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£92,000
1953 Jaguar XK 120 Drophead Coupé
UK • 24 Oct 2019
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This 1953 Jaguar XK120 Drophead Coupé is a left-hand-drive model finished in Birch Grey over red leather. It features just two owners from new, nearly sixty years of prior single ownership, and is highly original, including original paintwork and interior.
Condition
8
The car retains original paintwork and interior, the leather shows only limited wear and boasts incredible patina, and the headlining for the convertible roof is in remarkably outstanding order. A file of documentation with the car retains early U.S. road registrations and receipts for maintenance going back to the 1950s.
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S 677020
LHD
United Kingdom
914 YUT
1953
Auction
Description
This left-hand-drive Jaguar XK120 Drophead Coupé, finished in Birch Grey over red leather, was built 12 March 1953 and dispatched to Los Angeles, California, on 26 March 1953 through the West Coast distributor, Charles Hornburg.
As designated by its chassis number, S 677020, this is a Special Equipment model, making it the 20th drophead coupé built, the sequence for these starting at 677001.
It was ordered by Bertha A.
Brown in Lake Forest, Illinois, on 28 August 1954 and remained with her family, passing to her son Charles, until 2013, when it was purchased by the consignor, a very well-respected collector of British sports cars.
A file of documentation with the car retains early U.S. road registrations and receipts for maintenance going back to the 1950s, and, alluding to the family interest in motoring, the car still wears a Sports Car Club of America sticker in its windscreen.
Close inspection of the car today, both in terms of paint and its interior, seems to suggest that the...
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£12,786
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RM Sotheby's
1 Classic Car Drive, Blenheim, Ontario, N0P 1A0, Canada
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