Current XK120 colours

[Nickolas (Nick Saltarelli)]

@Daniel_Cusick

Wasn’t Mediterranean Blue a single year 140 color?

Possibly. The car listed with that current colour - 679661 - doesn’t include an entry under original colour so possibly, even likely, was changed.

XK Data - 679661 - Jaguar XK120, XK140, XK150 information, articles, photos...

I like Pastel Green Metallic but would prefer silver, both ostensibly not offered for the 1954 model year. Then again, no metallics were standard offerings from December 1952 to August 1954, though there was this from Rob Reilly in another recent thread:

@Rob_Reilly

For the synthetic lacquer era we could look in Clausager’s XK120 book at the paint records, which lists only one DHC in Bronze, one late OTS in metallic blue, and no others in metallics at all that would be identified as built in the post-cellulose-enamel era.
OTS and FHC of course cross over the boundary, and this record does not delineate if and/or whether any of the metallics listed were done in the later period.
Clausager states specifically that the six metallics were deleted between Oct and Nov '52. If any had continued to be offered as a special, I think he would have mentioned it, as his purpose as a historian was to identify the color history as best he could determine from the records.

This xkdata entry, for a 1954 XK120SE OTS whose chassis number precedes mine by 26 cars, is interesting

XK Data - S674406 - Jaguar XK120, XK140, XK150 information, articles, photos...

It lists Silver as the original colour, gold as the new one. Also mentioned is the availability of a JDHT certificate for the car but there’s no scan of the certificate so likely an error.