2005-12-26 11:02:59 | pauls writes:

Car was at auction in '99
www.practicalclassics.co.uk/auctionlot/by-id/1270874965/

Auction description:
Lot 789: Jaguar XK120 Lightweight (1948)
Classic Cars, Brooks (18th June 1999)
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Lot Details
Auction Classic Cars
Brooks, Goodwood office, Goodwood
Type Car
Lot Number 789
Estimate £70000-£90000
Hammer Price £76000
Hammer Price (inc premium) -
Year 1948
Condition rating 1
Registration number ESJ 563
Mileage -
Chassis number 660002
Engine number W1009-7

2006-01-13 20:15:34 | pauls writes:

Said to be the second RHD XK120 car built. Mentioned in the Nov-Dec 05 issue of Jaguar Journal Magazine as having been seen by Paul Skilleter.

2006-09-26 21:05:20 | pauls writes:

There was a reference to the car in the June '98 issue of Classic Cars magazine.
www.retroclassics.com/sold/sold11.htm

2011-04-20 17:37:37 | pauls writes:

Beautiful photo of this car in "The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere (2009) by Elmgreen & McGrath" on page 17. Said to have arrived in Australia Oct. '49, cream with biscuit/red trim.

2011-08-12 15:16:20 | Michael Scott writes:

This car (the earliest surviving?) is described in "Jaguar Driver" April 1983 in a letter from Australia(Mike Downey).
It had been standing out in the long grass for fifteen years, the owner refusing to sell. Finally he did agree to sell to Mal Biddlecombe. The car arrived in Australia in early 1950 and was displayed at motor shows.

2012-02-03 00:03:46 | pauls writes:

Good news, owner Mike Downey says he has secured the original cylinder head in his letter to the XK Gazette, it appears in the February 2012 edition.

2014-04-29 04:11:11 | Jeremy Boyce writes:

It would be really good to see a photo.

2014-07-29 10:43:49 | Simon Addinsell writes:

Peter Golding and I retrieved 660002 from Australia in 1990, through the good offices of Greg 'Pee Wee' Siddell (Nelson Piquet's manager) He had (re) discovered it the year before. When it arrived, it had a cylinder head without a number at all(!) we had all wondered if it had been 'purloined' (along with the chassis plate). It had many unique features. As a point of interest, Greg also found for us, Frank Gardner's incredible flip front, fiber glass bodied, racing XK120

2014-07-30 20:04:33 | terry mcgrath writes:

thanks Simon we from memory spoke several times back in those crazy days.
Just for reference when 660002 left Australia for the UK the following parts at least remained here
Bonnet this is now currently in western Australia to be converted to fit a standard XK120!
Hood frame
rear window from the hood frame cloth (I have this)
ID plate (Location not know but someone has it)
Head and only in the last couple of years was passed onto the owner of another alloy XK120

We have covered the history of this car quite comprehensively in our book " The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere" pub 2010
see sample Pages at www.jtpublications.com.au/book/

What is Peter Golding up to these days
terry

2019-08-18 07:21:34 | BustaBlofish writes:

Frank Gardeners car was sold through Pickles Auctions Lidcombe in 1987, or at least was stored there. I remember the car well as when starting it I would be in it and have an offsider standing by to one side of the open carbies with an extinguisher ready to go for fear the thing would catch fire if it backfired when starting. It was a bit of a beast.

2020-09-08 04:04:41 | Anonymous writes:

The original Frank Gardner fiberglass XK 120 body is still in Australia. The restored chassis recreation body maybe in the U.K now. The original body finally went to South Australia and was put on a fabricated chassis and has been registered in South Australia for about 30 years. The registration number is VGK399

2021-04-21 07:52:05 | terry mcgrath writes:

The statement posted by "Anonymous" 8th September 2020 is total rubbish as below.

The car that was in SA is a new fibreglass body made by Brian Latimore in Geelong last 30 years and is not the ex gardner car in anyway shape or form!

The original Frank Gardner fiberglass XK 120 body is still in Australia. The restored chassis recreation body maybe in the U.K now. The original body finally went to South Australia and was put on a fabricated chassis and has been registered in South Australia for about 30 years. The registration number is VGK399