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509 Jaguar XK120 DHC (1952) GFV 514

Jaguar XK120 DHC (1949-54) Engine 3442cc S6 DOC Production 7612

Registration Number GFV 513 (Blackpool)

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Launched at the 1948 London Motor Show as a Roadstrer as a show car, with public reaction encouraging William Lyons to put it in production for 1949. With the first customer car delivered to Clark Gable.

 

The first 242 were handbuilt with aluminium bodies and ash frames, but to meet demand the mass produced cars that followed had pressed steel bodies, but retained the aluminium doors, bonnet and boot lid.

 

Powered by a 3.4 litre straight six XK engine With alloy cylinder head and twin side-draft SU carburetors, the dual overhead-cam With alloy cylinder head and twin side-draft SU carburetors, the dual overhead-cam it developed 160 bhp.

 

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Shot 23.04.2016 Shot at VSCC Spring Start Meeting, Silverstone REF 115-509

 

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Uploaded on April 17, 2020