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Record Creation: Entered on 6 May 2009.

Some data provided courtesy: The Jaguar XK120 in the Southern Hemisphere (2009) by Elmgreen & McGrath

 

Car History

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

NZ

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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2011-12-15 11:30:52 | Michael Scott writes:

This car is mentioned in Jaguar Driver magazine December 1977 in an interesting letter from the owner, Robert McDonald of Winton New Zealand. He mentions that the car had an interesting, if not a shady, past! It showed signs of being raced with modified bodywork.. He states that the car apparently left the factory pained black with tan upholstery and had many different colours since. He rescued the car from an old shed in a cherry orchard and the colour then was metallic pink.

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