Subject: Bob Dieck's Jaguar XK 120
21/09/2008 @ 18:20:24: antp: Bob Dieck's Jaguar XK 120
Bob (who posted from time to time on imcdb, and sent some pictures) sent me few files.

http://imcdb.org/temp/Bob_Jaguar.pdf

This was a Old cars rally, last weekend, in the mountains nearby Rio de Janeiro. If you look the upper left photo you will find a 911 with some cows. Behind the scene, there is a green XK 120 which is mine, and I am taking also a photo, with the camera above the windscreen.

The overall winner was that Hudson Pacemaker. Three curiosities are the white car - a Torino - an argentinian car very rare in Brazil, with a very good sporting records. The other is the yellow Alfa Romeo, a replica made in Aluminium, also built in Argentina, and finally, the white car behind the Hudson, a brazilian made sports car, which is a DKW-Malzoni, a victory winner in the sixties (with 2 stroke engines).

There were 31 cars, including 4 for Coupe de Dames. We rode about 500 km Friday and Saturday.


http://imcdb.org/temp/Bob_Jaguar_DSC03663.jpg
the photo I took behind the cows

http://imcdb.org/temp/Bob_Jaguar_DSC03667.jpg
the old coffee farm house, now a hotel and restaurant, very poetic

http://imcdb.org/temp/Bob_Jaguar_DSC03683.jpg
My XK, while waiting the time for controlled time

http://imcdb.org/temp/Bob_Jaguar_DSC03688.jpg
the 3 XKs while taking photos in a golf yard, for a style magazine

http://imcdb.org/temp/Bob_Jaguar_image001.png
21/09/2008 @ 18:28:01: antp: Bob Dieck's Jaguar XK 120
By the way, he also asked me to identify the car of this pic:

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/2245/casa2ch8.th.jpg http://img263.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif
06/10/2008 @ 19:56:02: antp: Bob Dieck's Jaguar XK 120
Some more info about that car:

I got a word from one of the boys in the photo, nowadays he is 62 tears old. I believe he is there at 8, so that the photo was taken around 54-55.

He swared the car is a Fiat with a second name which could be, as re remembers, Fiat Isabella, Fiat Isadora, or Fiat Fiorella.

There is no chance to be a brazilian production, so it must be an Italian made. The little badge just after the front wheel is much alike the italian "carrozieri" were used to do.


Still no-one to identify it?
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