Equipment
Dual SU carbs, spinner wheel covers, rear fender skirts, Brooklands aero screens, engine turned dash, badge bar.
Condition
Paint crack at the back of the passenger door. Driver door isn't flush, and neither is the right rear fender trim or the trunk. Lightly pitted exhaust tips. Lightly worn seats. Restored but used underneath. Restored in the early 1990s and used since. An SS100 chassis bought in 1939 by Van den Plas in Belgium but not bodied until after the war with this unique coachwork. Then displayed by the coachbuilder at the Brussels Motor Show in 1948.
Market commentary
Like Raymond Loewy's E-Type, this one-off SS100 is certainly distinctive and eye-catching, blending features of the SS100 with envelope bodywork typical of the coming XK 120. It is effective, but also isn't as graceful as the either original factory-bodied car or the XK, especially the out of proportion Lucas Kind of the Road headlights. It truly is unique, however, and uniqueness carries a premium in the world of classic cars. In this case, it's several times the going rate for a normal 2.5-liter SS100.