1952 Jaguar XK120 Roadster
- Colour
- Birch Grey metallic
A left-hand drive, American-market 1952 Jaguar XK120 Roadster, built on 19 August 1952 and originally retailed through a Los Angeles dealership on Sunset Boulevard. The car retains its matching-numbers chassis, engine, and body. It returned to the United Kingdom in the late 1990s and subsequently underwent a comprehensive nut-and-bolt restoration requiring some 1,400 labour hours, leaving it in very good to excellent overall condition and finished in Birch Grey metallic with a red leather interior.
Ownership
- 2020-09-20Auction saleEstimate £80,000 – £90,000
- 1952 →Factory deliveryCharles Homburg Jr dealership customer (original US buyer via Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles)partial documentation
Vehicle was delivered new through a Los Angeles dealership on Sunset Boulevard; this represents the first retail ownership in the American market.
- Date unknownAcquisition unknownUK-based owner who undertook full restorationpartial documentation
This owner commissioned and personally performed much of a comprehensive nut-and-bolt rebuild totalling roughly 1400 labour hours, with some elements contracted out to outside specialists.
- Date unknownAcquisition unknownUK private collection (current vendor)partial documentation
Car is held within a significant UK-based private collection; vendor provided the seller's condition assessment accompanying this auction entry.
Competition
No competition history extracted from the catalogue.
Maintenance & restoration
- —Restoration
Full nut-and-bolt restoration carried out over approximately 1,400 hours of labour, largely by the then owner with some elements outsourced to outside specialists. The original chassis, engine, and body were all retained throughout.
Work was completed roughly three years before the auction consignment date; exact year not stated in the prose.
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