Jaguars

I took this photograph of two Jaguars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting in July 2000.

On the left is a 1950 Jaguar XK120 with the 6-cylinder inline 3,442cc Jaguar XK engine. The car on the right appears to be a Jaguar D Type and the DVLA records say that it is a 1956 Jaguar XKSS D Type, first registered (presumably in its converted form) in 1990, with a 3.8 litre engine. The original XKSS cars were produced in 1957 when Jaguar converted 25 unsold D-Types into road cars, although 9 of these cars were destroyed in a fire at the Browns Lane factory before they left the production line.