Hello all, I'm new here and have already introduced myself in another thread.
I'm not sure if forum members are familiar with Frank Gardner's fiberglass XK120 race car from the 1950's.
The story is that he built a fiberglass replica body from the original XK120 to cut weight down on the race car and refitted it to the XK chassis. I don't know the full history of it or the ins and outs but i recently had a discussion with an 88 year old gentleman from S.A who told me that there was actually more than one XK120 fiberglass body made by Frank and also a number of other fiberglass panels etc in his possession up until the late 1980's or 90's.
I am lead to believe that the fiberglass bodied XK120 that was rebuilt/ restored by Frank some time in the late 80's early 90's??? And is now in the U.K can anyone shed more light on this? Is not the actual body that was raced, the chassis is, but not the body.
The gentleman i spoke with said the original body was in a very bad condition and another fiberglass body that had been made by Frank was used on the restored race car with the remaining fiberglass etc sold to a guy in Geelong Victoria. As above, he also mentioned there were other fiberglass parts, front clips, grills and parts etc.
Does anyone have any knowledge of ,or can anyone confirm this or shed some light here? I have no reason to doubt the man and i believe his story but it would be good to hear from anyone who knew Frank and the car or the story behind it.
Thanks in advance.