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1960 Jaguar Mk.II 2.4

1960 Jaguar Mk.II in JAG, TV Series, 1995-2005 IMDB Ep. 2.06

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: UK

1960 Jaguar Mk.II 2.4

[*][*][*] Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

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johnfromstaffs EN

2021-01-07 23:13

Mk2 2.4 litre I think.

dsl SX

2021-01-07 23:21

I suppose they had to have one somewhere in this series. Rear here with cheap'n'nasty wheel covers. 2.4 was never sold in US, so a shabby import. Fog light aligned to spot incoming parachutists.

zodiac SE

2021-01-08 21:29

I'm curious to learn some more. How it is possible to tell a 2.4 from a 3.4 or a 3.8, or is it a 2.4 by default?

johnfromstaffs EN

2021-01-08 22:20

You can overtake a 2.4 in a Rover 90, you can’t catch a 3.4 in a Rover 110, and a 3.8 is usually upside down when you drive your Rover 60 past it.


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johnfromstaffs EN

2021-01-08 22:36

Wheels, shape of rear spats or wings, badging, and 2.4 generally plainer. dsl does these normally.

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dsl SX

2021-01-08 23:54

There's a variety of clues, not all of which are consistently applicable, and some rely on knowing what was sold where. US for instance only took a few 3.4 in 1960, then everything else was 3.8, never any 2.4. Italy for tax reasons missed out the 3.4 and didn't really bother with 2.4, so almost always 3.8. France, Germany and so on usually took the 3.8 as the preferred glamour model.

If it has horn grilles instead of inner lights, it's a 2.4 (or a 3.4/3.8 with air con, which is rare option and usually US and hot countries only). However inner lights were option on 2.4, so some 2.4 are indistinguishable from other versions. 3.4/3.8 inner lights looked proper fittings, not bodge-ups like this one.

3.8 almost always had wires, wider wheels, wider spat openings, lipped arches and twin-bore exhausts. 2.4 usually had body colour steel wheels, which looked cheap, so (as this one) there were lots of cheap accessory covers available to stop it looking so poverty. 3.4 had grey steels with trim rings so looked reasonably respectable, but wires was a common option. Not many folk would option up a 2.4 as if you could afford to add bits, you might as well get a 3.4 instead.

3.4 and 3.8 had extra boot badges for engine size, 2.4 only said Mk2. Grille badges were different colours (outer and inner zones according to engine size) but often difficult to spot and confused by the gold Jag head in centre, but the system was:
- 2.4 - black outer, red centre (also shared with Mk1)
- 3.4 - red outer, dark red centre (also shared with Mk1 and S-Type)
- 3.8 - dark red outer, silver centre (also shared with S-Type)

So lots of clues, but often impressions/hunches rather than consistently provable. Both jfs and I are on the same page with this one, so it all works some of the time.

zodiac SE

2021-01-11 14:11

Thanks, both of you!

What originally raised my question was this /vehicle.php?id=1453757 where alias Turbomeca just picked a model, and was believed. As he on several earlier occasions has randomly picked one out of a bunch without motivation, it has made me somewhat suspicious of him/her. I'm glad he got it right that time!

As this forum is used by many interested in cars, also motor magazines, and is thus not rarely printed (as a reliable source!), one has to be careful before one has a definitive answer.

Why not always motivate why a capture is supposed to be a particular model and not any else?

johnfromstaffs EN

2021-01-11 16:00

Thank you for your response.

I would offer the suggestion that there is enough knowledge, or knowledge of where to find the knowledge, within certain members of this group to allow a bit of confidence to accrue.

There are also some respondents who could not reliably distinguish a car from a saucepan, but you can soon find out who they are, and they generally don’t stay long.

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