1950s XK Jaguars

These cars all competed in the AMOC 50sSports Cars Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2015.

This car is not listed in the programme of the event, but it's the Jaguar XK120 of Siamak Siassis and should have the 6-cylinder inline 3,442cc Jaguar XK6 engine. 12,055 of these cars were made between 1949 and 1954.

Another car not shown in the programme, this is the 1955 Jaguar XK140 of Alexis de Beaumont, chassis S804523, and has the 3,781cc version of the Jaguar XK6 engine. The Jaguar XK140 was produced between 1954 and 1957, and was only offered with the 3,442cc version of the engine, so the larger engine must be a subsequent replacement.

This is the 1959 Jaguar XK150 of Andrew Moore and has the 3,781cc version of the XK6 engine. The XK150 was produced from 1957 to 1961, initially with the 3,442cc engine, and the 3,781cc unit was offered as an alternative on the S and SE models from 1959.

This is the 3,781cc Jaguar XK6 engine of the 1951 Jaguar XK120 of Chris Keith-Lucas, the larger unit  replacing the original 3,442cc engine.

Jaguar XK120

Here are three Jaguar XK120s that took part in the AMOC '50s Sports Cars race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2015.

This is Andrew Wenman's 1952 car which the programme of the event says had a 3.8 litre engine instead of the 3.4 litre unit of the original XK120.

This is the 1951 car of Chris Keith-Lucas, again with the larger 3.8 litre engine.

This is another 1951 car, that of Simiak Siassi, and it's a replica of the three lightweight Jaguar XK120s that were prepared for the 1951 Le Mans 24 Hour race when it was thought that the new C-Types would not be ready in time. The XK120s did not race, however, as the C-Types were available for the race which was won by one of those cars, driven by Peter Walker and Peter Whitehead.

You can see all three of these cars in a couple of the photographs I took at Britten's chicane during the race when I featured an Austin Healey 100/4 on 7 March 2018, though Simiak Siassi's car is almost hidden behind a blue Jaguar XK140 Coupe.