The new Jaguar HKSS made its world debut in Los Angeles last November and will be available for sale in 2017.
Nine of these one off Jaguars will be hand-built in the UK. This will be the first genuine Jaguar XKSS to be built in almost 60 years. The beautiful Jaguar is finished in Sherwood green paint.
Often referred to as the world’s first supercar, the XKSS was originally made by Jaguar as a road-going conversion of the Le Mans-winning D-type, which was built from 1954-1956. In 1957, nine cars earmarked for export to North America were lost in a fire at Jaguar’s Browns Lane factory in the British Midlands; meaning just 16 examples of XKSS were built.
The body of the XKSS is made from magnesium alloy, as it was in 1957, and because the original styling bucks do not exist, Jaguar Classic produced a new, bespoke styling buck based on the original bodies from the 1950s. The bodies of the nine new cars will be formed on this buck, using a traditional process called hand-wheeling.
Myclassic News enjoys witnessing Auto manufacturers’ bringing back the past.
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