In I'm sure what was an odd request to the Jaguar-Daimler Heritage Trust, I ordered a JDHT certificate for 426288, just as a bit of a keepsake since she's been so loyal to me throughout the past 15,000 miles. I found out that her birthday was April 26th, 1985 (Krista's is April 29th, so this will be easy to remember) and she was dispatched to the US just four days later and eventually made her way from the customs docks out east to Bob Williams Ford right here in Cincinnati. Williams was also the Jaguar/Rolls Royce/Bentley agent here in town for years and years and I recall driving past their showroom as a youngster and seeing beautiful, brand new XJs (both 6's and S's) as well as Corniches and Mulsannes under massive chandeliers in their showroom. Today, the dealership is no more, but Bob Williams' daughter owns it and runs a used car business out of there. I bet those chandeliers which still hang in there to this day never thought they'd be reflecting their light off of Chevy Aveos and GMC Jimmys.....oh, how the mighty have fallen.
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