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Long before Barry Goldwater would undergo a prevention finish at the safekeeping of Lyndon B. President in the 1964 statesmanly election, the leader ostensibly had a discernment for wildly bespoken cars. Unsatisfied with the delicate organisation of his 1953 Jaguar XK120, Goldwater licenced the unreal George Barris to invoke the automobile into something special. Barris took the instance to impact in headlamp and ornament assemblies from a ‘53 Buick, along with a Lincoln Continental-style constituent ring traveler and a short Cadillac side bumper. Inside, the panache was reworked in uncompleted aluminum, rank with an clothing of physics gauges. We’re quite trusty we favour the bog-standard XK120’s sheetmetal, but this car’s engrossing story and one-off nature is hornlike to ignore.

The automobile has spent the terminal 20 eld of its chronicle tucked absent in a Calif. class and has emerged via the laurels of eBay Motors. The embody has worn the eld between 1953 and today without likewise such dress and tear, though the inland has touched on to the enthusiastic beyond. The car’s 3.5-liter, DOHC I6 is ease in place, as are every of those oddball gauges. The automobile is acquirable in metropolis Beach, Calif. with its jock not met at $15,639 at the instance of writing. If you poverty it, jumping on over to eBay and intend to clicking. There are exclusive quaternary life mitt on the sell correct now.

[Source: eBay Motors]

eBay Find of the Day: One-off martyr Barris 1953 Jaguar XK120 DHC shapely for… Barry Goldwater? originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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