Topic: Solved DAR 6 Jaguar XK 120 customised by Joe Gertler for Lewis Ebling

[D-type]

Horrible isn't it?.  For a point
Who built it?
Who commissioned it?
What is it based on?

[BattlePorQ]

Moderately mutated XK120?

[D-type]

Yes - now just the other two bits to go.  Who and who?

[BERTRAND]

Gertler 120 Custom. Based Jaguar XK120 roadster.  Custom for NY Beer baron, Louis Ebling
for entry in Washington D.C.s prestigious World Motor Sports Shows in the early fifties

[D-type]

Spot on.   A point is on its way
All I can add is that Joe Gertler reportedly later expressed regret for what he had done.
Anyway, here's a later photo sans fins, which looks a lot nicer.  I'd still like to see the frontal treatment though.

[Paul Jaray]

...  I'd still like to see the frontal treatment though.

Here you are:

[D-type]

Thanks - it's in keeping with the rest of the car  - ie equally ugly