Cars in barns...

[irvingj]

Neat!! They had one like that, but all black, on the display floor at the Jag plant in Coventry when I visited there in 1967. Did a term paper on that company when in high school. The SS100, remember, is not a Jaguar. That name didn't come about until after WWII; prior to that it was the Swift-Swallow Sidecar Company.

Not surprisingly, "SS" had a kind of a bad ring to it after WWII. Sir Wm. Lyons was responsible for choosing the name "Jaguar."

I had the wonderful opportunity to grow up with a 1952 XK120 that both my parents raced. This, in the age of the original Detroit Muscle Cars of the 60s. That 3.5 liter, 6-cylinder Jag surprised many a fast American car in its day....(as long as there were corners involved, that is! :laughing::laughing

 

[ToadHill]

No pictures but years ago I gave my son 2 cars he absolutely wanted to restore. 20 YEARS AGO TO BE EXACT. One was a 1962 Alfa Romeo that I drove for many years and the other was a Formula 3 Sadler powered by a 1959 Triumph 550cc motorcycle engine. This was the only Formula 3 that the famous Canadian builder Bill Sadler ever built.

Much to my disappointment both cars continue to sit in his garage untouched.