We bought C204 BKE in July 2025 from a dealer on the south coast. She is a 1985 XJSC 3.6 manual. The manual spec was a must for me. We hadn’t seen the car in the flesh but plenty of photos and reassurances from the dealer. And the car had a recent MOT with no advisories, so we took the plunge.

What arrived was not quite what was described. Umpteen things did not work or needed attention/replacing. God knows why somebody took the risk of giving this car a clean MOT.

After several months of fettling and fitting new parts, we got the car ready for its impending trip to the Outer Hebrides to join our friends