On scent of old Jaguar mystery

Bill Cockram with his XK150 Jaguar. Photo / Herald on Sunday

Bill Cockram is on a motoring mission from hell.

He is looking for two Jaguar XK120 cars, and the only clues he has is that one was involved in a crash with a train in the mid-1960s, and the engine of the other is in England.

Cockram, a retired TV journalist and car enthusiast, read a book that listed what happened to all the Jaguar XK cars that were sold as new in New Zealand and Australia. Of the 65 sold here, each one was listed successfully, except two of the three XK120 dropheads.

It sent him on a path to find them so he could alert the authors to what happened.

Cockram recently received a tip from a man who remembered being on a train that collided with a Jaguar sports car in the mid-1960s in Papakura.

* Anyone with information should call Cockram on (03) 312 6866