Founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922, by two motorcycle enthusiasts, Sir William Lyons, William Walmsley, the SS Jaguar name first appeared on a 2.5 litre saloon in 1935, sports models of which were the SS 90 and SS 100. The Jaguar name was given to the entire company in 1945...
the first Jaguar badged car, a 1937 SS Saloon NUB 120, the famous Appleyard rally car the penultimate D-type ‘Long Nose’ built in 1956, which won the Reims 12 hour race that year the 1966 XJ13 built to compete at Le Mans, but which never took part in the race the last E-type ...
and that the primer seen here was applied to fix a dent or other superficial flaw rather than repairing bodyrot. The Jaguar should really be pictured with its windows down, as that captures one of the car’s most pleasing features – that lack ...