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Jaguar XK 120 alloy Roadster

K500’s Simon Kidston says, ‘It’s the car that set the scene for Jaguar’s emergence in the Fifties as a world player. Affordable and fast enough to win thousands of races, the first alloy-bodied XK120 also helped put Stirling Moss on the map. Barely lighter than a steel car (it had a wooden frame), alloy XK120S – often chopped-up club racers – have been rescued from obscurity in the recent boom. Twice at the top of the charts, the first car to the US, chassis 670005, was sold for $385k in 2011, then $451k in 2013. Sir Stirling would approve of that...’