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Record Creation: Entered on 6 May 2009.

 

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2009-10-02 15:21:26 | XK Data writes:

The record was updated:

  • Factory Paint Color was added: black
  • Factory Interior Color was added: biscuit + red
  • Factory Top Color was added: black
  • Original Owner Country was added: India
  • Current Country was added: India
  • Registration numbers (raw data): was added: BMU2944|
  • Registration number location (raw data): was added: India|

    • Car History

    From The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere (2009) by Elmgreen & McGrath

    HD India, fate unknown

    John Elmgreen (from Sydney, Australia) and Terry McGrath (Perth, Western Australia) have been extreme XK enthusiasts since the 1970s if not before. In 1985 they published "The Jaguar XK in Australia". It was described by Alan Clark (Jaguar expert, historian, Minister in the UK Thatcher government) as amongst Jaguar books "my own personal favourite" and by Jaguar automobilia expert Ian Cooling as a superb book standing "supreme in the Jaguar library as a testament to years of diligent research and scholarship". Terry McGrath is also co-author of the monumental "Forerunners of Jaguar in Australasia and SE Asia". The new book "The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere" is to be followed in due course by XK140 and XK150 volumes.

    © Elmgreen & McGrath

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    2009-10-02 11:37:39 | pauls writes:

    Notes provided by John Elmgreen and Terry McGrath from research for The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere:

    660798 - XK120 roadster - originally Black with Biscuit & Red trim, Black
    hood, delivered in the UK in 1951 to a buyer to the order of Garware Motors, Bombay. Owned there by John Warden of Bombay. Sold in 1952 through Garwares to Habib Hoosein of Bombay. In 1954 it won a couple of trophies, raced by Peter Heilbron at Juhu airport, Bombay (the car was then white). In the same race were other XK120s raced by Norshir Saher and D.P. Pandole. Still with the family, in the hands of Nazir Hoosein. Regd BMU2944

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