 I purchased the car in 1978, it was a one lady owner vehicle brought it from a friend of mine in London who was in charge of looking after the Mark II that was in Morse programme. In 1986 I decided to have a bare metal re-spray and change the colour from blue to calm and red. That was fine and I drove the car from then until 2005 when it suffered an engine fire due to the overflow issuing petrol onto the hot surface of the engine. I think when I started it up there was a spark and it ignited. This caused a singed area to the bonnet and I was advised rather than just spray the bonnet that the front of the car should be sprayed. This would match the paint on the rear which it did. Following on from that re-spray in 2005 it was noticeable in ten years later that the rear paint work had faded and turned a sort of opaque finish. So a few weeks ago there was an email from the chairman of the local Jaguar club in Derbyshire asking me if there was anyone with a car that suffered fading paint due to ultraviolet light. That's the story, that's why I'm here.