJC coupe, I wanted British racing green paint with biscuit color fabric interior. Then with the new federal budget, the federal government imposed a 44.75% import tax on luxury cars nearly but doubling the price, I WAS SO ANNOYED, they were then out of reach & soon to be gone with no series 3 version. I should have borrowed some cash and financed it before the fed's penalized the price .. SO, I bought what I thought at the time was the next best thing, but after 32 yrs of ownership, I feel the better built car, A super rare series 1 long wheelbase XJ6 in regency red with biscuit interior, had a mere 18,000miles on when I bought the car. Ordered by the Frenchman that ran/headed up Citra Constructions, that built natural gas pipelines across Australia in the early 1970's and all related infrastructure for the Federal government. Only 2,600 serries 1 LWB bodyshells were ever built, split Left drive/ right drive, 4.2 litre/ 5.3 litre, Jaguar/Daimler, you get down to just a couple of hundred of each, plus there were exactly 352 V12 5.3 litre Van Den Plas just ONE of these was LHD, for the US concessionaire as his personal car. Finally my own one was ordered and built as if it were a RHD 6 cylinder Van Den Plas with no vinyl roof, but fitted with ALL other Van Den Plas fittings, confounding people at car shows, however I had the order and build sheet, to prove factory genuine. After the 2 door XJC's had been on the road for a while many 2 door XJC's suffered badly with A pillar flex at both the top and bottom of the A pillar on front screen and this causing the smallest of cracks to appear lead to water coming into the car in small amounts, but causing a bad rust issue down the track and there can be nasty not visible rust growths upon the rear sill rails beneath the rear wind down windows too and nightmarish to fix as well. After 32years ownership I sold by XJ6L to a friend, as I had just purchased a one owner 50,025 mile original immaculate 1967 mk10/420G in the exact color combo as my original 1965 one near 40 years prior.

I adore the oval yellow gold cat head steering wheel badge

Very cool! If you can find a V12 E Type manual gearbox, it will fit right up. I have one in a S2 XJ12. We will be watching! Thanks, Rob

Hi Adam, this is my first comment on your channel although I've followed you for some time now. The thing that I like about you and your attitude to your cars mostly is that you, like myself, understand the importance of keeping things as original as possible. I own a very similar jaguar to one of yours, I have a 1974 XJ6L in BRG and a moss green interior. I've had it since 2000 (23 yrs) and I am only the 3rd owner. I even met its original owner about 10 years ago and he was then in his 90s. So glad I tracked him down. Like you I adore the series 2 XJs and to me they are the best of the three series. They are cleverly designed cars with many special details that only enthusiastic owners discover. I would love an XJC 12 cylinder like yours and maybe one day will be lucky enough, but if not I love my XJ6 anyway. I would say that even tho your coupe looks fairly rust free, dont be surprised if you find some filler covering corrosion on the bodywork. I say this because my first XJ, a1973 series 2 XJ6 short wheelbase that I bought in 1984 , was barely 11 years old at the time yet I discovered had a great deal of filler covering rusted areas! But not to bring you down, yours may well be fine (Like my current XJ) , I really look forward to following your journey of bringing the fabulous car back to life!

Well done!

Most excellent! Have you seen the video on removing rust from tanks using electrolysis by TJM The Jag Man?

You deserve it well done. Hopefully you'll be as sucessful as Mr Metcalfe and his XJC V12

Very nice, hard to find one with a good body well done.

Very nice car the best jaguar 😮😮😮

Very cool

Have a lovely Christmas 🎄

Always, always preferred the XJC, over the XJS, personally thought the XJS looked like a tank after the E-Type, but the XJC looked perfect, just plus, it being a V12, IMHO.

Merry Xmas Adam! What a find Sir! Such a rare car. So few of these carb version xj12c’s (not a xj5.3c) were made. Would you mind sharing the chassis number? It must be one of the first 37 LHD cars.

Don’t wait. Start now. 😊