Jumbo Goddard bought the Le-mans winning Jaguar OKV1 (the prototype XK SS) screwed a windscreen to it, and chopped the fuel tank in half to make space for his picnic basket (thanks Paul!)

His favorite car was the Jaguar works Le Mans D Type OKV1 that came second in 1954 and driven by Duncan Hamilton.

   

After Le Mans, Hamilton bought the D type from Jaguar and it was tidied up and displayed at the Paris motor show on the Jaguar display, but after the show it was being driven back to Calais and was wrecked.

Hamilton recovered the damaged Jag and set it aside in his workshop. Enter Jumbo Goddard...

In 1956, He heard of the car awaiting its fate and approached Hamilton to buy it off him.

Hamilton was going to part it out, a deal was done and OKV1 changed hands, part of the deal was Hamilton repair OKV1 as a touring car.

The damaged fin was left off, a windshield was fitted, a luggage rack bolted to the rear, the fuel tank was cut in half so a picnic basket would fit, and a passenger door and seat installed.

this guy was into living a legend life... 

in 1957 the now 50 year old Goddard signed on as an Ordinary Seaman for the voyage of the Mayflower II on a 56 day voyage from Plymouth Devon to Plymouth Massachusetts.

But what sealed his legendary status was fitting an 8 liter Bentley engine he'd found in an junkyard ambulance during the war to another Bentley he'd bought in 1928 and with his personal touch of twin turbo chargers from Garrett, who in 1954 had only just went into business, and succeeded in creating what was for some time, the fastest Bentley in the world.

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