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Hi Michael, Having had company cars for 30 years I can understand your point of cars being for transport, which in part they are. Some cars have always been head turners, though, while fulfilling the basic needs. I am almost as old as the Jaguar marque, and have always admired them, although they always seemed to be out of the range of ordinary horny handed sons of toil such as myself. Nowadays, with the dreaded rusty bits being replaced with either galvanised steel or in some cases fibreglass, plastics, and latterly Aluminium, older Jaguars have become far more easy to obtain. I once had a four year old Austin A40 Farina and had to replace both sills and the rusty bits in the floor. I still have the pop rivet gun I used to attach the new sills and panels which I had made to measure for me from plastic coated steel [stelvetite] as I worked in the Steel Industry. That is why there are now well restored classic cars and, in my opinion, the S Type will follow the Jaguar MkI and MkII into the group of cars which can be described as genuine classics. And there were less than 300,000 made with only about a third of that number sold in the UK, Enjoy your car and driving a Jaguar does make driving a pleasure. Regards, Peter.