“I’ve had the blood transfusion,” says Christian Sharland from Jaguar Heritage. “The red was taken out and replaced with Jaguar green.” Browns Lane made him, he proudly tells us, giving him a career for three decades. Even in retirement, he can’t be without Jaguar. That’s why Christian is sitting alongside GRR as we carefully steer Sir William Lyons’ old 1968 Series I XJ in the summer heatwave.
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