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Hi Robin
The Lady Diana Cabriolet only ever had the hardtop fitted – never the folding hood. This I understand was for two safety reasons – risk around rear passengers being garotted on the T’Bar if not wearing seatbelts properly, and secondly the safetly of royals from attack.
I believe that Gerben Haringsma reconstructed the rear board when he was restoring his Cabriolet.
Laurence
Hi Vinny
Thank you for your comprehensive response, and for uploading some photos
I knew that there were a few bodyshops around the world who were undertaking to create bespoke XJ-S Convertibles, whilst the XJ-SC Cabriolet was still in production and for sale. I personally hadn’t heard of a Banham created XJ-S Convertibles – and it would be really good to learn how different they are from either the US Hess and Eisenhardt bespoke Convertibles (around the same date as yours) and the later Jaguar produced modelsGreat to have you and your car in the Club
Laurence
Hi Lionel
Are you doing all the work on your Cabriolet yourself ? Has it needed much welding ?
LaurenceHi John
These are great ‘studio’ photos of your XJS – can you tell us where you got them taken and a bit about it – please.
LaurenceHere’s my Cabriolet on show on the Greater Manchester JEC stand.
It was quite tiring being there for most of the 2 days, but lots of folks stopped by to talk about the car 🙂
LaurenceHi Martin Burgoyne
What a great location – where about in the Yorkshire Dales was that taken ?
Hi Michael Hampton
I have just been given a possible contact for undertaking the recovering work for your hood.
Autotrim Ivybridge Click Here
Please let us know if they prove to be of any assistance.
Cheers,
Laurence
Hi eddiepanton
There was only 1 Cabriolet factory fitted with rear seats – Lady Diana’s.
However, Jaguar dealers provided to their customers the option of having rear seats. These were carried out locally, utilising XJ-S Coupe seats.
You’ll see lots of different variations of rear seats, depending on what the dealers could obtain as much as anything. There will also be some that the owners of the car at some point in its life retro fitted rear seats.
Laurence
Thanks John, Very useful and interesting
Laurence
Hi Joshua Lyons
Do you mean this :
Yes it is an air deflector for when you have the Targa panel out and the rear hood down.
The XJ-SC Cabriolet were built by Jaguar – there’s a brief article Here about them.
Cheers,
Laurence
Nice to see an XJS in a modern advert – looks as good as any modern soft top sports car 🙂