This very special car (S834369) was assembled as a rolling chassis at the Browns Lane factory in August 1957 as a special order for the Jaguar dealer in Geneva, who commissioned Zagato, the legendary Milanese coachbuilder, to design and build the unique alloy body. The finished car appeared on the Zagato stand at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1958.
At one time it was thought that Zagato may have built three cars on XK150 chassis, one of which was displayed in Geneva in 1958, with a second shown at the Paris Salon in 1960. The current owner’s father was under the impression that his car was the Paris car, although we have now established that it was, in fact, the 1958 Geneva car. Photos of this car, which had previously been mistakenly attributed to the 1960 Paris show, appear in a Motor (UK magazine) Geneva Show report dated March 1958.
This discovery, together with the existence of several photographs of a clearly different XK150 Zagato, supports the theory that only two Jaguar XK150 Zagatos were ever built. The whereabouts of the second XK150 Zagato are unknown.
At some point in the very early 1960’s, our Jaguar XK150 Zagato made its way to the United States where it was purchased by the current owner’s father in 1964.
We are honored to have been entrusted with the restoration of this very special and unique motor car.
