THE SKY’S THE LIMIT

XK120

Having developed a brand new engine in the dying days of WW2, William Lyons was keen to make its public debut in something rather more glamorous than the old-fashioned MkV and needed something to attract people to the newly-renamed Jaguar stand at the first British postwar motor show.

The answer was the XK120, its style Lyons would later admit was worked up in just a couple of weeks. The aluminium-bodied creation sat on a shortened