What a car!! Growing up in the 60's as a car nut, I vividly remember a neighbor, Edmund Rahal, that had the full race version of this Jag, the "D" type, in an unpainted all aluminum body. One of its distinguishing features was the fin behind the driver's head. He successfully raced the car all over the South.
https://vintageracecar.com/ed-rahal-1925-2009/Gil
I’m doing this from memory this morning Gil but I think the XKSS was an ill fated attempt to commercialize the D-Type. The D-Type came first.
One of the problems that beset the XKSS program, besides the usual Jag stuff, was that after 14? Cars were built, the wooden forms they used to beat the body panels into shape burned in a fire. That was enough for Jag to say “enough!”
