General Information
Name
3.5l Saloon
Year
1950
Make
Jaguar
Model
Mk5
Color
Black
My dad and his brother in law joined forces to buy this car with the plan to "do it up", but it never really happened. A four speed manual with a 3.5l straight six boasting 120bhp and every single bhp was needed to get all that steel moving to hit 60mph/100kmh in just over 20 seconds. They drove it around for quite a few years, and it was one of the first cars I learned to drive as a kid (still can remember the smell of leather and wood, not to mention the awful brakes and vague steering), but eventually they sold it to someone in a different state. Because the car was leaving Victoria, the number plates remained with us. Around the time they sold the Jag I had bought a non-running MGA. After I got that car into a roadworthy state, I registered it using the old plates.
The plates are physically the original ones from 1950 - not only because they have the "vertical vic" on the left hand side, but also because the surrounding trim is black. They are slightly smaller than the later released 5 digit plates as well that have a white trim.
