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Written by Tom Harrison
Jaguar"s withdrawal from factory-backed motorsports in 1956 meant it had a few D-Types left idle, and a load of surplus parts.A plan was thus hatched to convert those D-Types into road-cars by fitting windscreens, doors, hoods and luggage racks, but leaving the mechanicals largely alone. A run of 25 cars was the aim, but nine (destined for the US) were destroyed in a fire at Jaguar"s Browns Lane factory, meaning just 16 were sold in all. Earlier this year Jag announced plans to build those nine lost XKSSs, and this is one of them. Kind-of. Revealed just now at the Petersen Museum in LA, it"s the work of Jaguar Classic the same team that in 2014 gave us the six missing Lightweight E-Types.The result of 18 months of research (that included the studying of original drawings, and the scanning of several originals to produce a complete digital picture), this one-off "Sherwood Green" car is effectively a "blueprint from which the nine continuation cars will be built". All nine will be new cars, but use period chassis numbers presumably from the cars lost in the fire. The bodies will be hand-wheeled from magnesium alloy, and the cars will feature period Dunlop disc brakes, Dunlop tyres and two-piece riveted magnesium alloy wheels.
Date written: 17 Nov 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 5813
Jaguar"s withdrawal from factory-backed motorsports in 1956 meant it had a few D-Types left idle, and a load of surplus parts.A plan was thus hatched to convert those D-Types into road-cars by fitting windscreens, doors, hoods and luggage racks, but leaving the mechanicals largely alone. A run of 25 cars was the aim, but nine (destined for the US) were destroyed in a fire at Jaguar"s Browns Lane factory, meaning just 16 were sold in all. Earlier this year Jag announced plans to build those nine lost XKSSs, and this is one of them. Kind-of. Revealed just now at the Petersen Museum in LA, it"s the work of Jaguar Classic the same team that in 2014 gave us the six missing Lightweight E-Types.The result of 18 months of research (that included the studying of original drawings, and the scanning of several originals to produce a complete digital picture), this one-off "Sherwood Green" car is effectively a "blueprint from which the nine continuation cars will be built". All nine will be new cars, but use period chassis numbers presumably from the cars lost in the fire. The bodies will be hand-wheeled from magnesium alloy, and the cars will feature period Dunlop disc brakes, Dunlop tyres and two-piece riveted magnesium alloy wheels.
Date written: 17 Nov 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 5813
