Good to see them being used/displayed and actually having an MOT

Neil seems like a good chap to be looking after this kind of stuff, too many men of a certain generation wrap these up in cotton wool and forget the best way to preserve them is to use them and maintain them well. I was there early this year and found that even the staff in both museums like to engage and are knowledgable and friendly about all the cars on display, well worth the drive up from this ‘ere London.

I was lucky enough to work for Jaguar and then JLR on and off from 2001 until 2020. I am so proud to be part of the company’s story during that time. I worked at Whitley, Castle Browmich, Browns Lane, Gaydon as well as the Landrover site at Solihull. They made some magnificent cars in the past. I myself own a 2005 X type estate (which some regard as not their finest hour but it’s a Jag and its mine!) I have a few bits of memorabilia from my time there such as a booklet with CD rom of the RD-6 Project. I worked on the S Type (X204&X206), XJ (X350 & X351) XK (X103 and X150) and then during my second stint the XE, XF, F Pace, F-Type, Range Rover Velar and many other models. It was an exciting time to be part of the team that took the Jaguar name forwards. I also enjoyed reading and learning about the past too whilst there. One amazing memory was a line of D type’s C Types and other models lining up to fuel up ready to go down to the Le Mans classic around say 2005. The sound when they all fired up put goosebumps down my spine. I need to visit the British Motor Museum again at some point. I was luck enough to work at Gaydon for a short while before leaving and having that amazing place to visit in my lunch hour was amazing……thanks again Ian for sharing a great video

It's always worth having a look around the JDHT floor in the Collections Centre, but I especially like the workshop, which can be viewed from the balcony upstairs.

In my view Ford coming in improved reliability and finish to Jaguar - I own an early xk8 (96) and most of it is original and still works! I like the fact that some components are still available. Many thanks for the video and I will be visiting soon

Jaguar are such an integral part of UK motor history, good to see these cars being preserved and displayed

What an interesting Hubnut episode. Certainly interesting collection of Jaguar Prototypes. I didn't know that any prototype cars were kept, I assumed that they would have been destroyed.

Oh my, the Broadspeed Jag

Brilliant Ian and Neil, a fantastic snapshot of the various parts of the Jaguar history. It's great to see not only prototypes but some production examples as well. Top job guys and thanks for sharing.

I love seeing the prototype and mule vehicles. My favourites at the British Motor museum are the Land Rover Freelander test mule Maestro van and the BL safety cars.

Nothing quite like driving a vehicle that's covered in matte black paint and shape-disguising cladding. It managed to keep the AU's shape disguised, but stood out wherever it went!

I used to work on pre-production mules for Jaguar back in my work on diagnostic and production systems. Brings back memories of the early 2000's.

Hope you and Miss Hubnut are having a great weekend 😊👍

Great to see them running, thanks Ian @HubNut. Lovingly cared for too!

My list of which museums I still want to visit is getting longer and longer. Thanks Ian.

"The history of the future" Nice!

A great video and a great museum . I really must go there again soon , especially where the Jaguar experimental cars are which I visited briefly before and deserves a much longer look around . It’s a sad though that Jaguar seems to have lost its way a bit recently .

ahh the XJ220, I worked in a foundry in 1990/1991 where we cast the aluminium cylinder blocks, heads, inlet manifolds and plenum chambers for those. To get the sand out of the water jackets the castings had drain holes which were welded up later, the manifolds had 2 caps welded on after the sand was removed. As a 19 year old BS qualified TIG welder it was my job to weld up the holes and the manifold caps on, then hide the welds and you wouldn't think that that would happen on a 200mph car

Live only a couple of miles away, and have spent many happy hours looking at the collection, that Broadspeed XJC is the coolest jag in existence 😎 period.

I was there yesterday and although I had a look it was a bit rushed as it was the Metro and Mini Show, now that was a HubNut day.

I must have just missed you as I got to the museum just as the XJR9 was being loaded onto the truck for Le Mans and recorded the XJR5 revving up as I was leaving! It's an amazing collection.

Absaloutly fantastic video Ian ❤👍 what a beautiful collection of jags absaloutly amazing brilliant

I like the different Leapers on the windows.

Bravo Ian, so glad you popped back into my Home Screen, just not had time to visit your Channel lately.

It’s unusual for mules to survive. Nice to see.

If I’m correct, there was one of those four-cylinder XK engines on display at the York Motor Museum in Western Australia at one point. Just remember seeing it on a visit there some years ago. Would be really good to see all those cars in a walkaround of that facility. Some I’ve seen in that collection when I visited the UK, but there’s a lot there I’d like to see too.

It may be of interest. I was a contractor working at Fords research centre in Dunton when it was just completed Talking to the technicians, I was told that the Mark one Escort was road tested for 1000's of miles using an adapted Mark one Cortina body 😀

I used to drive XJ40 mules like that in Australia for JRA.

Thanks for this, very interesting input from Neil I really must take a trip there being a big Jag fan and so sad to see the way they are headed.

The jag Daimler bit is always my favourite when I visit. A credit to all the ladies and gents who run it

I was at TWR in 1985 building the XJR-6 engine

Super interesting- I could spend all day there ! 👍

7:47 I worked at Jaguar Cars as a development engineer back in the '90s and 2000's. I also spoke to some engineers that had been working on the XJ42 (maroon convertible) and they had also said that it wasn't Ford that cancelled the car. They said that it had become too heavy, too thirsty and too laggy (it was a turboed AJ16 engine.)

That would be a bucket list place to visit I think Ian If I can manage to get back on a plane for 20 something hours 👍👍

Amazing place well worth a visit. Went last year and had a lovely time.Thankyou

Groovey baby austin hubnut 🤓👍

another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍

That was fascinating about the concept cars. Great stuff.

Your just making me anticipate my visit there on Friday even more 😀 Just as well I'll be in my Jaguar.

I saw a few Camo lrs in cov when I worked in the city centre.

Nice chap, best job ever. Nice too that he complimented the chap before him.

Absolutely brilliant. Really loking forward to future tests as well the ones you have already filmed. 😊👍👍

Excellent, thankyou Ian.

Lovely video. Thanks.

Great chat 👍 fantastic to see their cars are not just static .

Absolutely brilliant video...really enjoyed it

Jaguar E-Coupe Concept! Wow! I have a picture of it displayed at the Bromley Pageant of Motoring. Really beautiful looking car, inside and out.

Really interesting interview, thanks.

XJC would be my "I won the Lotto" daily 😎 they really are the dogs bollards 😎

That XK8 mule is absolutely fascinating. Thanks for sharing 😊

Great little Video Ian, defo a place I need to visit one day, some lovely looking jags in there.

That place is a car nerds dream! Thanks so much for the video Ian.🎉

Thanks for taking us with ya 😉👌

Love the collections centre, but upstairs for me is where my interest lies, the Land Rover, Rovers etc. Not a Jag can thou do appreciate some.

I do love this place. Clearly in good hands.

Love the XJ tail light on the XJR-5

What a fascinating video!

Great collection.

Brilliant video 👍🏻👍🏻

Great video, remember the XK8 mule when Autocar did a special magazine at the launch. How good does the XJ41 F-Type look still, shame they didn't find a way to produce it in the 80s even as a 2wd to bridge the gap between XJ-S and XK8, another British motor industry what if...

A great video once again on the channel well done 👍👍

I saw the Broadspeed at Huggys Speedshop yesterday - what a machine!

I remember What Car? magazine having a brief news piece about the new F-Type (1989?). I was looking forward to that one. Never realised that it became an Aston Martin.

Wonderful 😊

Lovely video Ian. Let's see some more of you driving them

A thoroughly enjoyable and very interesting video. Jaguar is my favourite manufacturer so I'm definitely going to have to pay a visit at some point in the near future

The two concepts at the 10:00 Mark, I remember them from an issue of Autocar, I seem to recall they had really interesting interiors. Not the typical wood & leather but more trendy wine bar vibes complete with changeable mood lighting that you now see in many German brands.

Wasn't expecting to see a Lanchester at the start of a Jaguar video, and a very rare drophead to boot.

Impressive 👍

A couple of kids in a toy shop. Great video as always.

That beautiful chrome finish X350 - wow. And the convertible Daimler concept that David Marks actually made into a working car. Some absolute car-porn there for the Jaguar enthusiast.

jag heaven

I was there in February it's a great place the convertible xj6 should of been built its such a pretty looking car

Jaguar should definitely have put the RD6 into production.

The red 4x4 coupé, reminds me of the Ford Probe. Perhaps there was some recycling within the Ford group?

AY UP MR HUBNUT

I'm going to guess that they get many applications from people offering to just drive these around, under the guise of keeping them alive, but really just to look flashy in a classic Jag or SS... :P

Excellent video but be careful if you have BPPV as camera movements can trigger it.

Talking about those swirly camo'ed test cars: I see Land Rover ones relatively frequently where I live in Birmingham. A few short years ago I saw one that had crashed into a row of parked cars on a relatively straight part of road between Cotteridge and Harborne. Sadly no chance to stop and take pictures.

Very interesting inded, Ian. Love seeing the older models that are either non-existent over rare as hens' teeth over here. Unfortunately rust destroyed the msjority of them.

17:40 surely all of those old cars are MOT exempt!

The XK8 has only, a few years ago been through the similar phase that the E Type went through at one point. Being cheap and unfashionable. Browsing classified prices over a period of time, so many seemed barely over £1000. Only recently do they seem to have shaken that off.

Surprising Jaguar never considered using the 4-cylinder XK in their canned XJ Junior project (also known as 3-litre XJ GT, Small Car and Baby XJ), which would have meshed well with plans for a short-stroke 2.6-3.0-litre XK6 capable of putting out up to 185 hp (or 123 hp as hypothetical 2-litre XK4 - competitive with 2.0 Alfa Twin-Cam) before that devolved into the 2.8 XK6. Instead Jaguar opted for either using an exotic Coventry Climax CFF/CFA V8, old 2.5 Daimler V8, 3-litre XK6 or a V12-based V8 engines until the creation of BL undermined the rationale to compete against Rover and Triumph's saloons.

The best looking XF by far IMO was the Sportbrake estate.

I heard from someone that used to work at the museum that Jaguar have some very very rare cars in that collection that only a select few are allowed to drive? I assume you also went upstairs where there's a lot of Austin/Rover/BL stuff? I've not been in the CC for a while, is there some Vauxhall stuff up there too now? I look after the revolving door at the Museum, so I have to go there every 6 months or so, and often have a quick look around while I'm there. I also go to quite a few JLR sites and see a lot of stuff that I'm not allowed to take pictures of.

Interesting surviving XK8 heavy masked up prototype Ian

Interesting video as usual. We had a guided tour of the Jaguar museum a few years back by an ex - Jaguar worker. He made my 10 year old sons day by letting him sit in the green XKR from Die Another Day. Is it still there? Well worth a visit.

That was a mighty strange looking car Ian

Interesting vid ta - been to the Gaydon museum many times and it's great. The JDHT collection is excellent too, although I still feel sad that the old Browns Lane site is no more. I think Ford should get credit for investing in Jaguar - they may not have survived otherwise, especially if GM had bought the company. Just hope Jaguar (and Land Rover) can get through the EV transition. I fear for the marque's future.

That was really interesting - always good content when you are doing a walk around with a industry person. Did Jaguar do hot weather testing in Australia ? And, was the green and white Jaguar XJS, behind both of you at the end: TWR Racing - Tom Walkinshaw Racing - " the Scott ", from the year they won Bathurst ?

ooh, Lanchester drophead!

Wait. Did Ian actually NOT note the massive single front wiper at 9:30 !?!? How is that even possible? :).

Have they got xjs daimler there?

So to help protect the collection from accidental damage, why not display less vehicles at any one time and have more room around the exhibits. I found the vehicles crammed together on the upper floor made it very difficult to look at the vehicles properly and hard to photograph!

I've always wondered how some of these museums pay their way. There must be quite a bit of expense involved in keeping a lot of these MOT'd

Do Ian and Neil share the same hairdresser 🤔

a meeting of the beards

Why does a pre-war car need an MOT? The list of allowances and exclusions would render it not worth the paper or electrons

Ohh nice video. But advertising in the middle of the videos? Really?

Why do they bother to disguise cars? It's often easy enough to understand the overall looks even with the camouflage. And are they afraid other companies will copy it?