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01 The Porsche-Piëch family is a prominent Austrian-German family descending from Ferdinand Porsche. Its members control Porsche SE and have a majority voting right over Volkswagen AG. It is not common knowledge though that Paul Piëch and his parents were friends with Jaguar's head engineer Bill Heynes. Their children holidayed together. Paul raced many cars including an XK120 for third at Silverstone

02 What do you do with an old Jaguar advertising canvas? Wrap a house being moved - of course!

04 This modern official 'continuation' XK-SS failed to sell at Pebble Beach in 2022. A continuation D-Type made a little over $1,000,000. Disappointing all round and not a paying investment at this time.

05 The Talbot-Lago T150C SS ordered new by the first S.S. Jaguar 100 winner, Australian Freddie McEvoy, appeared at Pebble Beach in 2022 and won its class plus the Nethercutt Award.

06 It's sad to report the passing of serious

03 It's the top of the 'Mountain' at Bathurst in 1959 as Frank Matich in the Leeton Motors D-Type (XKD526) gets ready to pass Ron Phillips in the Cooper Jaguar. The latter car remains in Brisbane with Frank Moore having been raced by the Whitehead brothers at Le Mans in 1955. It was the first of the second series Cooper Jaguars built and displayed at the Paris Motor Show (Salon) that year.

13 This Woody-type MkVII was used by Australian Norton motorcycle champion Jack Ahearn. It was built in England by Paddy Driver.

14/15/16 Tony Gaze in England stands on the roof of his converted MkVII. It is also at his home on the Welsh border. It was created to tow his craft when competing for Australia in gliding championships. Tony's 19 year old brother Scott was killed in a Spitfire early in 1941, and this trophy struck by his family in his memory.

Sydney collector Kerry Manolas at the age of 84. He owned very many cars including C-Type XKC032. Ian Cummins is at the wheel with him.

07 A high quality image of the 4.2 E-Type factory racer built for the lateHugh Bryson. It raced just a few times before Hugh bought Bob Jane's Mk2, and has been in the McMahon family for many decades.

08 Boats fitted with XK engines for racing were very popular in the 1950s and '60s. We would like to hear any reader's stories about them.

09 Como Park in Melbourne was the stage for many JCCV Concours d'Elegance events. We are not sure of the year this was taken, but the S.S.1 Tourer and Airline have always been rarities but not as highly prized then.

10 This is the new factory-built 'Continuation' Lightweight E-Type which failed to sell at Pebble Beach. The highest bid was just over $1m.

11/12 Daimler SP250 sports cars are V8 powered and have a fibreglass body. After Jaguar purchased Daimler in 1960 it continued production of the SP250 but with body strengthening improvements.

2654 cars were built (1453 RHD) and proved to be popular race cars. The Geoghegan brothers won the 1962 Six Hours race at Bathurst in black chassis #104029, and others were raced in Australia by Max Brunninghausen, Peter Whitelaw, Clyde Hodgins, Jim Abbott and others.

Seen here are Stirling Moss and Graham Hill parading at Warwick Farm in CDF 939, and socialite Virginia Lichezzolo racing at the same track. The Brunninghausen car seems to have began its competition life in the hands of Jim Abbott in Victoria. It was then British Racing Green, but after going to Sydney it became red and was raced for many years.