Showing posts with label XK SS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label XK SS. Show all posts
Saturday, May 09, 2026
Sunday, August 07, 2022
if I won the lotto, and bought a gas station /garage /museum, I'd go to Pebble Beach auctions to buy stuff for eye candy to put in that garage. And probably whistle "these are a few of my favorite things"
1935 Miller Ford Indy racer once owned by Andy Granatelli and recently sympathetically restored by Zakira’s Garage
1929 Duesenberg instrument panel
1962 Ferrari 250 GT engine topped with Webers, backed with a 4 spd
Sunday, January 31, 2021
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.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Steve McQueen with his newly acquired XKSS before it was repainted. Condor was the name of his first production company.
Steve McQueen's Jaguar XKSS, a D-type racer in street trim.
The car was white with red interior when he bought it, but he got it painted green and fitted with a specially stitched black leather upholstery. He gave $ 5,000 for it in 1958. It was his wife Neile who wrote the check.
Steve McQueen sold the Green Rat in 1967 and regretted it. After hard negotiations, he bought it back 10 years later and kept it until his death.
https://viaretro.dk/2013/08/lordags-matine-nr-34/
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Monday, May 11, 2020
Monday, December 19, 2016
never seen this photo of Steve before
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the car is now owned by the Petersen Museum in LA, and they brought it to the annual Friends Of Steve McQueen car show fundraiser for Boys Republic (his favorite charity, and where he was once stuck before coming of age) http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/06/steve-mcqueens-xk-ss-d-type-jaguar.html
Thursday, September 04, 2014
cool photos found on stunningpicture.tumblr.com
the first color image I've seen of the Fiat rooftop track
Ralph Lauren's... and the idiots at Reddit think it's a one-of-a-kind. Nope, the Mullin museum has it's twin brother in blue
and this is why skaters should wear helmets
the Estonia State Opera parking lot
at the Tesla dealership. Hope that one was insured
All from http://stunningpicture.tumblr.com/
Thursday, July 31, 2014
the largest British car collection was just sold for 170 million dollars, from a dentist to Jaguar Special Operations dept
Some of the cars had belonged to John Lennon, Elton John, Winston Churchhill, William Lyons, etc list of celebs
130 of the 543 cars are Jaguars; C-Types, D-Types, E-Types, XK120s, SS100s. There are thirty Mark saloons and twenty XJs. And an XKSS
There has never before been such a collection of British cars, and not likely to ever be another.
For a video interview
There are also 356 pedal cars
Sunday, June 08, 2014
Steve McQueens XK SS D Type Jaguar currently owned by the Petersen Museum in LA
This glove box door was made by Von Dutch. No kidding. Steve McQueen was tired of the sunglasses and such falling out of the glove box when enjoying the car, so he asked his friend Von Dutch to fix it somehow
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
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