Where do all the handbooks go?

[ChrisXKR]

Hi fellow XK'ers.

After a few years dalliance with a stern German temptress (I know, I know - I'm very ashamed) I recently came to my senses and returned to the fold with a sensuous, curvy 2003 4.2 XKR.

I am absolutely delighted with her but her handbook has disappeared.

My attempts to find one on-line seem to have revealed that:
1) There are a heck of a lot of old Jags out there (all models) missing their handbooks
2) Wherever they have gone, they certainly don't seem available to buy

I have this picture in my head of some old chap in a threadbare brown warehouseman's coat sitting in a smokey shed somewhere near Coventry with thousands of well-thumbed Jaguar owners manuals piled up around him but - just in case he doesn't really exist - does anyone have any idea where one might be obtained?

[steve_m]

They are all in Warehouse 13, along with the spare keys and all the history and bills.

[DaveNeedham]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Jaguar-XK-Car- ... n_78187702

[steve_m]

£1500 for an XK140 manual.
I'm definitely in the wrong job.

[mike020150]

The club provides a very useful source of handbooks and memorabilia via Andrew Swift (contact details in the front of every Jaguar Enthusiast magazine). Mike.