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3.4 XK120

Twilight Blue

Open Two Seater

Light + Dark Blue

Right Hand Drive

Gunmetal

660999

25 June 1952

W5509-7

28 July 1952

London

June 1952

United Kingdom

1952

Twilight Blue

2024

Light + Dark Blue

Rest: Nice

Gunmetal

Original

Perth

Western Australia

Original

Australia

YDZ228

5 more photos below ↓

Record Creation: Entered on 16 February 2024.

Database Updates: Show dataplate edits

Heritage Notes

colour originally twilight blue but no selecrtion for it on table, interior Duo Blue submitted to give people a better and correct idea what the light blue component of Duo blue looks like. The lighter of the blues which is really not blue but more a gunmetal colour described by Conolly as Blue-Grey. This colour remained constant from MKV XK120 140 and 150

Car History

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

HD Singapore, Australia

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.

Owner: Josh Reed

Been bitten by the Jag bug !

(email)

Updated February 16th, 2024. Not legal proof of ownership.

Photos of 660999

Click slide for larger image. This car has 6 photos. (Dates are when image was uploaded.)

Exterior Photos (2)

Uploaded February 2024:

2024-02-16

Uploaded February 2012:

2012-02-08

Interior Photos (1)

Uploaded March 2009:

2009-03-15

Action Photos (1)

Uploaded January 2006:

2006-01-04

Detail Photos: Interior (1)

Uploaded February 2024:

2024-02-16

Detail Photos: Other (1)

Uploaded October 2014:

2014-10-07

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2009-03-15 10:26:38 | terry mcgrath writes:

colour originally twilight blue but no selecrtion for it on table, interior Duo Blue
submitted to give people a better and correct idea what the light blue component of Duo blue looks like. The lighter of the blues which is really not blue but more a gunmetal colour described by Conolly as Blue-Grey.
This colour remained constant from MKV XK120 140 and 150

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