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An XK120, with one owner from new, and costing £180 to buy, has seen sold at auction for £77,000. The owner, a mechanic, has covered over 300,000 miles in the car. The XK120 was the first car that Malcolm Sayer worked on when he joined Jaguar. The 120 was the speed of the car - over 120 mph. He was asked to get the speed up so the car could be used in competitions. He did this by the use of aerodynamics and the car was know known as the C type. - the competition car. He increased the speed that there was never an XK130. It was the motoring press who stared to call it the C type, and it was followed by the D Type, the XK140, and the XK150, known as the E type. The D type won 3 Le Mans 24 hour endurance races , and reached 196 miles per hour on the Mulsanne Strait at Le Mans. The style of following Jaguars sports cars -- look at the radiator grill on the d type - has been repeated in following XK models. Regards, Peter. A 1951 XK120 below.

If you think changing the headlight bulbs on the face lifted XF would be the same easy 3 bolts as the previous model your in for a shock! First off as before the headlamp unit must be removed, however once the bolts have been removed the unit will not fit though the hole. (not even close) also the bolt that you could see inside the wheel arch is now behind the arch cover Remove the two bolts from the front of the unit remove the three bolts on the inside of the wheel arch and cable tie back to the wheel Remove the two bolts on the inside of the arch cover, one for the headlamp unit and one that clamps the bumper to the wing Remove the five bolts that hold the front grill to the car to allow the grill to flex out Pull the bumper at the wing down only as there are two locating pins attached to the bumber The unit can now be removed but dont forget to unplug the unit. My 2011 face lifted has D3S Bulbs not the DS1 That Halfords help desk had on file for the newer shape upto 2014 After all that changing the bulb will seem like child play.