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Title: SOLVED: Djetset #509 - Rivers Fletcher Jaguar XK120 BRM-inspired hillclimb special
Post by: Djetset on May 16, 2011, 04:34:16 PM
Tell me all you can about this car to gain a point.
Title: Re: Djetset #509
Post by: Djetset on May 23, 2011, 05:08:27 PM
Surprised that this one has not generated any responses so far, but I am sure this will now change at the Expert level.
Title: Re: Djetset #509
Post by: shamrock on May 24, 2011, 02:50:11 AM
Rivers Fletchers Jaguar XK hillclimb special , 
Title: Re: Djetset #509
Post by: Djetset on June 01, 2011, 01:54:49 PM
Well done Shamrock; correct.
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #509 - Rivers Fletcher Jaguar XK120 BRM-inspired hillclimb special
Post by: grobmotorix on October 03, 2016, 06:08:38 PM
The same car during its build:
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #509 - Rivers Fletcher Jaguar XK120 BRM-inspired hillclimb special
Post by: Paul Jaray on October 06, 2016, 03:52:20 PM
Does anyone know who built it?
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #509 - Rivers Fletcher Jaguar XK120 BRM-inspired hillclimb special
Post by: Allan L on October 06, 2016, 06:28:05 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 06, 2016, 03:52:20 PM
Does anyone know who built it?
That photo Grobmotorix posted is in Rivers' book "More Motor Racing" with the caption " Freddie Owen building the body for the author's single-seater Jaguar" and in the text he refers to "a single-seater Jaguar which Bill Moss built for me."
Freddie Owen's other work was the subject of http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2010-38/solved-mjw-005-owen-jaguar-special-1962/msg119640/#msg119640 (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2010-38/solved-mjw-005-owen-jaguar-special-1962/msg119640/#msg119640) but I can't be as easily helpful about Bill Moss. I expect it was the same Bill Moss who had a garage business in Luton and was the owner and racer of ERA R5B (Remus) before the late Pat Lindsay.
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #509 - Rivers Fletcher Jaguar XK120 BRM-inspired hillclimb special
Post by: Paul Jaray on October 10, 2016, 04:01:31 PM
Thank you!
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #509 - Rivers Fletcher Jaguar XK120 BRM-inspired hillclimb special
Post by: xk120owenspecial on October 10, 2021, 09:20:02 AM
i have this car here in Denmark - had it since 1997
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #509 - Rivers Fletcher Jaguar XK120 BRM-inspired hillclimb special
Post by: Allan L on October 10, 2021, 11:02:36 AM
That's interesting and thanks for telling us. That sort of car often disappears from view when its original owner passes it on unless there is an obvious inheritance. We in UK often forget that Denmark has a good many enthusiasts for unusual British cars.
A great pity that Denmark is now so much further away from the UK than it was in 1997, if you see what I mean.