With a reported conversion cost new of more than £55,000, the Lynx Eventer was an unapologetically expensive proposition new. Each car was hand-built strictly to order on a custom-made jig taking 14 weeks from order to delivery. With just 67 cars produced by Lynx, this is an extremely rare estate car version of the Jaguar XJS 5.3 HE V12.
The rearward shift in weight distribution required stiffer rear suspension, but the XJS accepted this modification gracefully. The Eventer weighed less than the standard XJS - so acceleration was sharper. Here was a small home-grown engineering company with the vision and the skills to create a car, under license by Jaguar that drove like the product of a multi-million pound R&D program, matched by a level of finish and detail to rival the best.
This extremely important 1982 Lynx Eventer was no less than the first-ever Lynx Eventer to be sold, and can be seen in the photographs, proudly bears the conversion No."002" (001 being the prototype). With its registration number of 1 HOP, it is the actual silver car depicted in the Lynx factory brochures and magazines. Of course, the importance of this car cannot be understated in the history of the Lynx Eventer. Copies of the original brochure and much in the way of magazine articles which, over the years, the Lynx featured in are included in the extensive paperwork that comes with this car giving the new owner not only the first Lynx to be sold but concise and complete history of the Lynx Eventer model as well.
