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680997

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   Bouloch & Reynaud, Algiers, Algeria
 680997 8 April 1953
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 25 March 1953 
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
 

 

Record Creation: Entered on 18 May 2018.

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

Algeria, 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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2018-05-18 16:15:15 | pauls writes:

From Clausager's "Jaguar XK120 In Detail" 680997 FHC LHD, 25 March 1953, to Bauloch & Reynaud in Algeria. In 1957 this car was re-bodied as a fibreglass roadster by Jacques Schwindenhammer, a paper merchant from Turckheim in Alsace."

From "The Jaguar XK140 in the Southern Hemisphere" John Elmgreen & Terry McGrath, there is some questioin that it was this car Schwindenhammer rebodied in firberglass.

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