That's all very well but it doesn't help with my white wheel wells!!! :-)
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Curt/Nancy Arndt <cnaarndt at gmail.com>wrote:
> Listers,
>
> We know that Blair Harbor's # 23 the very first production car was all
> aluminum, Birmabright to be specific, so we can possibly conclude that the
> other cars that came from Jensen in that batch, numbers 21 and 22 were also
> all aluminum. I believe that the lorry's that transported the cars from
> Jensen to Longbridge held at least three cars at a time? Someone correct
> me if I'm wrong.
>
> I have been told that only the first 50 cars were aluminum but I
> personally don't believe that number. Don't ask me why.
>
> FYI it's the first 200 XK-120 Jaguars that were all aluminum.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Curt
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Derek Job <derek.c.job at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Michael,
>>
>> I knew about the 20 pre-production cars but read somewhere that the very
>> early production cars continued with it. I guess it was just the boot and
>> bonnets that were continued.
>>
>> Derek
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