一張舊相片背後的故事
這次在溫哥華的家裡竟然意外地發現了這麼一幅60年代初的珍貴舊照片。
根據媽媽說當年這個香港親戚很喜歡玩跑車，九龍塘的大宅里居然停著一台改裝自Jaguar捷豹D-Type限量16台的XK-SS超級跑車(也就是Steven Mcqueen的那台)，看來當時香港也只有這麼一台，現在應該已經不再香港了。
Update: Mar 7, 2013
右邊那台今天才發現是另一英倫經典AC Greyhound!
Update: August 15, 2014
今天居然給我找到了這台XK-SS的底盤資料(編號: XKSS757)，原車主為Ron Hardwick，而且這台更是1960年第七屆澳門格林匹治格蘭披治大賽車的冠軍! 過了半個世紀，幾經轉手後現在這車應該又回到了當年的它出生地英國。
Converted to XKSS 757 and sold via Gilman Motors of Hongkong to K. Y. Cheang who registered it XX 120 and drove it for some 1400 miles on the road.
In 1959 he sold the car to AC-Bristol owner Ron Hardwick who entered it in the Macao Grand Prix. He sold it back to Cheang. Then bought by Gilman´s Manger Martin Redfern, who gave it its second Macau Grand Prix victory in 1960 when it looked more like a D-Type than a XKSS.
It had been rebuilt after an accident. The car was brought back by Nigel Moores of Liverpool in 1966 when it was re-established as a dark green XKSS. It was sold to Yoshijuki Hayashi in Japan in 1988 but by 1995, returned to the UK when it was sold to Peter Rae. In 1996, the car was offerd for sale by Symbolic Motors in the USA.
Update: July 31, 2022
Many thanks to Mr. Jack Lee for his extensive research on this one and only XK-SS in Hong Kong.
