{"id":9996,"date":"2020-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/jaguar-xk140-aerodyne-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T15:33:32","slug":"jaguar-xk140-aerodyne-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/jaguar-xk140-aerodyne-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguar XK140 Aerodyne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a car designer, sometimes your life might be not so easy. Depending on where you are employed, you have to adapt to the given house design and style appropriate vehicles. What do you do in such a case if you would like to let off a little steam? You let your thoughts run free in your spare time after work. John Toom, who was employed as a designer at Nissan USA, did the same. He dreamed of a Jaguar with a powerful engine and visual quotes from pre-war coachwork cars made by European coachbuilders. Since the Jaguar brand didn’t exist in its current form before World War 2 (at that time the British company still operated under the name Swallow Sidecars and the abbreviation S.S. Cars, which seemed inappropriate after the war), it was obvious for him to choose a suitable base and then draw his dream car himself. He decided on the chassis of a Jaguar XK140, which resulted in a wheelbase of 2,591 millimeters. Toom designed a two-seater Coup\u00e9 bodywork that could have come from Pourtout, Figoni & Falaschi or Vanvooren in this form back in the days. Free-standing wide fenders, a high, rounded radiator grille and a curved roof give the ‘Aerodyne’ christened result an unusual appearance for a Jaguar.<\/p>\n\n\n

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