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Finding my granddad’s car

Started 24th June 2026 at 17:08 · Alex Tuppen
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Hi,

I am wondering if this forum might be able to help me in my quest to buy back my Granddad’s car. I remember him driving me in it once, given it was an XJ-SC with a bench in the back I know that it must have been just us in the car, which was unusual and makes the car very special. More importantly he is where my love of engines comes from, he loved lorries, cars, and tractors, everyone else in my family likes sails and I often feel like the black sheep so I’d have loved to know him better. He also drove my parents away from their wedding in that car, there is a wonderful photo of them sitting on back with him in the front.

It is registration number C62 MEV, and it has been SORN’d since 2021 so I am worried that it might be rotting somewhere.

I have looked through all of the XJS photo albums looking for it to try and find the current owner without success. Does anyone have any tips of suggestions on how I could go about trying to find the current owner?

Thank you,

Alex

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      Laurence Jones
      Keymaster

      It last past an MOT in July 2020 and had a V5 change in 2021 (which may have been a sale or just an address change)

      Without the car’s VIN it isn’t possible for me to find where in the country it was last MOT’d

      Laurence

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