Originally Posted by bushveld
Originally Posted by canvasback
Originally Posted by GLS
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!”

Canvasback;

You have good memory. When you view this video below about the newly (5 years or so ago) built XKSS' it will bring back more of your memories. The new ones were priced at almost US$ 2million.



Kindest Regards;
Stephen Howell

laugh I cheated Stephen. Jags run in my family. Numerous XJ12 and a mint 1972 E-Type V12 Convertible. Jaguars and Alfa Romeos were my introduction to a different kind of car than what America was making in the late 1960's and throughout the 1970's. And my earliest obsession (long before guns) were cars, specifically the products of England, Italy and Detroit muscle cars. (Odd grouping, I know).

Then women showed up!

And not to be totally off topic. Steve McQueen. He's just an actor.

Oh, and my uncle, by marriage, wrote the account while a POW in that camp, that became the basis of the book, The Great Escape, which spawned the movie. He was also a director of British Leyland, owners of the Jaguar marque.

Last edited by canvasback; 02/20/22 11:49 AM.
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