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    This is my recent picked up car : a 56 Jaguar XK 140 DHC (drop head coupe).

    I just found out that Raymond Loewy in 1955 also designed a car based on a Jaguar XK 140 :

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    Someone might be interested in this connection, here is the story : http://www.carstyling.ru/de/entry/Jaguar_XK140_1955_Raymond_Loewy/


    Walter

    80 Fiat Spider
    63 Lark Regal 4 Dr. sold 2015
    60 Hawk sold 2017 in England
    56 Golden Hawk
    56 Corvette (John Cougar Mellencamp's C1)
    68 Volvo P1800S
    56 Jaguar XK 140 DHC

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  • #2
    I don't think Raymond improved the looks of the Jag XK140.
    Skip Lackie

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    • #3
      I love a xk 120. Loewy's version is the least good looking thing his studio ever did, though it has good general lines the hood is just wrong!
      Diesel loving, autocrossing, Coupe express loving, Grandpa Architect.

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      • #4
        "I don't think Raymond improved the looks of the Jag XK140."

        Alas, he hardly EVER seemed to have improved an existing car.
        Thinking here of that late '50's Caddy that was for sale a few years ago, and some others.

        His automobile work (and yes, I know this was largely Bourke et al, and the Palm Springs Avanti team) for Studebaker may have been his best?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Santosh View Post
          This is my recent picked up car : a 56 Jaguar XK 140 DHC (drop head coupe).
          The steering wheel is on the wrong side; even in Germany!!

          Craig

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          • #6
            Originally posted by 8E45E View Post
            The steering wheel is on the wrong side; even in Germany!!

            Craig
            Probably not in the countries where most of them were sold!

            Mark
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            • #7
              Originally posted by S2Deluxe View Post
              Probably not in the countries where most of them were sold!

              Mark
              I would need to see the statistics on that. A lot of them were exported from England to countries that used left hand drive, primarily the USA.
              Gary L.
              Wappinger, NY

              SDC member since 1968
              Studebaker enthusiast much longer

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              • #8
                Originally posted by studegary View Post
                I would need to see the statistics on that.
                I may have been overly eager, in expressing my assumption? If I only keep my assumptions to myself, will anyone else help me see their true error or validity? It would also be to my benefit, if I had some statistics?

                Originally posted by studegary View Post
                A lot of them were exported from England to countries that used left hand drive, primarily the USA.
                No doubt, many were exported to countries that used left hand drive? In 56, wouldn't most of them have been so equipped? Would they have been a majority of the total production? That wasn't my first assumption, but my first assumptions aren't always right? What ever the case, the steering wheel is where it is and I don't think any thing about it is either right or wrong? It just is!

                Mark
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                • #9
                  I agree that the XK120-150 was much better looking than the Loewy redesign. If money were no object an XK150 would be in my driveway (with a stock body).
                  Joe Roberts
                  '61 R1 Champ
                  '65 Cruiser
                  Eastern North Carolina Chapter

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