Jaguar XKSS

The Jaguar XKSS was a road-going version of the Jaguar D-Type racing car. After Jaguar withdrew from racing the company offered the remaining, unfinished chassis as the roadgoing Jaguar XKSS, by making changes to the racers: adding an extra seat, another door, a full-width windshield and folding top, as concessions to practicality. However, on the evening of 12 February 1957, a fire broke out at the Browns Lane plant destroying nine of the twenty-five cars that had already been completed or were semi-completed. Production is thought to have included 53 customer D-types, 18 factory team cars, and 16 XKSS versions. Following Jaguar's withdrawal from competition at the end of the 1955 season, a number of completed and partially complete...