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1957 Jaguar XKSS: Living & Breathing Through Fire



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You’ve got to give Jaguar credit for even trying to do this, let alone actually accomplishing it with such flare. What you see here is literally a brand new, 1957 Jaguar XKSS. It’s not a restoration. It’s not a reproduction. Jag went and built one, piece by piece, and the story gets better from there.
First, understand that what we’re looking at is a one-off car that has been authentically produced to the exact 1957 specifications by Jaguar Land Rover Classic?s expert craftsmen. Nine examples will be hand-built in the UK with deliveries to customers beginning in 2017.
Now, I’m not saying that you should sell a kidney or something to get one, or even go ahead and marry one of the nine new owners. Nope, I wouldn’t say that at all. But what I am saying is that if a person were to do that, you’d get no judgmental opinions from me. Nope. None at all. Outstanding Origins
Regularly called the world?s first supercar, the original XKSS was originally a road-going conversion of the drop dead gorgeous and Le Mans-winning D-type, which was built from 1954-1956. In 1957, nine cars set aside for export to North America were lost in a fire at Jaguar?s Browns Lane factory in the British Midlands.
Pour one out for our Browns Lane homies.
So the total number of XKSS cars built was a scant 16 examples.
In a completely class move, earlier this year, Jaguar announced that its Classic division woul...
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