JAGUAR X K120 Coupé' -1953 -

You XK120 was launched in version roadster in the saloon dell?automobile in London October 27 th 1948 as I communicate of test.L?intent of the presentation was also that to propose one car, to demonstrative purpose, that climbed on the new motor XK6 of the Jaguar. The model destis² peris² a lot of interest and suscitis² many positive comments, what William Lyons convinced to produce him/it in series.The figure?120? in the name of the model reported to the 120 mphs (193 km / h) of velocitis  gotten motto with installed windscreen (without anterior glass the velocitis  it was superior), making to become the XK120, to the time of his/her throwing, the car of production standard piiss fast ¹ to the world [4].
Was it available in two open versions, roadster (denominated?OTS?, dall?English, Open Two Seater, ciois ¨?done open to two places?) and cabriolet (?DHC?, from?drophead coupis ©?; you/he/she had been offered since November 1952), further to a dam, ciois ¨ coupis© (?FHC?, from?fixed-head coupis ©?; it had been available since 1951). The cabriolet and her coupis ©s possessed a dashboard in it takes root. All the three versions were to two places.The version roadster was successful in the competitions.
The samples of the XK120 are very sought after from the collectors.
The first 242 samples, all roadsters, hand you/they were built to from 1948 to the 1950. Them ds had the body shop?aluminum and the longerons loom and crossroads, that it derived from that of the Mark V and it was built in wood of ash. When the model entris² in production of series in 1950, her was body shop built in steel with l?objective to contain the costs. Did ds remain?aluminum the doors, the anterior chest and that back.
With the heading in league, the carburetors I double body On and a double tree to cams in head, the motor Jaguar XK6 to six cylinders in line from 3,4 Ls of was capacity technologically advanced all?epoch, in comparison to the propellers installed on the other autos of series. Thanks also to a relationship of compression of 8:1 it disbursed 160 CVs of power [2]. It was also available a motor with relationship of compression equal to 7:1, that it was proper to be fed with fuel of smaller qualitis . The mechanics of this propeller, subsequently modified in the versions by 3,8 Ls and 4,2 Ls, you/he/she would have survived up to the eighties.
All the samples of the XK120 anteriorly climbed on bar suspensions of torsion independent with quadrilateral deformable, while subsequently a was installed it attacks rigid with crossbows seeds elliptic (both her anterior suspensions that those back derived from the Mark V).
Besides, a steering gear was installed to circulation of spheres with cried to of it telescopic regulation and of the brakes to drum on the four wheels that were subject peris² to fading, ciois fatigue ¨ after an intense use, for example in footstep, that brought the brakes to temporarily lose theirs effectiveness. To avoid quest?last problem, some samples were endowed of drums Alfin (acronym of ALuminium FINned, ciois ¨ with fins in aluminum).
The hood in cloth of the roadster and the separable side car windows him they put back behind the seats and his/her doors in style small boat they didn't have external handles; was it instead it foresees a cable to throw, azionabile dall?external through a tongue in the side car windows, when the car was in closed configuration. The windscreen could be removed for making place to of the single slides.The cabriolet had a hood in stuffed cloth, that him it refolded behind the seats and descending car windows with openable deflectors. A flat windscreen was installed in two pieces climbed on on a loom done integrate to the body car and done paint of the same color of quest?last. The inside part of the doors of the cabriolet and the coupis ©s were you dress again from it takes root of wood, while the piiss ¹ spartane roadsters were you internally dress again in skin. All the models possessed some passaruotas careened some back wheels that were removable to furnish to the car an aspect piis aerodynamic ¹. On the samples equipped with wheels to rays with gallettone (available from 1951), the careened passaruotas didn't come installed to furnish space to the chromed gallettone Rudge-Whitworth to two fins.On the versions If (ciois ¨ Special Equipment, ciois ¨, in English, ?Special equipment?), besides the wheels to rays, l?equipment it also foresaw suspension piis rigid ¹, a motor piis powerful ¹ and a double system of unloading.All the versions had the motor anteriorly climbed on and the back traction. The motion was transmitted to the wheels through a I change manual to 4 relationships with overdrive to application.
Coupis ¨ English years 50 of white color with intents in skin ivory completely systematized of motor, mechanics and ciclistica in recent times.