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Post by daveh on Aug 17, 2011 3:23:20 GMT -5
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Post by nikonbob on Aug 17, 2011 9:53:39 GMT -5
You can park that in my driveway anytime you like. I would settle for just the burl wood dash, better than today's plastic burl wood replicas. The first shot does it for me.
Bob
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2011 10:07:05 GMT -5
Dave: You had the steering wheel on the wrong side. Fixed it for ya. ;D
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Post by daveh on Aug 17, 2011 11:09:21 GMT -5
Bob, perhaps you would prefer an XK 150. I saw this just a couple of days before the 120 - not having seen an example of either for quite some time prior to ten days ago. It had passed me before I could get the camera organise, so I only the back view. Wayne, if you just moved the steering wheel over to the left on this one it would have a driver with some bite.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2011 12:52:31 GMT -5
The 120 is a beautiful machine --prettier than the XKE IMO.
Wayne
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Post by julio1fer on Aug 17, 2011 20:32:16 GMT -5
Daveh, I'd really like to be that dog, please!
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Post by nikonbob on Aug 17, 2011 20:53:14 GMT -5
Naw, I'll stay with the120, white is not my colour and I like the split wind screen.
Bob
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Post by daveh on Aug 18, 2011 1:12:45 GMT -5
The dog does look as if he is the owner and the driver is only the chauffeur.
Wayne, I have to agree with you. I never liked the E-type (as it was known here) from an appearance point of view. It would probably be the 120 for me as the nicest looking Jaguar.
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Post by PeterW on Aug 18, 2011 9:22:46 GMT -5
Jaguar's XK120 was launched in 1948, Britain's first post-war sports car. The 120 in the designation referred to the top speed of 120 mph, and at the time it was the world's fastest production road-going car. The XK referred to the brilliant straight-six engine designed and developed by Jaguar's chief engineer William Heynes and Walter Hassan during the last few years of World War 2. I agree that it is a contender for the nicest looking Jaguar ever built, but to my mind it has to share that accolade with the Jaguar MkII Saloon. Echoes of that body style are evident in Jaguar's latest saloons. William Lyons always had a flair for body styling and for producing cars that looked much more expensive than the price. His late 1930s SS100 was, to my mind, the archetypal British sports car of the 1930s. It looked, and was, every inch a "Promenade Percy's" girl catcher. 1939 SS Jaguar 100 PeterW
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Post by daveh on Aug 18, 2011 12:19:22 GMT -5
Peter, the MGTC beat it by three years! Admittedly it wasn't much changed from the pre-war TB, but there were changes. Perhaps the wording for the XK120 should be "Britain's first sports car designed fully after the war", although I wouldn't know if that were actually the case without further investigations.
As to the archetypal 1930s sports car, it depends to whom you talk but if you look at films of that period (or made about that period) I would think more MGs figure than any other marque.
(But then I have got an MGTD so I would go with the MG, wouldn't I.)
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Post by PeterW on Aug 18, 2011 15:48:18 GMT -5
Dave,
Like the XK120, planning the MGTC started before the war ended. But, unlike the XK120 it wasn't a "new" design. It used the same chassis and engine as the TB but the suspension was altered to use lever-arm dampers. and the springs were carried in rubber-bushed shackles instead of the TB's sliding trunnions. The body was made four inches wider at the seats, and the twin 6 volt batteries under the floor were replaced by a single 12 volt battery on the dash in the engine compartment.
In essence it wasn't a new car at all, just a revamp of the TB.
PeterW
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Post by daveh on Aug 18, 2011 16:13:44 GMT -5
Peter, in that case maybe the MGTD was the first fully post-war designed British sports car!
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 18, 2011 19:56:54 GMT -5
Is this 1938 MGTA the predecessor of the above mentioned MG's? Mickey
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Post by daveh on Aug 18, 2011 20:05:11 GMT -5
Mickey, yes. there were several series of MG Midgets starting in 1929 with the M-Type. Then came the J, followed by the PA and PB and then the T series.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2011 22:09:29 GMT -5
Back in the early '70s I was driving down the street in Boise Idaho when a beautiful green sports car passed me--looked brand new. I thought it looked like a Morgan. Another car was following the sports car and honking its horn. The drivers pulled into a parking lot and I stopped, too, to see what was going on.
Turned out the car was a MGTC. The owner had just finished restoring it from the ground up. It looked new. It was the first time he had had the car out on the street. The fellow following him said he had owned a TC and always wanted to get another one. (It was obvious he was well to do). He asked the TC owner how much he wanted for the car. The owner said it wasn't for sale. The guy started rattling off numbers--BIG numbers for those days (can't remember the specifics). Finally he hit a price the owner just couldn't say no to. They headed off to the bank to get cash.
Guy got to drive his fully-restored car JUST ONCE!
Wayne
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