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The XK70 Jaguar Festival
Celebrating the 70th anniversary of Jaguar’s XK cars and engines
When: Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th June
Where: Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb, Worcestershire
Of the many attractions at this June’s XK70 Jaguar Festival, the greatest of all will be the cars. Almost every imaginable kind of Jaguar will be at Shelsley Walsh on the weekend of 9/10 June, dazzling in static displays and roaring up the famous hillclimb course. Hard-tops and soft-tops, sports cars and saloon cars, race-winners and film stars - they’ll all be there, and in such great numbers that they’ll probably set a new Guinness World Record.
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E’s for ecstasy   
Not only XK-badged Jaguars will grace the XK70 Festival. So, too, will the many differing types of Jaguar with XK engines. Which means there will be plenty of E-types. Perhaps the most famous of these is the low-drag Lightweight model, ’49 FXN’, which mixed at Le Mans with Shelby Daytona Coupes and Ferrari 250 GTOs. Another rare Lightweight to be seen at the Festival, ‘4 GXO’, is a living miracle - a period-authentic racer rebuilt from a wreck once thought beyond repair. Look out, too, for the Eagle Speedster driven by Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear and the Opalescent Dark Green Eagle GT driven by ‘Eggsy’ in the movie Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
 
It’s going to be racey  
Winning motor races in the 1950s, and particularly the Le Mans 24 Hours, established Jaguar’s name internationally. XK engines won Le Mans no fewer than five times. More racing successes thirty years later helped build the brand’s reputation all over again. Jaguar track cars were global stars, and the Festival will host C-types, D-types, the XJ220 driven to a class win at Le Mans in ’93, and three of Jaguar’s legendary Group C cars. Biggest of all these brutes is the 7-litre V12-propelled XJR-8 that won the 1987 World Sportscar Championship.
 
Hillclimb action
Unlike the children of generations past, it’s never been said that Jaguars “should be seen and not heard.” So you can treat your eyes and ears when many of the cars on show at the Festival also roar up Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb, the oldest motorsport venue in the world still using its original course.  The Festival will entertain with demonstration runs, cavalcades, and a competitive hillclimb.
 
Seductive saloons
The XK’s 70th anniversary is a time to remember some of the swiftest and most stylish saloon cars of their time. The Festival will feature some superb examples of the 2.4- and 3.4-litre Jaguar Mark 1, produced from ’55 to ’59, and the 2.4-, 3.4-, and 3.8-litre Mark 2, built from ’59 to ’67. Favourites are likely to be the British Racing Green Mk1 2.4 with rear wheel spats, which has covered merely 26,000 miles and is unchanged in any way from new, and the wholly-original Mk2 3.8 in opalescent Silver Blue with just 21,000 miles on the clock. We’re assured none of those miles were racked-up in the 3.8 Mk2’s famous role as a villain’s getaway car.
 
Setting a world record   
The Festival’s aim is to gather 700 XK-badged and XK-engined cars - including E-types - in the same place at the same time. If you own such a car, bringing it to Shelsley Walsh could help to set a new world record. 
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Jaguar XK Club
Hilltop Farm, Knighton on Teme, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, WR15 8LY, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1584 781588, Fax: +44 (0) 1584 781630
www.xkclub.com
info@xkclub.com

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