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01/02/03 Hans-Peter Bruggeman (left) owns the unique V12 Vanden Plas XJ-C LHD chassis #2. He lives in northern Germany and sent us this photo of him with the owner of V12 LHD XJ-C #1.
The car is now in Denmark, but as seen in 02, it was in Australia from 1977 and spent most of those years in Perth.
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Remarkably, the first three V12 LHD XJ-Cs survive, and the well-documented 'Pink Panther' is chassis #3. It too came to Australia in 1977 privately owned. It was owned by our editor for over ten years before being sold to Tery Hurst who completed the restoration before selling it to an XJ-C collector in the UK. It was recently debuted at a classic car show there and is being finished to pristine original condition. 04 The ex-works C-Type XKC037 was brought to Australia by Dr John Boorman of Cessnock, north of Sydney. He crashed it heavily twice, after which it was bought and repaired by Frank Gardner. This was its debut at Bathurst in 1957.
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