Spotlight on: David Marks Garages

Back in 2004, as the owner of a newly acquired Jaguar I read about David Marks, a Jaguar specialist based in Nottingham, who had been invited by the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust to rebuild a very important Mark 1 Jaguar (TOX1) and to re-engineer the Daimler Corsica, turning it from a Jaguar Cars body styling exercise into a fully operational motor car.

I wished that I could get my own Jaguar to Nottingham to be serviced and maintained

by him, but at that time it was impossible.

Eventually encountering a problem that was beyond all the ‘specialists’ local to me, I

wrote to David Marks and he replied with a set of instructions for my local specialist

to apply to my car. Ensuring that they worked to the letter, the fault was cured! The

advice was free, and for this I was truly grateful to David Marks.

Life is an odd thing, and I would never have believed that a few years later, fate would

lead David Marks to be a travelling companion on a memorable trip to Shetland, and I

know first-hand that he is extremely knowledgeable and has incredibly high scruples.

Rob Jenner and I now travel regularly from Scotland to Nottingham to have our

Jaguars cared for by David Marks.

After becoming a sponsor of Xclusively Jaguar I invited David to speak at Nigel Webb's

2015 Mark 1 Day. His talk went down so well that when he invited questions, the first

response was 'Can you leave a pile of business cards on the table, please?'

“CAN YOU LEAVE A PILE OF BUSINESS CARDS ON THE TABLE, PLEASE?”

David has since done a number of presentations at my request and has also been

a travelling companion with Rob Jenner and myself on further trips to Shetland and

Norway. He visits Europe regularly servicing cars onsite and many European customers

travel to Nottingham for more complex work to be carried out on their cars.

Although primarily a Jaguar specialist, known and respected for his knowledge of the

Jaguar range, he does like a challenge, accepting Aston Martin Lagondas, Virage and

the DB7 family on a regular basis.

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