#Jaguar Mark VII

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

What a difference 74 years makes juxtaposition of Jaguar Mark VII, 1950 & Jaguar Type 00 Concept, 2024. The news and social media media in the UK have been busy with Jaguar's new concept today so I thought I'd pitch it. First of all some context: Jaguar has been owned by Indian Multinational Tata Motors since 2008. Recently Jaguar has been doing badly, at present they don't make any saloons or sports cars at all. Their most recent model, the I-Pace electric crossover was introduced in 2018 and is scheduled to be discontinued in 2025. The E-Pace compact SUV is about to end production leaving the F-Pace SUV (introduced in 2015) as their only offering. On November 18 the Jaguar brand was relaunched with a new logo and aimed at a new, more rarified market. The Type 00 is a concept that points to the future style of Jaguar cars. It is not a "production intent" concept, their first "reimagined" production car will be an electric four‑door GT – to be revealed in late 2025. The important thing to note about their new saloon is that it will sell for around £120,000, twice the price of the last XJ saloon when it was discontinued in 2019. I have juxtaposed the Type 00 with the Mark VII because it was also launched at a time when Jaguar was repositioning itself in post-war Britain and was a high-end saloon, the first to use Jaguar's then new XK DOHC straight 6. Jaguar are taking a huge risk with their new electric saloon, only time will tell if their strategy will work but I have never seen a concept car get as much news coverage and comment as the Type 00

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1951 Jaguar Mark VII Saloon

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Marilyn Monroe avec une Jaguar Mark VII de 1953 à Jasper, Alberta, Canada. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

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Jaguar Mark VII

Gilmanton, New Hampshire

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Jaguar Mark VII

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Prince George being driven to Pippa Middleton’s wedding in a vintage Jaguar (Mark VII/VIII/IX)

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Alan Ladd in his Jaguar Mark VII saloon car near his home in Hollywood, California, circa 1955.

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Najeeb Khan’s Car Collection, Part I,

1964 Aston Martin DB5,

1953 Fiat 8V Supersonic by Ghia, originally delivered to famed General Motors designer Henry S. Lauve,

1952 Ferrari 225 s Berlinetta by vignale,

1961 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint by Bertone,

1950 Studebaker Commander Starlight Coupe,

1958 Lancia Aurelia B20 GT,

1966 Jaguar E Type,

1956 Jaguar Mark VII M Saloon,

1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing,

1967 Toyota 2000GT,

Courtesy of Darin Schnabel / RM Sotheby's

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1952 Jaguar Mark VII Saloon

via Retrofair Vintage Ads & Prints

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Jaguar Mark VII M https://ift.tt/2RDWniE - Follow me https://ift.tt/Roy1qi

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1955 Jaguar Mark VII M

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[frenchcurious]

Jaguar Mark VII 1951. - source Classic and Modern Show Cars AU.

[langkous]

Oh WOW, What a selection! Splendid local cars at auction at the Oakland Colosseum in September of 1975; I want them all. 1927 Bentley short wheelbase beetle back. (I almost remember that that was not modified, but a factory production. Can anyone verify?) 1951 Jaguar 120 M FHC. 1953 Jaguar Mark VII, 1958 Mercedes Benz 300 SL. Rolls Royce Silver Wraith. and an adorable little doll of a Singer 9 LeMans.

A note on auctions in those halcyon days. Back them they were not fabulous highly produced events run by international art houses. Back then if you had some cars, furniture or a farm, you hired a local auctioneer and hoped.

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So this was a fun, complicated, and challenging project. The task was to recreate a scene from the 80’s move Some Kind of Wonderful. The scene where Eric Stoltz and Mary Stuart Masterson are standing outside of their borrowed 1951 Mark VII Jaguar. The iconic line “You look good wearing my future” would be uttered later, but the client wanted to capture it all here. So here we have the car, the figures, the earrings. The earrings (his future) can be used to unlock the hood of the car to reveal the engagement ring. There is a button hidden in a headlight that activates the song “80s Films” by Jon Bellion. An epic collectors piece. . . . #somekindofwonderful #proposal #engagement @ericstoltzofficial #marystuartmasterson #80smovies #paulpapedesigns @jonbellion #youlookgoodwearingmyfuture #custom #sculpture @sculpey_official (at Paul Pape Designs) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3VWItB8Hl/?igshid=lbc6f3k9zjv4

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This Electric Guitar Beat the Pontiac Firebird to Market

Rock n’ roll and the automobile are inextricably linked, but few realize just how closely the electric guitar and the car are interconnected, too. Southern California’s Fender tapped into the region’s burgeoning car culture in the late 1950s, offering car colors from GM and Ford on its  revolutionary new Stratocaster. Gibson, its then-Michigan-based rival, took things even further with its 1963 Gibson Firebird electric guitar. Beating the Pontiac Firebird to market by five years, Gibson’s Firebird was not only inspired by automotive design of the era, but it was designed by a bona fide car designer, too.

Ray Dietrich had spent over 50 years coachbuilding, designing, and consulting on cars before trying his hand at an electric guitar. According to Coach Built, Dietrich got his start as an apprentice at Brewster & Co., a New York-based automaker that’s probably best known for building the Brewster Buffalo fighter plane for the U.S. Navy just prior to the start of World War II. Dietrich spent a few years cutting his teeth at Brewster and Chevrolet before co-founding LeBaron Carrossiers, which coach built for everyone from Cadillac, to Rolls-Royces built at the company’s Springfield, Mass. plant (which also employed and later owned Brewster).

When the Great Depression hit, the then-independent coachbuilder running Dietrich, Inc. found himself closing up shop and joining Chrysler. It’s at Chrysler where he made his largest impact on the auto industry, working on the team that designed the revolutionary Chrysler Airflow, and then in 1935 leading the team that designed its far more successful follow up, the Chrysler Airstream. After leaving Chrysler in the late ‘30s, he joined Checker, where he worked on war production and a stillborn front-wheel drive taxi called the Checker Model D. Post-war, Dietrich restarted his coachbuilding business by designing Lincoln Cosmopolitan limousines for President Harry Truman and consulting on outside projects like the Lincoln Continental Mark II and the Tucker 48, before retiring in 1960 to Kalamazoo, Michigan.

That’s where Gibson president Ted McCarty found him in late 1962. With Fender’s bright automotive paints and its new Jaguar guitar, which appeared alongside the Jaguar E-Type in ads of the day, growing ever more popular, Gibson needed an answer. Dietrich came back nine days later with an automotive-inspired design unlike anything Gibson had ever built before.

Its offset body and rounded curves paid tribute to the ornamental fins on the American cars of the day, while its raised center section (due to its unique neck-through-body design), and ornate carved headstock were obvious call-backs to the luxury coach-built cars Dietrich dedicated his life to creating. The electric guitar versions would be called the Firebird I, Firebird III, Firebird V, and Firebird VII—an obvious tip of the hat to the GM’s futuristic jet-powered Firebird I, Firebird II, and Firebird III concepts. The electric bass version of Dietrich’s new design would be called the Thunderbird, after the Ford of the same name. Both would get a unique ornamental logo penned by Dietrich on their contrasting pickguards.

Gibson’s Firebird wouldn’t just be designed and named for cars, but when it went on sale in 1963, it’d be available in real car colors, too. McCarty and Dietrich would settle on 10 colors for the Firebird from GM and Ford’s palates—five from Oldsmobile, including Cardinal Red, four from Cadillac, including Pelham Blue, and Ember Red, from Edsel.

The Gibson Firebird would never go on to be the massive sales success that McCarty hoped, but Dietrich’s handiwork would find fans in the hands of guitarists like Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Paul Stanley, and bassists like Nikki Sixx. GM, as you well know, would go on to finally put a Firebird into production in 1967, as Pontiac’s consolation prize for not being allowed to build the Banshee.

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