Topic: Solved - NEH 414: 1954 Jaguar XK140 Special

[Carnut]

So there you go; no mention of Lister.
I wonder how that one got started.
Thanks for the detective work!

[Allan L]

So there you go; no mention of Lister.
I wonder how that one got started.
Thanks for the detective work!

But Tindall had a Lister as well!
And just to add complexity, there is another car called the Freddie Owen Special. The car, designed and built by Freddie Owen, was constructed in 1958 / 9 before the E type was ever launched - it was originally powered by a Triumph 1800 engine.  It looks like:

[Carnut]

But I think if the puzzle car is a Lister Jaguar it would certainly have been mentioned in the Classic Cars For Sale ad, don't you?
So I'll leave the Lister bit off the heading unless I see definitive proof otherwise!

[Allan L]

But I think if the puzzle car is a Lister Jaguar it would certainly have been mentioned in the Classic Cars For Sale ad, don't you?
So I'll leave the Lister bit off the heading unless I see definitive proof otherwise!

We've proved several times over that it is a special-bodied XK140 and has no Lister connection. The Classic Cars For Sale ad is pretty rough stuff, but it makes no claims that it is anything other than a special. XK140 had a chassis, not a floor pan and I can't think what the "usual XK steel panels" that he replaced were, once it had a body like that.
I looked up David Hobbs' car in Paul Skilliter's Jaguar Sports Cars, but it gets only a very short reference in the text. However there is a five-photo set of the Oulton Park accident  in which you can see it's TAC743 and then there's a photo of it as per this puzzle "rebodied by Dick Tindell for Freddie Owen"

[Carnut]

Here's another picture of this interesting car:

[barrett]

A period shot of the car here at Brighton some time in the 1960s

[Carnut]

Later 60's judging by the Jensen Interceptor in the background..