3,781cc DOHC 6-Cylinder Engine
2 SU Carburetors
220bhp at 5,500rpm
4-Speed Manual Transmission with Overdrive
Independent Front Suspension – Live Rear Axle
4-Wheel Hydraulic Dunlop Disc Brakes

*Desirable end-of-the-run 3.8-Liter XK150
*Jaguar Letter confirms matching-numbers engine
*Factory Overdrive example
*In the present ownership for more than 30 years

THE MOTORCAR OFFERED

'The Jaguar XK150 is undeniably one of the world's fastest and safest cars. It is quiet and exceptionally refined mechanically, docile and comfortable... we do not know of any more outstanding example of value for money.' - The Autocar.

Bonhams is honored to offer this particular XK150 from the Robert M. and Anne Brockinton Lee Collection. The car has resided in this stable since the 1980s, where among many British built cars it has rubbed shoulders with others of each chapter of the Jaguar story.

As new, according to a letter from Jaguar's Browns Lane Works in the 1980s, the car was supplied new to these shores and through Jaguar Cars North America to its first owner, Mr. F. Brown of Colombes, Missouri in November 1960. That same letter confirms it to have been delivered much as it is seen today, with the matched numbers engine, and in the same paintwork scheme of Cream/white with a black top and interior. With its late number, this places it in the very last sequence of these cars to have been delivered and has the appealing 'DN' suffix confirming overdrive transmission.

By the late 1980s the car appears to have migrated north to Montana, where it was restored by Carlson's Classics of Kalispell, MT. Correspondence on file records the extent to which the Roadster was restored, and it would seem that this was to a very high standard and with good authenticity for the detail aspects.

It is likely that the car was offered for sale on completion of its rebuild and Anne Lee recalls it being acquired from a New York Times advertisement in the late 1980s. Ever since that time it has resided in this collection, where it has generally been displayed rather than used. Although being an older restoration it has been sympathetically maintained, standing the test of time well. Later it was duplicated within the collection, now leading to the decision to part with the car.

As an extremely late example with the big 3.8 Liter motor and in roadster form, coupled to its prestigious ownership makes it a highly desirable example with great potential for future tour use.