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Roy Cousins
1936 SS Jaguar 100 3½-litre Supercharged Special (Tom McWhirter)
VSCC “Spring Start” at Silverstone – Saturday 12th April 2014
Taken on April 12, 2014
Tom Ellis 7y
I took a photo of this car wondering what it was having not seen it before! Looks really good in racing trim, shame it didn’t race 🙁
Roy Cousins 7y
BWK77 (AKA “Old Number 8”), an early SS100 2½-litre, was a very successful rally car that was later stripped for racing and fitted with a 3½-litre engine. www.moraymotormuseum.org/index.php?option=com_content&…
Photos: original-bwk77-001 to 005
Source: FlickR
Information from Moray Motor Museum Website:
1936 Jaguar SS100
Engine: 3485cc
Output: 180 bhp
0 – 60: 7.5 secs
Top Speed: 140 mph
BWK 77 or, as it is more comonly known ‘Old No.8’ due to it’s chassis number, was the first racing car from Jaguar. Although ran to start with as a private entry in the 1936 Alpine Rally, which it won, the car was seen to be a great advertisement so was adopted by Jaguar and ran as a ‘works car’ pre and post war until the advent of the XK120.
This car started as a standard car and over the years lost its wings and had a lightened chassis and even had a supercharger fitted. It raced and won at venues such as Brooklands, Shelsey Walsh Prescott and has recently competed at Goodwood.
The museum is currently developing a supercharged engine for the car with the intention to achieve 250bhp minimum from this ultra-lightweight car.
Photos: original-bwk77-006 to 010
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Roy Cousins
SS Jaguar 100 3½-Litre Supercharged Special (1936)
VSCC ‘Spring Start’ at Silverstone, 20th April 2013
This car, “Old Number Eight” (from it’s early chassis number), was campaigned by Tom & Elsie (“Bill”) Wisdom in the 1936 Alpine Rally.
It was stripped-down to create Jaguar’s first works race car, lightened and developed, and later uprated to 3½-Litre specification.
It is currently part of Tom McWhirter’s Moray Motor Museum and regularly raced by him.
Photo: original-bwk77-011