InstacarHK Christmas Special & Season Finale - "The Job" - Feat. 1968 Jaguar 420G
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- 2021 has been a pretty good year for InstacarHK and it flew by just like that! To celebrate this year we have put together this Christmas special/season finale episode which is rather different from our usual format, with a special twist in the end, see for yourself!
Featuring in this video is a beautiful 1968 Jaguar 420G. It started off life as the Mark X (pronounced "Mark Ten") in 1961 with Jaguar determined to use it to compete with Rolls Royce/Bentley and to enter the US market with. Unfortunately, it practically failed both these goals but instead became notoriously popular with London gangsters! Enjoy!
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Mk 10 and the 420 G .completely underrated. Fabulous motor car. 👌
looks absolutely gorgeous in black and with those wire wheels
Had one but I guess I never really put it through the motions of what it really could do Mainly because I was young and had to watch my money when it came to petrol for it Starting it up was a treat watching the front rock from the power of the engine turning over I loved that car and have been a Jaguar fan since..
In my opinion, one of the most underrated cars ever made
Loved the last bit . These are great cars. I had two.
My father had a two-tone blue 420G in the early 70's. Drove it a little after I passed my test. As a teenager I loved sitting in the back using the picnic tables. 😊
GREAT to see. I have one. 1970, 4.2 in burgundy. My pride and joy.
You're really getting immersed into your role. Loved this!
Thank you! Something different this time!
looks really badass! Built for gangsters 😀
Yep the Krays
Gangsters always loved Jags, but they preferred the Mark 2's as their getaway cars, as nothing could keep up with them. The 420G was more of a statesman's vehicle, even royalty were often seen in these 420Gs. The Mark X was a bit too heavy for the engine it had, so using them as a getaway car wasn't a great choice. The UK police had Mark 2s and later XJ6s, so trying to escape in the big & heavy 420G would've put you at a disadvantage (although unbeatable when it comes to style).
got two of these. 69ers chassis numbers 54 cars apart. about to put in $70,000, to one of them........ they are worth it. All love from western Australia.
Nobody quite designed cars as Jaguar did! All such beautiful cars!
That STARter button is the star, what a production. You deserve more view appreciation. Were you on the Peak, it's like a private track.
Wait the German !!!!! .....Cracked me up.... 😂😂😂😂.....Great Video
Thank you! :D
Loving the HK scenery in your videos
Thank you!
Like x 1000! 正呀!
Professional and love it! Love the scene at the beginning, specially from black/white turn to color, and the background music, for sure love this movie concept, I'm so enjoy and happy, and laugh loudly! Great ending scene! I love the sense of humor of your team, I remember I've seen "the hand" in classic cars show central! Hahaha! Great job! Thank you!
Thanks Zoe, as always, for your support!
car looks fucking incredible- looks so evil and badass, though it also seems like the kinda car u need to have a full time mechanic available for
I once spoke to a former RollsRoyce/Bentley/Jag mechanic who had a whole farmhouse emptied out and filled with old Jags (and a few old Land Rovers). He told me if you keep these cars well maintained, they can be quite reliable. But Jags are not cars that will put up with delayed repairs - if you don't give these beauties the care they deserve, they will turn into rabid alley cats that will devour your bank account for revenge. If you get a bad example though, you should indeed hire a mechanic full time (and have him follow you everywhere) ;)
Are you threatening me?
Very nice and creative ending! 😃🤣
Looking forward to more videos from the team! 😃👍
Thank you!
Waaah! Such a sexy Shaguar!
What a lovely thing. Super cool. This one certainly was sinister, it kept changing it's registration from scene to scene. Also, tachometer only seemed to work at 5.22. Still, you could forgive it anything! Great video.
Thanks mate - the registration changed because some of the footage including the shooting scene was shot when the car first arrived in Hong Kong still with its UK plates.
@@instacarhk5963 😉👍
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! very entertaining video!!!! I havent seen such sense of humour from your video before! Its cool and refreshing!
Thanks Alvene!
I bought a non running Ivory coloured exterior, blue leather interior, 420G some years ago. After an engine rebuild and a general exterior and interior refurbishment, the car gave me 6 years of comfortable motoring before I sold it to a Wedding Car Hire Service. I could seat my 4 young children comfortably on the back seat. The only real issue I had was locating new front brake pads. Being such a heavy car, it chewed up the quite small front brake pads very quickly. Parts for a nearly 30 year old classic Jaguar are not commonly stocked at your local Auto parts shop after all. I finally found a brake specialist who solved the problem by putting new pad material onto the old metal brake pad backing plates. Provided the plates were not cracked, that process could be repeated many times over. What was also amusing was the style of English used in the owners manual. It could have been written in Victorian times.
Thanks that's pretty cool user experience info!
Just discovered this jag is parked 2 floors above my car today! Hope I will bump into the owner one day 😍
Yes it has changed hands since we filmed this. No idea where it lives now, good luck bumping into the owner!
Worth the joy, worth the subscription.
Haha! Now that's an ending I wasn't expecting. Great fun
beautiful car ! Could you use it to give the viewers a tour around the island and show the highlights ? It would give the car you're showing a purpose, and gives us people living far a way some nice environment as well. Thanks for the video !
The later versions of the MK10 got the 4.2L engine in 1965 before it became the 420G
Loved it !
Love this video, and the car , but the ending is over the top!
I saw one of these sadly rotting away in a scrap yard in Sheung Shui a couple of years ago. The guy wanted HK$20K for it and I was told it was a runner. It was probably beyond saving but perhaps the engine and gearbox might have been worth it alone. If only I had somewhere to store it and decide. Too late now and last time I drove past, it had disappeared along with a few other classics.
I think you dodged a bullet there lol
@@instacarhk5963 Yeah, lucky it was no longer there the next time I drove past!
Very nice video!!
Thanks FF!
Excellent! Does it come with the body in the boot🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, no one wants iti!
@@instacarhk5963 wot wot! have very sexy body laaa!
Great video. Magnificent Motor Car 👍
Good looking Jag...
Excellent review and a great looking example although I'd be a little concerned with that low oil pressure? The chrome wires look gorgeous!
Very nice video
Brilliant :(
2:40 Incorrect. It might have been favoured as personal transport but the getaway car of choice was always a Mk II or an s-type. More nimble. See Robbery(1967) or multiple episodes of the classic seventies Brit tv series The Sweeney.
The important thing is the 420 is the only car named after Marijuana.
great video of a gorgeous car. just bought one.
Thank you and congratulations!
thanks. pick it up next week.@@instacarhk5963
By comparison to its contemporaries it was a big car, but not in the days of SUV etc. I always thought it looked FAB. It was a shame Lyons wouldn't use the Turner V8 (4.5 Ltr) in it. The Americans had even bigger cars at the time and a V8 was their favourite engine of choice. It might have been a big hit in the US if he had, imagine a 32 valve 5 Ltr development instead a V12. I had a blue Corgi Mk10. I love the 007-esk music, funny it never appeared in a bond film.
A V8 would've been great in this car indeed!
The Krays never owned a MK10 or 420G, the film with the kemp brothers popularised this.
The steering is something you have to learn if you are driving in a spirited fashion of preloading it before the corner, give it fair warning and you can hustle it around like sweeney getaway driver
This model 420 or Mark V definite the image of Jaguar to HK people in the 1960s.
Quite right!
My farther had the 420G top cat
I own one of these now a 1967 model, when I was young in 1975 I had a 1965 model and when a child in 1961 my mum bought her first one, she bought her second one in 1971. When they were new they had 6PLY tyres. Now most owners put lower profile tyres than they should have AND that have 2 ply walls & 4 ply base (tread) instead of the correct 6 ply wall with 6 ply base. So Instacarhk , maybe the one you are driving has squishy under strength tyres fitted . Mine has 6 ply steel belted radials , additionally for export cars that were possibly going to use dirt/unsealed roads a heavier duty wheel rim could be fitted , mine has those as well . I see the example you are driving has wire wheels , Jaguar never fitted these to this car as they were deemed to have TOO MUCH FLEX so again no wonder you have squishy handling . Additionally Koni developed a special front and rear gas shock absorber set for this car that massively firms the ride/handling of these cars , mine has these as well . Outcome of heavier wheel rims , correct 6ply 75 profile tyres , Koni heavy duty gas shocks is the car handles BETTER than little sports cars with near zero body roll and NO tyre squish . If people just stuck with factory glove box manual specifications they would be a lot better off than "gilding the lily" , On my right side fuel flap is the factory tyre pressure warning tag , it says 38 lb front , 36 lb rear , if loaded (people/luggage) rears 40 lb so correct pressure also makes a huge difference. When correctly set up this car can be pushed hard into corners on a windy road with impunity and it grips like a leech in human flesh . These Jaguars are fantastic cars I bought my 10 year old 1965 model in 1975 with 52,000 miles on it , kept it 9 years and sold it with 275, 000miles on it they just did not show the car looked like it had 200,000 less on it in Ivory with Ox-blood leather (dark maroon) , my 1967 model that I own now is also Ivory with ox-blood leather some of my friends thought that I had stored my original one when I first bought and began using the '67 model a decade ago , at first glance it looks the same , on closer inspection it has the chrome strip down the side of the car , the central bar in the grill and a pair of padded sections on the top of the dash . There are of course some other minor differences , but you need to be a real Jaguar buff to know all of those. My mums 2 were black wit "biscuit" leather which is creamy white almost non dyed leather , and the 420G Opalescent Gun Metal Grey with ox-blood deep maroon leather both looked beautiful I loved them as a small kid , and later as a teenager and definitely wanted one to drive myself . My dad was into planes and had 2 small aircraft, he was shocked when as a 19 yr old I went and bought my own one , affordable only because it was Left Hand Drive.
Thanks for all the info - great points on the tyres and wheels, the ones on this one are indeed wrong!
I remember my father having one in a dark brownish gold
Is that ending gonna get you into trouble? LOL
Interesting ending….
Those big jags were wonderful cars. Looked fabulous, much nicer than any merc of the time and were great value. His review was a bit crass I have to say.
I own both a 1965 Jaguar MK 10 and a 1974 Mercedes 450SEL. The favorite is the Jaguar.
Wish I didnt sell mine 40 yrs ago😢
Thatcher's husband drove one.
Class B)
You said to be used as a show for per yet you never show a decent view of the backseat! That’s where I would sit, that’s what I was interested in.
Legend didn't use a Jag, Ford Lincoln.
Martin keep drove a goodwood green jaguar mk10 in one of the clips.
Key chain tag engraved its original UK license number?
Naw!
If your car was wobbly then you had a bad example
Perfect video. Amazing car!
Does this car is available for sale, can someone please assist if theirs is anyone in UK,Europe, for available for sale, thanks again if you can, or assist me with buying it reasonable.
lol is the rev counter broken
i spotted that too!!!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
5:38, what the heck? Wash those hands.
Amateur car review.
These cars did not have sloppy steering et cetera when they were new.
No cars did!
Maybe a worn out old one might have sloppy steering , but to not include context like that is poor form.
These cars were at the vanguard of vehicle handling in their day and a well maintained example doesn't roll and wallow or have loose steering.
The basic suspension platform continued until 1996 with Jaguar and beyond with Aston Martin DB7.
1 out of 5 from me for this review.
Is there really nobody, NOBODY, neither the makers nor the viewers, who wants to hear the sound of the cruising or/and chasing engine of an old 6-cylinder Jaguar ?? NOBODY ?? Lucky for you, we now live in a time of drowning music and blissfully buzzing EVs...!! 🤨 Where have the real car enthusiasts gone??