Vintage Thing No.152 - SS JAG. special
John called his series of specials Spenceley Specials. I really like the play on abbreviations for the SS JAG (SS being the pre-war name for what became Jaguar) but he reckoned it just confused people! In 2000, long before my first digital camera, I took some snaps of this machine at the Easter meeting at Tregrehan. The programme described it as a JAG but it didn't look like any Jaguar I knew. I was also intrigued by the SS JAG badge on the radiator. Sir William Lyons originally traded as SS before WW2 but adopted the name of Jaguar postwar for obvious reasons. Curiosity piqued, I thought it was worth taking some smudges of it. This is the same car at Wiscombe Park in 2008 but with a Riley 1496cc engine At the time this machine boasted a 2-litre Pinto engine but it subsequently turned up at Wiscombe Park in 2008 with a Riley 1496cc motor. I recently bought a superb book on RGS-Atlantas and was intrigued to find this car in it. It also appeared on a Facebook page for 50s and ...