Jaguar XK120 SE Roadster, 1954
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Chassis No.: S674424
- Exterior: Blue
- Interior: Red
- Body: Roadster
- Ground-up restoration to correct standards
- Estimated 500 hours invested in bodywork and paint
- Rebuilt 3.4/180 HP inline 6-cylinder engine
- Engine no. F1203-8S
- C-type cylinder head
- Stainless dual exhaust
- Rebuilt 4-speed gearbox and differential
- Restored suspension components
- Finished in Light Blue
- Red Connolly leather with Wilton carpets
- Dark Blue convertible top with matching side curtains and tonneau
- Fender-mounted mirrors
- Smiths instruments
- Wood dash and steering wheel
- Lucas fog lamps
- Painted Dayton wire wheels with spinners
While onlookers gawped in jaw-on-the-floor wonder as the Jaguar XK120 made its show-stopping debut at the 1948 London Motor Show, there were skeptics who questioned the attainability of the speed implied by its name. Naysayers soon ate their words when in May 1949 an XK120 with aero-screens and undertray averaged 132.6 MPH for the flying mile on the Jabbeke autoroute in Belgium. Why Belgium? There simply wasn’t a suitable road in England. With cars in standard trim capable of 120 MPH, the XK120 was quite simply the world’s fastest production car, no argument.
As for XK, that stands for the very advanced alloy-headed 6-cylinder twin-overhead-cam XK engine, which debuted in the XK120 and endured until 1986. The space-frame competition version, the XK120C, better known as the C-type, won Le Mans in 1951 and 1953. Meanwhile, from 1951 road car drivers could opt for the higher-performance 180 HP SE—Special Equipment—with high-lift cam shafts, a lightened flywheel, C-type cylinder head, twin exhausts and wire wheels. That’s what our example is: a 1953 ground-up restored XK120 SE with an estimated 500 hours invested in body and paint work alone.
Finished in light blue, the red Connolly leather interior and Wilton carpets are complemented by a wood-rim steering wheel and wood center console, replete with Smiths instruments. The same attention has been paid to rebuilding the engine, gearbox, differential and suspension components. Optional Lucas fog lamps and fender mirrors augment the exterior, while the painted Dayton wires are wrapped in blackwall tires. Initially conceived as a low-run prestige showstopper, the XK120 became a defining brand statement with 12,000 produced until 1954—85 percent of which went for export, with the vast majority of those to the U.S.—helping to secure Jaguar’s very future and sporting legacy.
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