XK120 Picture, Anyone know the car?
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Lovely evocative photos sir, and I thnk you for them. You Dad must have had some pull in those days after the war since that car is March 1951 registered and I know from living in a meagre Ford dealership that my Dad could sell any car he wanted at well over list due to the "export or die" regime at the time. Waiting lists ran into years for any car.
lowdrag said:
Lovely evocative photos sir, and I thnk you for them. You Dad must have had some pull in those days after the war since that car is March 1951 registered and I know from living in a meagre Ford dealership that my Dad could sell any car he wanted at well over list due to the "export or die" regime at the time. Waiting lists ran into years for any car.
Thanks for that reply. Out of interest how do you know it is 1951 registered? (I am not doubting you by the way just curious to know what gives it away).He was a doctor and his first wife (ie not my mother) was Bertie Henly's only daughter (Henlys Garages) and apparently he declared to my father if he was going to marry his daughter he would need a car to make people think he was as successful as he would need to be in order to keep his daughter in the way she was accustomed. He therefore arranged with Bill Lyons for my father to get an early XK120 (he was told at the time it was an alloy bodied one). He didn't get a discount apparently even from his own father in law!
Out of interest his first new car after the war was an Armstrong-Siddely Hurricane, this was before he was married.
ToneyCaroney said:
I'm curious about the indicator lenses. Not seen that style on an XK before. Lowdrag will probably have some info.
Btw, I like the father in laws commitment to his profession; you can marry my daughter but only if you buy a car off me. Inspired!
Well he didn't become the biggest motor dealer in the South for nothing. I understand he had a deal with Sir George Kenning, Kenning's had the North and Henly's the South.....Btw, I like the father in laws commitment to his profession; you can marry my daughter but only if you buy a car off me. Inspired!
My father later annoyed his father-in-law by buying his Jaguars from John Coombs instead.
If you want to check out any car history as far as original registration details are concerned they can be found here:-
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/reg-l...
So, if you want to know when a car was registered and when, it isn't smoke and mirrors but a simple google.
I do so love the car, so pure in that it has the rear spats and steel wheels, but I'm afraid it isn't one of the original alloy cars - far too late for that. But thanks for the story; we are all enriched by such stories.
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/reg-l...
So, if you want to know when a car was registered and when, it isn't smoke and mirrors but a simple google.
I do so love the car, so pure in that it has the rear spats and steel wheels, but I'm afraid it isn't one of the original alloy cars - far too late for that. But thanks for the story; we are all enriched by such stories.
Do you know any more details of the XK?
Chassis number would make it easiest.
You can start by looking on http://xkdata.com
Which lists a great many of the extant XKs.
You could then try the XK Club (http://www.xkclub.com) where the main archivist is David Bentley, he has the details of many XKs including their older registration numbers.
Another good source of information would be the XK forum on Jag-Lovers (http://www.jag-lovers.com)
The more information you are able to provide the more chance there is of finding the car, and possibly making contact with current owner. I was recently contacted by the third owner of my XK150, who owned the car back in 1960.
Chassis number would make it easiest.
You can start by looking on http://xkdata.com
Which lists a great many of the extant XKs.
You could then try the XK Club (http://www.xkclub.com) where the main archivist is David Bentley, he has the details of many XKs including their older registration numbers.
Another good source of information would be the XK forum on Jag-Lovers (http://www.jag-lovers.com)
The more information you are able to provide the more chance there is of finding the car, and possibly making contact with current owner. I was recently contacted by the third owner of my XK150, who owned the car back in 1960.
lowdrag said:
If you want to check out any car history as far as original registration details are concerned they can be found here:-
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/reg-l...
So, if you want to know when a car was registered and when, it isn't smoke and mirrors but a simple google.
I do so love the car, so pure in that it has the rear spats and steel wheels, but I'm afraid it isn't one of the original alloy cars - far too late for that. But thanks for the story; we are all enriched by such stories.
Tony,http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/reg-l...
So, if you want to know when a car was registered and when, it isn't smoke and mirrors but a simple google.
I do so love the car, so pure in that it has the rear spats and steel wheels, but I'm afraid it isn't one of the original alloy cars - far too late for that. But thanks for the story; we are all enriched by such stories.
Thanks for that link, very interesting I have book marked that for future reference.
It can be hard to build all the correct facts when going through old slides and photographs especially when the man himself is no longer around to answer questions! He had a succession of Jaguars from XK120, XK140, XK150 and a succession of E types ending with a V12 which he hated and only kept a few months. He told me he had a lightweight 120 so either he was incorrect or it may have preceeded the car in the pictures, I just assumed this was it when I came accross the photographs.
The story of how he came to buy the Armstrong-Siddeley is quite interesting if anyone is interested.
a8hex said:
Do you know any more details of the XK?
Chassis number would make it easiest.
You can start by looking on http://xkdata.com
Which lists a great many of the extant XKs.
You could then try the XK Club (http://www.xkclub.com) where the main archivist is David Bentley, he has the details of many XKs including their older registration numbers.
Another good source of information would be the XK forum on Jag-Lovers (http://www.jag-lovers.com)
The more information you are able to provide the more chance there is of finding the car, and possibly making contact with current owner. I was recently contacted by the third owner of my XK150, who owned the car back in 1960.
Thanks for that. The photographs are the only record I knowingly have of the car so unfortunately the only detail I know is the registration. I will check out that website though and see if David Bentley has any record of that registration being on a car.Chassis number would make it easiest.
You can start by looking on http://xkdata.com
Which lists a great many of the extant XKs.
You could then try the XK Club (http://www.xkclub.com) where the main archivist is David Bentley, he has the details of many XKs including their older registration numbers.
Another good source of information would be the XK forum on Jag-Lovers (http://www.jag-lovers.com)
The more information you are able to provide the more chance there is of finding the car, and possibly making contact with current owner. I was recently contacted by the third owner of my XK150, who owned the car back in 1960.
RobinSherwood said:
Thanks for that. The photographs are the only record I knowingly have of the car so unfortunately the only detail I know is the registration. I will check out that website though and see if David Bentley has any record of that registration being on a car.
Oh well, that was always going to be a long shot, few people "in period" know their chassis numbers.The add on front indicators are rather distinctive, of course if the car still exists, there is no guarantee that they're still fitted, but scanning through photo's of 120s they'd stick out as an easy recognition point.
In your reply to Tony you mention a "light weight" 120, this is usually a term applied to the early batch of "Alloy" 120s before they got the 120 bodies ready for real production.
Does anyone remember the colour? old colour photo's don't make like easy, in a couple of the shots it looks brownish, in one a much more likely grey. Does anyone remember the year? (the reg indicates Mar 51 onwards) The interior is clearly red, so that limits the colour options if the paint is original. Most of the greys were available with red interiors. But this should help limit the number of cars to be searched. Feb 51 (giving time for shipping) starts with chassis 660729, March at 660733 (not much call for an OTS at that time of year?)
wedgeinald said:
TonyRPH said:
That reg number doesn't come up on either the DVLA website, or one of the HPI type car check sites.
Which suggests that the car could be in the great scrapyard in the sky, or the number has been changed.
Shows as insured on the Motor Isurance Database....Which suggests that the car could be in the great scrapyard in the sky, or the number has been changed.
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