2015-01-12 14:38:28 | Chris Steineger writes:

My father, Jack Steineger, bought this car new while in London. It was shipped home to Kansas City, KS where it was his daily driver until 1967 when he bought a new Buick Riviera. My brother then owned it for a year or so then sold it to buy a "64 Vette. We lost track of the car after that but heard it had been painted yellow, and later crashed into a garage door.

2015-03-08 11:52:14 | pauls writes:

Chris writes to the XK Gazette that he has original delivery documentation and would like to find the car/current owner to fill in its history. Please contact the XK Club with any information.

2017-11-30 16:44:58 | Mike Bowen writes:

We have this vehicle in our inventory of vehicles to be restored. We purchased this some years ago in boxes. It has a non-original motor and is in need of rust repair. Would like to find any other history about this vehicle.

Mike Bowen
Collectable Auto Restoration Services
Terre Haute, IN

2017-12-01 16:17:08 | MBarnett writes:

Lowest engine number ever recorded for all 150's . V-1007-8

2017-12-02 11:58:10 | Peter Ingram writes:

Well: unless you count V1001-9 which may have been in 834001 now scrapped and is in S824021 with Terry McGrath in Perth Australia

2019-05-31 12:08:18 | Chris Steineger writes:

My father worked for the US Embassy in Germany & Bagdad during the 1950s. In 1957, he and the family moved home to the US and he bought this car new as a kind of trophy. It was the only XK150 in Kansas City at the time. My father drove the Jag daily until '67, when he bought a new Buick Riviera. My older brother drove the Jag a few years but in '69 it was sold out of the family. It spent 47 years in Oklahoma and was taken apart there in the mid 1980s.

One year ago I found it and bought it back on a whim, but its for sale as of 5/31/19

2019-06-02 00:07:59 | terrence mcgrath writes:

V1001-8 and associated gearbox was in 834001 and was removed by mid 1957 and was fitted to S824021 which in the process of fitting to the Peter Whitehead car built in the experimental department in august 1957 and was fitted with the first prototype straight port head and upgraded to 9-1 compression. This car is noted in factory records as the prototype XK150 "S" Tour de France. Whist factory records note 834001 as "reduced to produce" in 1962 this was in fact only a date as a result of an audit tidying up factory cars where no one had updated records earlier

Well: unless you count V1001-9 which may have been in 834001 now

scrapped and is in S824021 with Terry McGrath in Perth Australia