How’s it going with this Jaguar XK180 from Apeldoorn?
Posted on 10-03-2016 at 17:22 by perry_snijders – 39 Comments”
In our series on Dutch manufacturers, we look this time the Jaguar XK180. The concept car of Jag goes into production, just in Apeldoorn, and the first copy is ready!
If the project is familiar to you; you is not that crazy, because the team of JePe Specials will work for years on the car, says Eric Fintelman. ‘It really began in 2009, when a photo of a XK180 encountered with a phone number there. When we bought a body of polyester, and that we used to have a first prototype to build on the basis of an XJS. The goal was to have more of them, because of course it is a shame that Jaguar beautiful car in production has taken. Soon we got in the holes that we cannot make with a body of polyester could do, because that is not tight enough, or actually just not good enough.’
Thus began the men with a second copy, this time on the basis of an XKR instead of the older XJS. This is logical, because the concept car that Jaguar in 1998 showed was also built on the basis of a (shortened) XKR. The brand showed the car for the first time at the Salon of Paris, after a development period of just ten months. The car was equipped with an automatic transmission, but on the wheel he had buttons that allows you to manually could switch. After that first copy was a second one built, this time linksgestuurd. Because the XKR was, could both of the cars – in contrast to most other showauto’s – just drive.
“Our XK180 is also a vending machine on the basis of an XKR, but we can also do a XK8 as a basis or a manual version to build,” says Fintelman. “We have had contact with people who have worked on the original cars, but we have two originals is also completely measured. On that basis, we build a car that looks most like the original XK180 such as Jaguar him at the end of the last century has built. With some deviations, because that original, for example, had no wipers or mirrors; that way you won’t get through the MOT.’
Perhaps you wonder why we are not equal, a piece of his drive with the Woods, XK180, especially if you know that our Casper the attached pictures. The reason is simple, that could not yet. “Not only because of that windshield wiper and mirrors, but also because we currently have to the frame work,” says Fintelman. “The car is currently on Intrax and if we get him back, you are welcome.’
Of course we are curious what the Jaguar of the car. ‘They have no objection, but they have said that they are also not going to help. We must make it clear that ‘ie not by Jaguar itself is built, is already allowed Jaguar stickers stuck on it: the basis is, after all, also a Jaguar, and there is also a Jaguar on your plate.’
Think not that a XK180 by the use of a car is a cracker; with the purchase of that car you’ve there namely still a long. ‘That car should be seen as the base, including license plate. Preferably we look for that car also, so we’re not in for a surprise – you must really have a good basis. Because the whole car is handmade, including the aluminum body, we have namely, a starting-price of 325.000 euro. We currently have three serious people interested, and some of the people that test want drive. Or that much? However, when you consider that we have a maximum of three per year can build. That also ensures that buyers a unique car. For example, if you an Eagle E-Type buys, you are also a good amount lost, but then you have still an E-Type, just like the rest of the world.”
Gallery: Jaguar JePe Specials XK180
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