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United KingdomLAS178

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Record Creation: Entered on 23 December 2005.

Database Updates: Show dataplate edits

 

Heritage Notes

Registered: LAS 178

Car History

From The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere (2009) by Elmgreen & McGrath

Morocco, USA, UK

John Elmgreen (from Sydney, Australia) and Terry McGrath (Perth, Western Australia) have been extreme XK enthusiasts since the 1970s if not before. In 1985 they published "The Jaguar XK in Australia". It was described by Alan Clark (Jaguar expert, historian, Minister in the UK Thatcher government) as amongst Jaguar books "my own personal favourite" and by Jaguar automobilia expert Ian Cooling as a superb book standing "supreme in the Jaguar library as a testament to years of diligent research and scholarship". Terry McGrath is also co-author of the monumental "Forerunners of Jaguar in Australasia and SE Asia". The new book "The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere" is to be followed in due course by XK140 and XK150 volumes.

© Elmgreen & McGrath

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2005-12-23 10:34:33 | pauls writes:

Car was at acution in '03
www.practicalclassics.co.uk/auctionlot/by-id/1285155814/

Auction description:
Lot 135: Jaguar XK120 Roadster Competition Car (1953)
An Important Auction of Grand Prix, Competition, Touring and Rally Cars & Automobilia, Coys (11th January 2003)
Lot Details
Auction An Important Auction of Grand Prix, Competition, Touring and Rally Cars & Automobilia
Coys, N.E.C., Birmingham
Type Car
Lot Number 135
Estimate £30000-£35000
Hammer Price -
Hammer Price (inc premium) £34405
Year 1953
Condition rating 1
Registration number LAS 178
Mileage -
Chassis number 674221

2010-02-19 23:41:56 | Anonymous writes:

Shown on "THE GARAGE" a T V Show

2013-03-19 16:06:31 | Anonymous writes:

mat@repossessions-uk.com or call 01606-558911

2016-07-22 14:16:15 | John A Schofield writes:

this is my car and now restored does anyone have any racing history and names of racing drivers for LAS178 please

2022-08-22 04:17:39 | Ferruccio Camerlengo writes:

as per chassis data should be an August 1953 car.

The chromed position lights/ sidelights instead suggest an earlier car , but very probably a lot of things were changed on a competition car. In any case it will be interesting to look at the chassis numbers, or at the identification plate if present . A nice interesting car indeed .

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