Former forklift engineer Tim Hannig had a crazy idea to build E-types in China. It didn’t happen, but it helped score him his dream job of Director of Jaguar Land Rover Classic
BALLOONS, CHECK. Banners, check. Food on sticks, check. And champagne. Lots of champagne. Tim Hannig is getting ready to throw one heck of a party. He’s still working on the exact date – March, maybe April – but the invites should be going out soon to a few hundred of his closest friends.
This is what the towering 37-year-old director of Jaguar Classic has been waiting for, the grand opening of Jaguar Land Rover Classic’s shiny new £7.5million works headquarters on the site of the old Chrysler factory in Ryton, just up the road from Coventry.
It will be home to Classic’s high-profile continuation business, building nine £1.5million XKSS roadsters (already sold). It’s where his rapidly expanding team of technicians and engineers will offer owners everything from servicing to full restorations. And it’s where he’ll run his fast-growing spare parts operation.
This story is from the March 2017 edition of Jaguar World Monthly.
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