Originally Posted by
Mike-in-Orange
Well, technically, yes and no. It's an SS Cars SS100 Jaguar. SS stood for Swallow Sidecar, which is the company William Lyons founded before he ever started making cars. Yep, he made motorcycle sidecars first, then cars. Following WWII the name "SS" carried a completely different connotation, so it was dropped in favor a new name. Jaguar. We're so used to "Jaguar" being the brand name but in this case, it was actually part of the model name since the brand was "SS Cars" at this time.
A bit late to post on this but......
A buddy of mine had a nice one around 1960 in England, he was driving it too fast coming up to a sharp left hand turnand with lousy brakes he went though the gearbox in a hurry and found reverse.... ooops. Goodbye gearbox etc and hello wreckers as he could not afford to repair it.
Imagine what it would havebeen worth today restored.