Beautiful Mark VIII spotted in a film
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I was going through some old movies I had and was watching:
Our man in Havana - starring Sir Alec Guinness
spoiler alert:
Right near the end of the film you see the lead actors daughter hug this beauty after she gives up her love for horses and moves onto cars!
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IMCDb.org: 1957 Jaguar Mk.VIII in "Our Man in Havana, 1959"
Our man in Havana - starring Sir Alec Guinness
spoiler alert:
Right near the end of the film you see the lead actors daughter hug this beauty after she gives up her love for horses and moves onto cars!
![](http://www.imcdb.org/i207874.jpg)
IMCDb.org: 1957 Jaguar Mk.VIII in "Our Man in Havana, 1959"
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Very difficult !
Wikipedia tells you, but the visible changes are very subtle. It was the mechanical changes that were a significant advance on the Mark VIII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_Mark_IX
Wikipedia tells you, but the visible changes are very subtle. It was the mechanical changes that were a significant advance on the Mark VIII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_Mark_IX
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The referenced IMCDB.org page has a comment that asserts the car has a registration tag from Aug-Sept 1957, so that would pretty much guarantee it's a Mark VIII (unless the observer was wrong about the plate dating, or the car was actually a new Mark IX and they grabbed another vehicle's plates for filming). Either way, simply a gorgeous car; I need to go pet my Mark IX now.
We just started watching 'The Crown', and I have to say, I've got a near-constant chubby over the vehicles...
We just started watching 'The Crown', and I have to say, I've got a near-constant chubby over the vehicles...
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The referenced IMCDB.org page has a comment that asserts the car has a registration tag from Aug-Sept 1957, so that would pretty much guarantee it's a Mark VIII (unless the observer was wrong about the plate dating, or the car was actually a new Mark IX and they grabbed another vehicle's plates for filming). Either way, simply a gorgeous car; I need to go pet my Mark IX now.
We just started watching 'The Crown', and I have to say, I've got a near-constant chubby over the vehicles...
We just started watching 'The Crown', and I have to say, I've got a near-constant chubby over the vehicles...
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- The MkVIII & IX both have the one piece windscreen. Only the Mk VII has the split screen. I think the much earlier Mk IV &V are split.
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