We went up to Canberra to visit my parents and sister, and to belatedly celebrate my mum's 60th birthday.
On Sunday we went to Gundaroo, a village about half an hour out of town, for lunch and dad drove his recently acquired 1966 Jaguar S-type. It's a 3.8 litre manual/overdrive and after teasing us on the outskirts of Canberra by cruising along at 90km/h, he gave us a very convincing demonstration of its quite awesome acceleration by shifting down to third on his way out of one of the many roundabouts and flooring it ... we caught up eventually!
It's a very solid-looking car: completely restored interior in red leather with new carpets and polished wood; engine probably reconditioned; and decent paintwork and body. Being a very canny bargainer, dad bought it for, oh, not much more than the cost of the retrim and engine work, so he got the rest of the car 'free'!
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