XKSS at auction

As rare as a 250 gto

Imagine waking up and seeing this in your garage
What colour lambskin gloves would you wear?

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/02/16/one-of-16-built-1957-jaguar-xkss-could-top-16-million-at-amelia-island-sale/?refer=news&utm_source=3.09.17+Spotlight&utm_campaign=Mina+Spotlight&utm_medium=email

 

The XKSS may be my favorite car-- certainly favorite non-Ferrari.

I think it's more rare. 16 original and 9 continuations.

A local bar has an original on display. Wish they would put it on the road.

 

Something like this...
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May be rare, but still butt ugly. Much rather have the equally rare (and beautiful) Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato.

 

I think that the XK-SS is cool and I understand the rarity, but it makes no sense to me that they sell for more than a proper D Type.

 

That's a minority opinion if I've ever heard one.

 

Hi,

I think it's perfectly logical, as each and every one of the original ones was born as a proper D-type. But then the factory added a few things, like a badge, bumpers, a hood (top), muffler, luggage rack and...well that's about it.

Thank God they now are appreciated, as before it was so that many of them had been converted back to D-types. Every XKSS has two chassis numbers, one as XKD5XX and one as XKSS7XX.

So rarer than a GTO but not as expensive and of course not as desirable to some folks.

Cheers,

Pekka T.
Fin.

 

My PC has two monitors, when I'm not using the right one, this website is currently my "screensaver".

JD Classics

 

no sale due to nonmatching motor?

 

I think the late disclosure and that fact impacted the auction. However, bidding to $11.9 million for that car should have sold it, IMO.

-dsd

 

Or you could have lynx build you an exact car now and actualy enjoy it on the road.


Performance is still near the top even today, and its way more of a blast to drive than anything modern. There is a reason why after plaing with ferrari 275s Mqueen bought his back, of course he sold it to keep his license. Passenger legs also burn up from heat, so not really a street car in the strictest sense, actualy a street legal race car with wind protection..

The great thing about a Dytpe recreation is youre not trashing some other period built car to make it, as sadly happens with ferraris.

 

Aren't a lot of the D and XKSS recreation's using E-Type Chassis and/or engines?

The really nice XKSS/D-Type recreations are all aluminum and cost a few hundred thousand, from what I have seen. I'd love to have a left hand drive one

 

A recreation should be exactly that a tool room copy, same monocoque etc. The onoy difference is one has a period chasis plate and the recreation does not.

 

Uhh..I am in Virginia and would love to see that, what bar?

 

Clyde's in Chevy Chase.

Clyde's | The City's Favorite Saloons and Restaurants

 

I'm finding it very difficult to believe that car displayed at Clyde's could be the real deal.

Mind you, it does look very nice:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BL5DSX4jU2l/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGA3SzxA_Y-/

I've reviewed the XKSS entries at COVENTRYRACERS - Keeping track of every Jaguar Sports Racer - Jaguar C-Type, D-Type, XKSS and Lightweight information, articles, photos and register - and they account for 15 of 16 real cars with photos. None are a match to this car, and there's no indication that any of them could have been hiding in plain sight for decades at this bar. Google has a couple of passing references, but really nothing conclusive.

>8^)
ER

 

Everything I have heard and read indicates that it is real. I guess I need to make a trip and get a chassis plate photo

Background on the group. The car had been there for decades (article is 15 years old) :

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2002/10/21/story8.html

 

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I had seen that. Honestly I'd love nothing more than for this story to be true, but at the moment it doesn't quite add up. I have a friend who is somewhat local in D.C. who will also try to get a closer look by paying them a visit.

>8^)
ER

 

RM just had a tempuro at amelia that brough 250k i think

 

Hi,

Not really, they might use the "identity" of a scarpped E-type, but more typically some other Jaguar, XJ6, S-type etc.

They don't use the chassis, as an E-type or an XJ6 does not really have a chassis and the monocoque or body are so different. Basically most replicas do this in order to be a "modified" old car and thus be able to register the car for street use (titled) and not be just a "kit car" but in a lot of cases they do not use anything more than a Jaguar engine block, sometimes a gearbox and final drive as well as some other mechanical parts.

Cheers,

Pekka T.
Fin.

 

This car is clearly a fake. At a glance I see the following issues. The front end proportions are not right. It is missing the fuel filler behind the driver. The transmission tunnel is clearly wrong.

Cheers Jim

 

I was leaning that way of course, and appreciate your insight.

I do want to point out that in this alternate overhead view the fuel filler is present.

>8^)
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Thanks for pointing that out. Your are correct it is in the right spot.

Cheers Jim

 

Does the owner realise he has 16 million dollars collecting dust in his bar?