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An SS Jaguar radiator badge The only fixed head coupé A publicity shot of CKV250 outside the SS Cars building in 1937. This is considered to be the first recorded use of the Jaguar 'leaper' mascot. [4] A 1938 SS Jaguar 100 - 2 1⁄2 Litre. The SS Jaguar 100 is a British 2-seat sports car built between 1936 and 1939 by SS Cars Ltd of Coventry ...
Founded by Ray Finch in 1964, Finch is a car restoration company that also builds 1939 SS100 Jaguar and 1959 Ferrari Testa Rossa replicas. It is based in Mount Barker, South Australia. The business was originally founded by Ray Finch in Mount Gambier, South Australia in 1965.
The cars were marketed as the Jaguar 1½ litre, Jaguar 2½ litre and Jaguar 3½ litre with the Mark IV name later applied in retrospect to separate this model from the succeeding Mark V range. The range was a return to production of the SS Jaguar 1½ litre, 2½ litre and 3½ litre models produced by SS Cars from 1936 to 1940. [ 1 ]
Swallow Sidecar Company, [note 1] Swallow Sidecar and Coachbuilding Company, and Swallow Coachbuilding Company were trading names used by Walmsley & Lyons, partners and joint owners of a British manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars and automobile bodies in Blackpool, Lancashire (later Coventry, Warwickshire), before incorporating a company in 1930 to own their business, which they named Swallow ...
His answer was an overhead-valve design that produced 102 bhp and it was this engine that launched the new SS Jaguar sports and saloon cars in 1936. The SS Jaguar 2½-litre saloon with its 102 bhp six-cylinder Weslake-designed cross-flow ohv cylinder head on its Standard engine caused a sensation when it was launched at a trade luncheon for ...
Jaguar: SS 100: 1936-1940 Roadster England Jaguar: XK120: 1948-1954 Roadster, Coupé England Jaguar: XK140: 1954-1957 Roadster, Coupé England Jaguar: XK150: 1957-1961 Roadster, Coupé England Jaguar: XKSS: 1957, 2016 Roadster England Jaguar: XJ 13: 1966 Coupé England A prototype racing car Jaguar: XJ-S: 1976-1996 Coupé, Targa, Convertible ...
Jaguar SS100 Roadster Saoutchik (1938) Also in 1938, a more conservative roadster was created on the chassis of the Jaguar SS100. Between 1938 and 1940, 190 examples were built with a 2½ liter engine and just 118 with a 3½ liter engine. Most received the reserved, very sporty roadster factory body.
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