Description
Bare metal body rebuild in 2019, new carpets and headlining. Trico folding sunroof.
Braking (Dunlop discs), steering, suspension & damping, cooling, fuel, ignition systems rebuilt/ replaced. Wire wheels (competition rears) replacement rear springs include an extra leaf. Works completed by Paul Roach Jaguar.
CKL Developments have very recently completed work on the original Moss gearbox, also installing a new clutch, master and slave cylinders. Further work includes re-chroming of radiator grill and other items by Doug Taylor in Somerset and maintenance & sundry repairs by the Weald Service Station in Goudhurst Kent.
The car is accompanied by a portfolio of documentation which include invoices for works, the Jaguar Heritage Certificate and a Certificate of Vehicle Authenticity from the Coventry Transport Museum together with the DVLA confirmation of restoration of the original Coventry registration number & V5C.
When Jaguar introduced the MK2 in 1959 these earlier cars became retrospectively known as MK1’s. They had first become available in 1955 with 2. 4 litre engine capacity, but it was with the launch of the 3. 4 version in 1957 that these cars really gained the power which the chassis deserved. They still regularly beat the opposition on the track in historic racing, as they did in period in the hands of Roy Salvadori, Stirling Moss, Tommy Sopwith and, of course, Mike Hawthorn.
On the road their performance sparkled too…after all this was the first 120 MPH Jaguar saloon. All in all, a 3. 4 litre MK1 with manual transmission and overdrive still provides practicality and excitement in equal measure.
UWK 260 combines these attributes, being a good example of the type. This car was privately exported (to the USA) by the first owner some 2-3 years after manufacture. It was later repatriated to the UK.
