All owners from the first registration are known and recorded in the certificate of registration (ownership history) number 114372 which is present in the history file. These records were tracked by the New Zealand post office and later by the Transport Registry Centre. The records include all private persons and car dealers who have been the legal owner of the automobile at a specified moment in time.

July 15, 1952
The Jaguar XK 120 Abbot four-seater DHC was registered by Mr. Mitchell in Auckland, New Zealand. The automobile was given registration plate BL 7014.

May 10, 1954 (Mileage: not recorded)
Mr. Mitchell sold the car to Mr. Harold Stone, Nikau Street, Rotorua, NZ.

April 5, 1960 (Mileage: not recorded)
Mr. Stone sold the car to the firm of Wright Stephenson & Co Ltd, Hinemoa Street, Rotorua, NZ.

August 16, 1960 (Mileage: not recorded)
The XK 120 was sold to the firm of Branch Car Sales Ltd, Otahuhu, NZ

August 24, 1960 (Mileage: not recorded)
New owner Mrs. Tui Gwynne East, Clive Road, Green Bay, NZ.

May 12, 1965 (Mileage: 65.740)
Sold to the firm of Ibbotson Bros. Ltd., King Street, New Plymouth, NZ.

May 12, 1965 (Mileage: 65.740)
New owner Mr. Brian Babbington, Bayly Road, Okato, NZ.

May 30, 1965 (Mileage: 66.747)
Sold to the firm of Palm Court Motors Ltd., Great North Road, Grey Lynn, NZ

June 14, 1965 (Mileage: 66.792)
New owner Mr. Howard Phillips, Sixteenth Avenue, Tauranga, NZ.

December 23, 1965 (Mileage: 69.486)
Sold to the firm of Lake Motors, Lake Road, Rotorua, NZ.

December 23, 1965 (Mileage: 69.486)
New owner Mr. Jack Harris, Melrose Avenue, Rotorua, NZ.

March 15, 1966 (Mileage: 72.490)
The car is registered by the name of Mrs. Constance Jenny Harris (Perhaps the wife or daughter of Mr. Harris?), Melrose Avenue, Rotorua, NZ.

April 3, 1967 (Mileage: 73.900)
New owner Mr. Peter Brian Thomas, P.O. Box 127, Turangi, NZ.

July 18, 1967 (Mileage: 78.175)
New owner Mr. Donald Allen Comrie, Hastings Road, Havelock North, NZ.

June 28, 1968 (Mileage: 78350)
New owner Mr. Dennis Noell Clarke, Gow Avenue, Haumoana, Hastings, NZ

March 6, 1969 (Mileage: 82323)
New owner Mr. James Ross Treadwell, Heretaunga Street, Hastings, NZ

April 14, 1969 (Mileage: 83657)
Sold to the firm of Grover Car Sales, Dominion Road, Auckland, NZ

June 9, 1969 (Mileage 83685)
New owner Mr. Ronald Harry Williams, Aldersgate Road, Auckland, NZ.

June 23, 1971 (Mileage: 86406)
New owner Mr. Donald Allan Webster, Mount Eden, NZ.

November 24, 1971 (Mileage: 90296)
New owner Mr. Alistair William Grundy, Tropicana Drive, Mount Roskill, NZ

July 3, 1972 (Mileage: 90500)
New owner Mr. William Windle, Whangarei, NZ.

October 6, 1975 (Mileage: 00032)
New owner Mr. John Purre, Remuera Road, Remuera, NZ.

March 5, 1976 (Mileage: 04032)
New owner Mr. Ian Renton Tailby, South Road, Kaitaia, NZ.

August 25, 1981 (Mileage: 03917 – did the former owner fuzz with the odometer?)
New owner Mr. Michael John Jacobsen, Sentinel Road, Herne Bay, NZ

June 30, 1982 (Mileage: 05357)
New owner Chamberlain Family Trust, Hadstock Road, Christchurch. NZ
The Jaguar XK 120 four-seater by Abbot was stored in a barn after blowing a head gasket on the way from Christchurch to Queenstown on the South Island. The owner planned to restore the car but then changed his mind. The car spend twenty years in the barn, partly dismantled and stripped of paint.

May 8, 2002 (Mileage: 05357)
New owner the firm of Upper Classics, Christchurch, NZ
A staff member of the local restoration company informed his boss about the car. After a look in the barn they sensed to have stumbled upon something very special. After a period of study and fitting pieces together they found the car to be fully complete. An extensive restoration started in the year 2002 (see chapter ‘restoration’).

February 16, 2004
The Jaguar XK 120 Abbot four-seater DHC was officially sold to a collector from Belgium.

2005
The restoration company was invited to present the Jaguar XK 120 Abbot four-seater DHC
on the Pebble Beach concours d’elegance. Regretfully the car was not yet finished.

Early February, 2006
The 'Abbott' was brand new restored. The automobile was tested and the last mechanical adjustments have been carried out.

February 18, 2006
The very special Jaguar made it to the national news on Television New Zealand, a videotape of this event is present.

February 19, 2006
The Jaguar was shipped heading for the port of Rotterdam (NL) where it arrived on March 23, 2006.

April 6-9, 2006
The perfectly restored automobile was on show at the Essen Techno Classica.

During 2006 and 2007 the Jaguar XK 120 Abbot four-seater DHC was mentioned in a variety of classic car magazines. Octane wrote a special about the car in issue 47 of May 2007.

April 2007
The Abbott was on show at the Essen Techno Classica. The Abbott won the first prize as best restored automobile of the show!

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