Jaguars

I took this photograph at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2002.

It's a line of Jaguars, three XK120 fixed head coupés and, second from the left, an XK150 drophead coupé. The Jaguar XK120 was introduced at the 1948 London Motor Show, the early cars having a wood-framed open two-seater body with aluminium panels, but replaced by an all-steel body early in 1950. All the XK120s had the 6-cylinder inline 3,442cc Jaguar XK6 engine. In 1954 the XK120 was succeeded by the XK140 which was outwardly very similar to the XK120, but had various improvements including the engine and dashboard being moved forward 3 inches to give the driver more legroom. The XK140 was then succeeded in 1957 by the XK150 which was rather more obviously different to the two earlier cars, having a one-piece windscreen, a wider grille and a straighter wing line from front to rear. It started production with the same 3,442cc engine, but from 1959 the 3,781cc engine became available as an alternative. Production of the XK150 ended in early 1961 with the introduction of the Jaguar E-Type.