[John Elmgreen]

Wow! You guys are truly fantastic. Thank you so much for your interest and your replies. Let me tell you a little more what this is about: I live in Sydney, Australia, and in the 1980s, I wrote with Terry McGrath from Perth, Western Australia, a book called The Jaguar XK in Australia. We sold all 1000 copies within 12 months. It contained all the known histories of every XK we knew about in Australia, plus limited sections on NZ, Asia. For years, we have been asked to bring out a new edition. In the meantime, I started to collect information re XKs worldwide, and started the XK-Lovers email list. We then collected a lot of info re XKs in New Zealand, then South Africa, then we had to add South America so we could call the new book The Jaguar XK in the Southern Hemisphere. Our geography is bad, so all of Asia is included - India especially of course. Oh yes, plus the Middle East. The book is near finished, give it a few months, I have a fulltime office job. In fact, there will have to be 3 books (120, 140, 150). 120 is first of course. India has not been easy to obtain information about, until you guys came along! I will later post details of all the XKs sold new in India (I have been visiting the archives in Browns Lane now for more than 30 years) and see what we can match up with what. I will also post a few notes about the Jaguar distributors, which you may be able to help me on. - John