Jaguar XK 120.

[Old Peter]

An XK120,  with one owner from new, and costing £180 to buy, has seen sold at auction for £77,000.  The owner, a mechanic, has covered over 300,000 miles in the car.

The XK120 was the first car that Malcolm Sayer worked on when he joined Jaguar.  The 120 was the speed of the car - over 120 mph. He was asked to get the speed up so the car could be used in competitions.  He did this by the use of aerodynamics and the car was know known as the C type.  -  the competition car.  He increased the speed  that there was never an XK130.

It was the motoring press who stared to call it the C type, and it was followed by the D Type, the XK140, and the XK150, known as the E type.

The D type won 3 Le Mans 24 hour endurance races , and reached 196 miles per hour on the Mulsanne Strait at Le Mans.

The style of following Jaguars sports cars  --  look at the radiator grill on the d type - has been repeated in following XK models.

Regards,

Peter.

A 1951 XK120 below.

[O.T.H]

Thank's for that Peter --very interesting .