This Jaguar averaged 100mph for an entire week in 1952! Special Road test!
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- LWK 707 is a car I've read about since I was a child. It averaged 100mph for an entire week in 1952, with drivers including Stirling Moss and Leslie Johnston - whose idea it was. This 1952 Jaguar XK120 fixed head coupe remains in fully functioning condition today and can be seen at @JaguarHeritage in Warwickshire. The onboard sounds are utterly delicious! #enginesound #roadtest #classiccars
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Hi Ian glad you enjoyed driving LWK. It’s a complete honey that one. I know you were being really respectful with it and i thank you, but we’ll have to have you back so you can hold on to the gears a bit longer. She loves to rev that one (and NUB) so it’s fine to give it some more revs before you change up! And the noise when you do is just ❤❤❤❤😂 This is why we keep them operating - cars are meant to be driven not just languishing in a museum!
Ha! Thanks Neil. I was just too in awe to really open her up. So good that these are proper, living history.
@@HubNut It started to sound proper throaty at 3500rpm 😁
Ian, you jammy beggar, not what I wanted to write, but this is a family channel!
@@HubNut Bravo Ian, most of us vicarious venturers would give their left nut & sprocket for a blast in that little beastie. Absolutely HubNut btw - nothing makes you feel more like living than driving something that terrifies you. Think my worst experience was in the late 90's driving a complete shed of a Jag 420 from Sutton in Ashfield to Newark with no brakes - only the handbrake. Of course when I got there, the proposed customer identified it as a "nail" and I had to drive it all the way back again, pausing only to run out of fuel. Happy days...🤪
What a montser my brother had a 52 roadster
Gorgeous ❤️ it. I remember seeing that car when we visited the museum a few years ago. Must get back and take another look. Good to see cars being driven. What a sound! Give me a patinated, well looked after car that’s been used any day over one that’s never ‘lived’ and is too perfect.
THANK YOU and Jaguar Heritage for this.
I could listen to that engine for hours...! Just superb. It wouldn't sound out of place in an aircraft! 👍
Lovely Ian,a real joy to behold ,and it brilliant when watched with headphones sings nicely.
The amount of records the famed XK straight 6 engine holds , as well as its motorsports achievements must exceed any other engine . A subject worth an article on its own I should imagine. Other engines would be the Ferrari V12 , Alfa Romeo Twin cam , Fiat (Lampredi) Twin cam - if you include the Lancia link rally victories . However , it brings back memories of the late John Bolster , who was driving the “economy “ model XJ series 2. 3.4 litre, described the XK engine as one of wonders of the world. Need anybody say any more.
Lovely car.
No bloody wonder you have been feeling drained! What a bloody honour! This is what you have worked for. Congratulations basically! Sounds epic. Never meet your heroes they say...pah! Great video. Cheers
That exhaust note was absolutely incredible but the XK always did sound well whatever it was used in.
What a car, still one of Jag's finest creations.
The noise from that engine is just so, British !! You can recognise it the moment you hear it.
It held the record until beaten by SAAB in 1986 with the SAAB 9000 2.0 turbo averaging 134mph for 20 days solid day and night. Still holds the record to this day.
During the forty day long Mercury Comet reliability run in 1964 at Daytona, the fastest Comet averaged 112mph over 100,000 miles.
Thanks. Didn't know about the Mercury thing.
Is that the one with an old Triumph engine?
Saab very much went their own way with that engine but yes, same starting point.
@@davidpeters6536 No. the SAAB B202/B204/B234 are nothing to do with the old Triumph engine. The engines listed here can make 450bhp with no physical modifications.
Years and years ago there was a TV documentary about Stirling Moss and he was a bit of a gadget freak and inventor. His house was full of gizmos including one which I remember, a heated loo seat.
the loo seat if i remember was supercharged
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Nice one Ian. For me, the XK120 FHC has always been one of the ultimate cars. Sadly I missed my chance to purchase one when they were 'reasonably' priced. Thanks for this feature, this car is great, the range was brilliant.
For me it was big fun to see the rev counter working anti clockwise. A dashboard like an old aeroplane. Awesome!
I can't believe you got to drive this legend for us. Thanks Ian
I heard a story that when driving the Mille Miglia Stirling Moss was convinced he could brake later therefore he could get round a certain corner faster so he closed his eyes counted to ten before he braked, gaining extra tenths...
Don't know whether it's true but it's a great story
In 10 seconds the car would have travelled hundreds of yards, so either sir Stirling was braking way too early to start with or maybe 2 seconds has been turned to 10 seconds over the period of time.
Brilliant review Ian, what a beautiful looking Jaguar, and what a beautiful noise it makes.
No modern cars come anywhere near looking this beautiful. A stunning car and a great review as always Ian.
Ian, I don't mind at all that you go on trips like this, I'd like to.
What a beautiful sound the engine makes when the revs increase, goosebumps.
Driven by men who flew Spitfires, Lancasters and Hurricanes during WW2.
Great review, Ian. The sound of the XK, pure music! ❤
Hi Ian, way back between 1984 and 1999 I worked in a tiny 4 man mechanical engineering workshop in Portsmouth. During 84-86 I was giving the task of manufacturing parts for the Nissan Le Mans cars mainly RV 84-86. Suspension , engine mounts etc machined in one piece from various materials. If I remember correctly the cars were tested on banked tracks in the USA where the average speed was 180 mph. Also from 83-86 machined parts for F1 Ferrari, Benetton and March engineering.
Hi Hubnut. You're doing fewer road tests thesedays it seems, and I've been missing them. But to make up for it, you've delivered us this cracker! Cheers.
That is absolutely a HubNut car, because all of us can dream. A great story, and well told.
Fantastic video Ian of a truly beautiful car. I think the FHC versions of both the XK120 and 140 are the prettiest looking cars. Now, a favour, when you see Matt from Furious Driving next could you please explain a ‘fly off’ hand brake. He calls the upright, pre war, handbrakes (those that look like points levers from a mechanical interlocking signal box) fly off. I scream at the screen every time he does it. 😬
Ian, that sounds like a very good day at the office! What a special car that is and it’s a great place to visit.
This is a Hubnut car. Its old, biege, fun, and has special wipers. So there you go.
120's are a majestic beast. I actually prefer the looks to an E-type. Very good
What a car! You are a lucky bugger sometimes Ian.
Magnificent motor car. Legendary history.Your a lucky man Ian
Absaloutly fantastic video Ian ❤👍 she's absaloutly stunning what a car the shape the sound amazing brilliant
Fantastic car! The start of a great heritage of Jaguar sportscars and racing cars. Thank you Ian, and to the JDHT for letting you drive it and film it for all of us to enjoy (and envy).
One question though, what are the markers on the speedo?
Markers are for kmh in case she's on an overseas adventure.
@@HubNut Ah thank you Ian, much appreciated 🙂
Christmas Eve 2004. I stopped at a Bunnings Hardware (Australia) to grab a laundry cupboard for my mother. I parked my hatch next to an XK120 and admired it for a couple of minutes. Then the owner came out of the store with a trolley full of large items. They didn’t fit, so I offered to throw them in my hatch and follow him home (as it turned out, one of two ways I could’ve chosen to go to my destination). I threw him my keys to load up while I grabbed the cupboard for mum. When I came out, he refused to hand over my keys. Instead, giving me the keys to his XK! 😍
The trip was about fifteen minutes of bliss through curves and over crests at 120km/h! Oh the symphony! The torque!! What a magnificent Christmas Eve to remember! 😃
It would have been driven 16,850 miles in that week, to average 100.3 mph. Most modern cars cannot tolerate that amount of work in a week without needing serious servicing. It's a fine testament to the skills of the designers, engineers and drivers of 71 years ago.
I plead guilty to jealousy. I wish jaguar were still special like they used to be. So many beautiful cars over the decades.
She is a lovely car. I love the colour of this car as it does make a change of seeing XK120's in the usual red, white, silver colours.
That xk engine is something else. No other engine sounds like that. Like an aircraft engine...
That design epitomizes the elegant design of the great British cars. Great look. Must a great dream drive. and Great fun.
What a sound. It wouldn't be a British car if it didn't have a wonky Smith's rev counter either.
What an absolutely glorious noise! Starting with a fluff from the carbs, the whines of the gears take over, then the growl from the throttle body on the SU and the gradual increase in pitch and volume of the burble from the tail pipes that becomes the Lyon's roar at 2500rpm and more....oh, what an aural symphony! The car itself is a beautiful thing to behold and I can well imagine the aroma of the aged leather, old varnish / heated wood, bakelite and the hessian, kapok and horse hair seat stuffing / sound proofing. The smell always takes me back to my childhood when I knew which car my parents had driven in to collect me from my grandparents by the way they smelled when they first walked in. The Daimler 2.5 V8 was always my favourite from the aromatic perspective and it was so distinctive from the Austin A30 or MkII Cortina GT they also had at the time. To be honest, I would expect that the heavy steering you mentioned would become lighter and easier to work with as the speed increased like most other unassisted steering-boxes of the period, but yes, from personal experience they become very touchy and almost over-responsive the faster you get! One has to remember too that this would have felt "normal" back in the day and just something the driver took in their stride as they piloted the big cat along.....but a week and 16,000 miles of it? Yeah, that still deserves a LOT of respect!
Sounds glorious
Awesome car. Yes Mr. Hubnut is allowed to swan around in a posh car because we get to ride along. It's a sunny morning in Seattle to match the video and I get to ride in a classic car, hear the classic Hubnut closing sound effect and a bit of classical music to boot.
It is a bit of a tweed flat cap profile but given the price, it could also be a speed stretched bowler in profile.
It's not often that you get goosebumps listening to a car on a RUclips video, but here we are.
That has a sound all of its own a bit like a scania v8 lol, love it.
Interesting to see this car again 😃Remember first seeing it at Browns Lane about 30 years ago. We went to a JEC family day at the factory one Sunday. The paint was a bit 'furry' and the leather was a bit worn (since restored), but fabulous to see. My 8 and 12 year old boys were able to sit in this one, NUB120 and Sir William's brown XJ6! They were in awe and very careful - telling off some other kids who jumped up and down on the drivers seat! I was also able to take a photo of my Jaguar 240 in the original factory entrance. Great memory. Well driven 😃
Pleased to say NUB and the brown XJ6 are still in the collection. I drove the XJ6 for Classic Car Weekly some years ago. So long ago that Browns Lane was still there!
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What a unique & interesting vehicle indeed a really good video well done 👌👌
Thank you. I’ve loved the look of these since the 60s, when I would walk past a house with two, a coupe & drop head, in their open carport on the way to school.
Looked like great fun! Back when these were new, my Mom, while working for her Dad's auto repair shop in Washington, D.C., got the enviable job of test-driving at least a few "XKs" after repairs...they repaired all the Diplomats' cars, and got to know Renaults, Citroens, Jaguars, and even Tatras, long before they were anything near household words in the States...It's possible I have an old Road & Track magazine, from my Dad's collection, ca. 1952; I vaguely recall a test of a Jag in that issue...Thanks again for taking us for a delightful spin!
I've read about that car and others that make up the wonderful Jaguar story since I was a kid. Then you get people like Moss mixed into the story and it all becomes the stuff of legend. What a privilege to be able to actually drive the cars that did these things. Thank you for sharing with us. How could we not watch?
It looks like that steering box needs adjustment, you shouldn't need to correct it quite so much as that. Beautiful old motor.
Wonderful video. Marvellous stuff.
Its something I consider the spitfire (plane) of the car world....the sights, sounds and smells....
Phil Hill started his professional racing career driving one of these. No one talks about this. Later on he would even drive factory Ferraris and Mercedes.
Very envious of you driving that XK Ian! bet that was an experience you`ll not forget...lovely lines and shape love any Jag me! ....sadly cant afford to run one but there we are! cheers! that was a good video buddy!
I saw LWK at Gaydon while attending the monthly Jaguar Breakfast Club last Saturday. Hundreds of lovely Jaguars in the sunshine. 😎🌞
Wow, what a treat. I had the good fortune to get a go in a 120 dhc a few years back and was amazed at how at home it felt in modern traffic (I wasn’t steering!!) and how it zipped upto 70+ on the nearby dual carriageway with out any drama at all. You have to pinch yourself when you remember this is a 70 year old car - truly amazing. Wish I had snapped one up years ago when a tatty fhc was maybe £4K (early 90s?). Great vid, really shows how lovely these cars are.
Absolutely love XK120's... Prefer them to an E Type...
They have a sort of pre war 1920's Art deco look to them...They're like a cut price Bugatti Type 57... And that's very HubNut!
you lucky boy ! ... modern cars are amazing but this car came from a mythical time in life ... i think it would
have been nice to experienced such times!
My very favorite of the XKs. Wonderful car. Compare this to an open exhaust Audi/Mercedes/BMW/Whatsoever of today: The modern machines are just loud and produce an awful noise. This old Jag has a sound. Very nice.
Nope gotta be the Xk 140 for me!
When I was working on the post. One of my customers had a Xk 160, ran it as a daily driver, parked outside!
Wasn't so long ago either maybe 20 yrs back, lived in an ordinary cul- de -dac in a run of the mill housing estate !
The most beautiful and amazing car EVER ! Thank you for sharing your experience Ian.
The best noise of any engine
I thought as a Jag man Ian you would know to flick the lever on the steering wheel to lift it up
I had no idea about this! Knew the Merc 300SL had it.
I've just said I'd have to change the wheel for a period correct aftermarket one otherwise I wouldn't get in at my height but that snippet of info changes that possibly. Like Ian I knew about the Merc SL but never about the XK having that feature.
I wasn’t sure if this car was very Hubnut… until I saw the extra wiper
Lucky Boy..! That thing is Fabulous..!
Dripping with Envy here..!🤢
Nice Job..!! Great video.
Cheers all. 😎
That is a sound i will never forget... classic jaaag.
What a glorious video of a wonderful car. Top HubNut!
In the late autumn of 1963, in a heavy rainstorm mixing with sleet and wet snow, I got a lift from one of my professors, from southern New Hampshire to New York City, roughly 240 miles. His car was a white, left hand drive
XK 140 fixed head coupe with a 4 speed gearbox. The Jag held the road beautifully, and we ran well over the speed limit
the whole way. I arrived in NYC way ahead of schedule. A most impressive car, very safe,
and the owner clearly knew how to drive it.
Please an Aston Martin DB4 and 5 test drive :-)
Gosh. I'd have to speak to my insurer about those!
Love the stories! Sitting in the middle of the track playing a card game, while Sterling rolls by over 100 mph? How Monty Python does that sound? ;-)
The crew’s decision not to use the extra lights would not have been down to any shortcomings of the electrical system, but rather the fear of the extra load sapping valuable horsepower.
In 1963, I had the privilege of taking ownership of a, black ‘53, XK120mc FHC. I lived forty miles from the Watkins Glen Race Track. There was access through a tunnel to the infield when the track was not having an event. It was the perfect place to safely let the Jag stretch its legs and not have to worry about getting a ticket. I replaced the chrome grill for,$54.00 and the four bumpers at, $27.00 each. Of course now I wish I had kept it, but the Syrian Song of the XKE was too much to resist.
I voted for this video, I'm glad I did because it's a classic. The steering wheel center boss ready to impale you in the slightest collision, definitely an encouragement to drive this carefully. "It's got a rain button to make it rain", my favourite kind of humour, but I'm disappointed you didn't test this function, unless, of course, you were suppressed by NASA and "big drought" who don't want this one simple trick to be known to the general public.
Jaguar described the "cigarette" lighter as a "cigar" lighter in the owners' manual of the 1950s models!
Truly remarkable drive Ian what a car
What a history and what a beautiful car. You lucky so & so! I have loved Jags since I was in nappies. My dad's brother-in-law had a Jag service centre back in the late 50s and early 60s so I got a ride in a few Jags of the time. I was out of nappies but still in shorts when I first fell in love, a brand new white XK 150S DHC. A couple of super reports from Jaguar Heritage Ian, Thanks.
Great enthusiasm. Infectious.
You need to take Bob down there and stay for a week. Think of the content! XJ40s are "hubnut" enough. Maybe the police XJS. And find the Daimler Corsica!
Not really a Jag. man ……but……that was something very special. Maybe I could be converted. 🤔
What were the extra pointers on the speedometer?
I never could see the speed relative to the RPMs.
Very nice show and tell!
Keep up the good work!
JIM ❤
Oh yes, that's a HubNut car. Patinated, especially the interior but extra points for plier marks on the rear wing and the sand-blasted (?insect-blasted) number plate, not really all that high performance by modern standards, inconvenient, hard to drive and occasionally terrifying, but a total joy even when we can only experience it vicariously (and I bet there were a few vicars who drove to church in one of those). Historic HubNut, certainly. Luxury HubNut, even, but still HubNut.
Hey Ian - I owned probably the most Hubnut of the older Jags - a 1963 3.8 MK10. Only 10 ish ears after that car. Mine was so low geared that I could see off a number of the 6 cylinder oiks here on Australian roads - they didn't know what had happened.
My favourite thing about this video, beyond the curvaceous lines, the sound of the engine, that perfect cabin, is the fact that your Lada video has more views! Brilliant
Ford also did the same with a Corsair GT around 1964 ( I believe it had an early fuel injection system). They also found a Corsair would go faster without a front bumper.
That car is quite capable of making its own 'pchoo!' at the end of a video. And you picked exactly the right music for it, Ian. Thanks! 👌🙂👍
Amazing cars. I did see a more modest Hubnut vehicle today, it was a few cars in front on the school run and I thought it was a Datsun, but it was actually a 1984 Mazda 929 Estate.
The excitement in your voice is enough for me. This must have been a childhood dream for you!
The performance by Stirling Moss in the 1955 Mille Miglia must be the greatest drive in the history of motor sport. 👍
What a fantastic review of an amazing car. You keep harping on about the steering being inaccurate because it is recirculating ball. Nonsense. Properly adjusted, entire front end in good condition, recirculating ball steering is accurate enough to hit a coffee cup square on, with either front wheel, at 75 mph. Whenever I see a paper coffee cup on the highway and in my lane, I aim for it. A chance to make sure the car and my eyes are still in decent nick. I even managed to do that in my brother's 86 Grand Marquis Colony Park estate with better than half a million miles in the clock. Guess that one needs some attention. Best guess, idler arm, pitman arm, or steering box, although the latter is often able to be adjusted.
Certainly do love the sound of that car. Amazing
The most beautiful two seat hard-top to ever drop from any gifted designer's pen.
Oh, that they were still a current model; if whoever owns Jaguar (this week) isn't interested, then sell the rights to someone worthy of the task & let's have this sleek beauty back among us - modern running gear if you must - but the shape, oh, that must stay! : )
Absolutely beautiful car. I'm glad they spent the time fixing and keeping that piece of history going for all of these years.
Sweet jaguar 6 sympathy only a merlin in full flight can match.
I'm assuming the original pattern cross ply tyres are fitted for the authentic handling experience.
Beautifully driven Ian, you made the gear shifts look like a knife through butter, which I suspect they were anything but! 👏
It's a really nice gearbox for one of these.
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The owners manual for my 1968 series 1 XJ6 has the tire pressure setting for that sort of driving on public roads.
Can you imagine if every concept car actually made it into production?
I could smell that interior its a wonderful smell you don't forget 😊 wonderful content Ian thank you 👍
Thanks hub Richard Frank Ann frankie dog watch meny Utube car video but we have stayed with you and your partner as she loves cars as you do been watching meny years ❤
Wow you mentioned Ian Appleyard , I worked for him in the mid 70s in Harrogate happy memories from that time .
Ian the XK engine is a very good looking engine and has made top ten engines ever along with some great engines and that intior who doesn't love a wood dashboard and in 1952 that must have been something to average 100mph for a week l would do 100mph in an XK120 l have fone it on a motorcycle so no problem
You haven’t enjoyed yourself that much since the Fiat X1 video 😊
Nice jaaaaag
another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍