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Saturday 3 February 2018

Jaguar XK120

I photographed this car in the paddock at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2003.
It's a 1952 Jaguar XK120 which the DVLA record says has a 3,442cc engine, presumably the XK6 straight-6 unit that was fitted to these cars when new. Its chassis number is 672427 and it's said to have been fitted at one time with a 4.5 litre and/or 4.2 litre engine, and to have competed in the Carrera Panamericana race in Mexico in the early 1950s (or possibly in the modern revival series started in 1988 - the xkdata.com record is inconclusive). It's also possible, of course, that it's still got this larger engine and the DVLA record is incorrect.

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