
Photo: Jaguar Cars
This is what brought Abbey Panels and Jaguar in contact- improving this saloon body. The offending panel was the rear quarter roof panel and its complex curves can be seen well here. Note the lead-filled seams.
This is a Mk V – its predecessor was very similar in this area.

Photo: Jaguar Cars
Ted’s men produced this under Lyon’s direction and made the first batch of alloy- bodies XK120’s