Sheffield classic car collector auctions 1976 Jaguar to raise money for Ukraine appeal

Roy Hatfield, aged 85, feels so moved by the plight of Ukrainian youngsters he’s resolved to auction his 1976 Jaguar XJ-C 4.2 to raise cash for the beleaguered country’s youngest citizens.

All the dollars lifted will go to the Ukraine Humanitarian Attractiveness.

He states having lived in Sheffield by means of WW2 as a little one himself, he nicely understands the trauma Ukrainian kids are suffering from.

The prized Jaguar will be offered at the following H&H Classics sale at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, on June 22.

A top condition design of the motor vehicle was sold in March 2022 for £18,700.

Roy, born and bred in Sheffield, produced a vastly productive energy and recycling business enterprise that bears his name perfectly prior to the term recycling was a frequently recognized notion. The enterprise was awarded the Queens Award to Marketplace in 2014.

His auto assortment above the a long time has provided Bentleys, Healeys, Lagondas and E-Form Jaguars, with the Jaguar XJ-C staying a person he is really fond of.

Roy states he was determined to promote his motor vehicle for Ukraine by his memories of going to school with fuel masks and acquiring to use air raid shelters in Sheffield during WW2, which saw the centre of the city decimated.

He says: “I am extremely frustrated by what I am seeing on Television. We seem to be to have figured out practically nothing about the horrors of war. So I hope that in some compact way the sale of this automobile will do some excellent in the Ukraine, and the particular person who purchases the motor vehicle will get as significantly pleasure out of it as I have these past four years.”

The auto is one of only 2,606 Jaguar XJ-C 4.2s made to proper-hand push specification, with a pillarless coupe layout and a gloss black paintwork offset by Rich Purple leather-based upholstery.

A keen rally and race driver over the yrs, Roy has raced a Jaguar E-Type Light-weight and Healeys in the British isles and Europe and taken component in rallies in Asia, Africa, Vietnam, Cambodia and Jordan, as nicely as competing 11 times in The Basic Marathon and travelling by way of South Africa 2 times in a 1929 Bentley.