Art had invited my grandpa to test at Indy. He died a few weeks later from what I remember my dad telling me. Grandpa raced many different cars for different people during that era. His favorite was the crosley powered jabro 750. The jaguar was special to him though. I would love a copy of the article.
Hello,
My name is Jennifer Hendricks and I am Tom Hendricksā daughter. We talked this past week about the history of the LT3 and were doing a google search when this forum and your discussion came up. We still own the car as part of my Dadās collection and would be interested to hear what you have that may belong with the car. I look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Jennifer Hendricks
Jennifer,
Sent you a PM on the history of LT3.
Bob K.
Wow!!!
This thread began long before I found the list, and is amazing to read, 20 years on!
FTR, LT2 never was in Japan.
Mid 90ās I saw one of the LT cars in a workshop in Oslo, Norway. At least it was claimed to be one of them and certainly looked like it. The owner was (and still is) one of the wealthiest men in Norway.
Could it have been one of them?
Possible: the LTs had a few, unique-to-them details:
-vertically-short doors
-lift-out, louvered bonnet
-one-piece body, including no separate rear wings
Nick,
As far as I know, none of the LTās was ever in Norway. Might be a replica.
Bob K.
I believe the XK 120 in Norway would probably be the one I sold to a man (whose name I forget) in 1986. It was sold originally in Vancouver, Canada. It was an original alloy car, one of about 180 that were made.
LT 1 was also in Vancouver for many years. It was sold back to the man in UK from whom it was purchased. When he sold it to the Vancouver man he requested the right to re-purchase which was honoured.
Always a sure-fire way to ID the LTs:
-Short doors
-Integral front/rear wings
-short bonnet, radiator grille/opening, integral to wings
-all RHD.
There are other indicators, but those are the dead giveaways.
Welcome to the JagNuts!
Rick are you saying you owned one of the original alloy XK120ās ie the 184 LHD cars built further 58 RHD?
Do you have a photo or any other details? thanks terry
Rick,
You are correct w.r.t. LT1. What we know is that in 1968 David Cottingham sold LT1 to Bill Makin of Vancouver, Canada. Many years later in 1977, the car began a āvintage racingā career prepared by Ed Arnold (also in British Columbia), still owned by Bill Makin but driven by Peter Bolingbroke Price who owned a classic car shop at Powell Street, Vancouver. Peter Price had immigrated from England to Vancouver (BC), Canada in 1967 but left Vancouver in 1981 moving to nearby Portland (USA) after which his arrangements with Bill Makin ended. In 1987 David Cottingham, founder of DK Engineering in the UK, asked Makin if he would sell the car back to him, which he did.
Do you have perhaps more memories or information on LT1 in Canada over the period 1968 -1987?
Bob K.
Hi Bob and nice to hear from you. I am always reluctant to put names out on the internet so was purposefully brief in what I said.
I owned Coventry Motors Ltd on Seymour Street which my partner, Gordie Dunderdale and I founded in 1971. I bought him out when he wanted to retire in 1990 and turned over the shop part of the business to Frank DeVivo who ran it as Sovereign Motors for the next 25 years. He has now retired. I kept Coventry going as a sales only operation until 2005 when I, too, retired and now live in Whistler, B.C.
Are you a Vancouver person? Your name isnāt familiar although my ageing memory isnāt that good anymore. Interesting how the internet has changed the world. My neighbour and good friend of about 48 years has an XK120 ots and an XK150 fhc and we were talking about cars the other day. I mentioned that LT 1 was the same colour as his 120 which got me to thinking about it. So I did the google thing.
Yes, most of what you say is correct. Peter Price was a very good friend of mine and we kept in touch for years even after he moved to Portland as a result of a nasty divorce. He was a big guy and I was not surprised to hear of his passing from a heart attack which, if I remember rightly, was while mowing his lawn. His wife, Susie, sold off the Portland shop to a nice young couple who run it as a VW and German car repair business now.
Yes, Peter did most of the work on LT 1 and, yes, Ed Arnold did the body and paint work. After Peter left town Bill would get the car serviced by Cecil at XJ Motors although he would quite often bring it to my shop to get Gordieās advice. When Frank left XJ Motors to take over my shop Bill followed him so I would see both the car and Bill on a regular basis.
About 1987 David Cottingham contacted me through a Swedish broker friend to ask Bill if he would be willing to sell LT 1 back to him. When Bill had bought the car David asked if he would give him that option. There had been some controversy about the camshafts in LT 1 and, I guess, some lingering doubt in Davidās mind about approaching Bill himself. So I contacted Bill and mentioned the previous agreement. Bill paused and then said. āI will honor that agreementā and I gave him Davidās phone number. David sent both my Swedish friend and myself a small āfinders feeā which I thought was a very decent thing for him to do.
That is pretty well all I can remember at this point. If I do think of anything I will let you know.
Regards,
Rick Sladen.
Rick,
Fantastic to learn so many new things about LT1ās period in Canada.
May be I have to disappoint you a bit as Iām living in the Netherlands (almost at the other side of the globe) but nowadays this forum brings people together from all over the world. But I also have friends living close to you in BC.
After years of gathering all kind of information on the subject, I wrote the story on the three LTās which was published in the second half of 2017 in the British Jaguar magazine XK Gazette.
Your story fills in some of the remaining gaps I still had and I will study it first in more detail also using the personal information I received from David Cottingham in 2016. I will then contact you via PM and we can discuss certain items in more detail if you allow me.
Thanks once more Rick!
Bob Knynenburg
Hi Terry. Please email me at ruskor@telus.net . Iām not good with computers so donāt know how to by-pass this web site. Thanks, Rick
Hi Bobā¦please email me at ruskor@telus.net Iām not very good with web sites and donāt know how to by-pass it. Thanks, Rick
Blake,
Iāve recently been building 1/43 models of several of the 1950ās SCCA racers, with a specific interest in cars that raced in and around Indiana. At the September 1953 race at Stout Field, Charles Wallace drove the car your Grandfather usually drove. Do you possibly have any pictures of the car from that event or others when it ran with a #75? I only have one image of the car with Wallace driving but itās mainly a shot of him in the cockpit with no other detail. If youāve got anything you could share that I could reference for a build, that would be appreciated! It looks like youāve done well in possibly tracking down the owner and the carās location!
Completely forgot this thread!!!