(photo from Switzerland by permission - all right reserved to source)
(cropped from 1935 SS1 CMA 490 photo from Japan by permission - all right reserved to source)
(photo by and © 1961 S. Berliner, III - all right reserved)
(cropped and silhouetted from Aug 2004 photo by K. Parker - all rights reserved)
(18 Feb 04 photos by and © 2004 S. Berliner, III - all right reserved)
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Continuation Pages.
You may wish to visit them, also, and see more of REAL SS and old Jaguar
cars!
All pages now include additional digitized photographs from SB,III's collection.
may choose to append at the bottom of that page.
(moved to Continuation Page 3 on 30 Jan 01)
This page:
More modern Jaguar cars, from the XK120 and Mark VII, up.
RETHINKING THIS PAGE - I have moved modern (post-Mark V) Jag material
(Mark VII and XK-120 and up) here to free up space on my SS Jaguars pages.
Please bear with me as I struggle through this change (12 Nov 03).
SAMPLES (teasers, really!):
(photos from Switzerland by permission - all right reserved to source)
[Thumbnail images; click on pictures for larger images.]
And here's my own (once) 1948 3½-litre Jaguar drop-head coupé (the so-called Mark
IV) in 1956:
(photo by and © 1956/2001 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
Now, you have to admit, that's some Jag!
O. K., here we go with more modern Jags -
- [There never was
a Mark VI Jaguar; that number having been pre-empted by Bentley.]
Mark this well - repeating what I noted on the main SS Jaguar page, there's the
argument over "Mk. V" vs. "Mark V" (or any other model);
nowhere have I found any proper reference to "Mk.".
Note also that I finally (18 Feb 04) got around to reshooting the modern cat
mascot and badge at the top of the SS and Jag pages! I did not deliberately
include Old Glory beyond the cat but I like it and it's appropriate; without old Uncle
Sam, neither SS Cars nor Jaguar would have made it.
Rummaging around for some old photos ca. 27 Aug 03, I ran across these
shots, labelled only as "Fall 59", of my then-new (for me) 1950 Mk V!
The background of the brighter shots is not familiar; the darker ones are
definitely in front of my garage in Lynbrook (moved
here 30 Aug 04):
(Fall 1959 photos by and © 1959/2003 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
I never used the rear skirts; they made a stodgy car even stodgier! I can't
make out in the second photo if this was pre or post the right hand trafficator fire.
That's the car I sold as "plumb wore out" and the friend to whom I sold it drove from
Long Island to Florida (~1,800 miles) and back for many more years with no major
service problems!
Jumping to what appears to be Broswere (Woodmere) Bay, the parking lot at the end
of Woodmere Boulevard, we find my (then-)wife gracing our XK120M drophead coupé:
(Jun '60 photos by and © 1960/2003 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
As with the Mark V, I never used the rear wheel skirts. Note that the XK120M
(known in England as the XK120SE) had a high-performance 190HP engine (the
original XK120 produced 160HP) plus dual exhaust pipes and chromed-wire wheels
as standard equipment. There NEVER was an XK120MC; that
was first used on the succeeding XK140MC. The 190HP M/SE engine was the
one used on the XK140M and, when fitted with the head from the C-Type, was the
XK140MC, which churned out 210HP.
{moved from SS Jag page 1 on 12 Jan 04}
Odd - I just noticed that there's no right-hand exhaust pipe, yet I know that
I had the bigger engine and wire wheels. ???
Now to that Vanderbilt Cup caper in the
XK120M. Famed artist Peter Helck's equally famous Locomobile "Old 16"
was there and the old car race was probably more exciting for me than the
Cup race itself. The races were run ca. early-June 1960 on the flat, on
a twisting road course laid out in the infield and around the Roosevelt Raceway,
a trotting track. When the Cup race was over, the security guards must
have gone home and my buddy noticed that little oversight. Well,
nothing ventured, nothing gained, so we slipped out onto the track and started
doing some very creditable laps until we were stopped and unceremoniously
escorted back off the track. And all that with a stock drophead, mind
you, not even a roadster, let alone one in racing trim!
(22 Apr 05)
{moved from SS Jag page 1 on 12 Jan 04}
The XK120M developed a pinhole leak in the right rear of the petrol (gas) tank.
Unfortunately for me, never having any punctures (no "flats" on Jags!) at that time,
the fuel soaked into the spare since the front of the spare tyre (tire) compartment
was also the back of the petrol tank (no protective rub shield). Well, the gas
swelled the rubber and, when I finally had a puncture, I found it quite impossible to
extricate the wheel. Eventually, I rigged a sort of giant pair of tongs and
worked the spare free when, to my horror, the rubber brought a ¼" piece of the
tank wall with it! I was alone in the driveway, the tank was brim-full, and I
jammed a finger against the hole (oh, how much like the little Dutch boy!) and started
screaming. Eventually my little daughter heard me and called her mother; we
were at a loss until I noticed that the little one was chewing gum. No fair, you
guessed! I drove around with the chewing gum holding back the flammable
flood until I could obtain a scrap of sheet synthetic rubber and cut a small washer,
thread it onto a large diameter, stubby sheet metal screw, and plug the hole.
I hate to admit it, but I forgot all about that jury-rig and sold the car that way!
Sorry, whoever! Here is the boot and the screw-head patch (that tiny white
dot) in digitized copies of my old photos dated October 1965:
(Oct 1965 photos by and © Copyright 1965/2004 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
{moved from SS Jag page 1 on 12 Jan 04}
Oh, yes; the white was silicone rubber goop, added to try to help seal that jury-rig.
Now, how often does one see that complex XK120 gas/petrol filler pictured open?
I also just realized that that light gray line leading out of the trunk/boot comes out of
the fuel tank; it starts in the opening where the lower end of the filler hose has been
displaced and then runs out and down toward the ground; I'd completely forgotten
that that was a piece of clear vinyl tubing I used to slowly siphon all the fuel out of the
tank before effecting the "repair" ("fix" is more like it).)
- - - * - - -
I turned up photos of what I am quite certain was my car, repainted (badly) white,
with the (by then) bedraggled, dirty white top and those accursed chromed wires:
(ca. 1966 photos by and © Copyright 1966/2004 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
Ed Pass's place was on the north side of Route 25A (Northern Boulevard), on a
northwest corner about a ¼-mile east of the Clearview Expressway, as I recall.
Oh, note the difference in tailight housings between the XK120M and the XK140 to its
left; I'd quite forgotten that little detail.
Just for the heck of it, and to hono(u)r Jaguar(s)'s faithfulness to "the look", here's my
friend and former colleague's "pre-owned" 1999 XK8 {previously driven only on
Sundays by a little old lady in Florida - I wonder why the locals call her "Granny
Leadfoot"?} (posed overlooking the entrance to Zach's Bay near the Jones Beach
Marine Theater):
(photo by friend - all rights reserved)
[Thumbnail image - click on picture for full image.]
{moved from SS Jag page 1 on 12 Jan 04}
If you like cars, you've probably been to various salons (not saloons); here's a Jag
salon only a few blocks from my house:
(photo by and © 1956/2001 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
This Jag ya just gotta see! Shades of the catamount I saw in upstate New York
(see my Adirondack page).
I really should stop this nonsense and stick to real Jaguar automobiles, like
this one(?):
Now, you have to admit, that's also some Jag - deadly!
It's the heavily-modified D-type made up for the 1971
movie "Harold and Maude".
As far a modern Jags go, this one is REALLY stretching
a point:
There's a limo office only a few blocks from my house
and they have stretched some pretty odd ducks (SUVs and such) but this is
one of their odder ducks (cats?).
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Classic Jaguar Association.
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