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Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER
Possibly a "nut and bolt" restoration, meaning someone supplied a nut and bolt from the original  |
Well, suggestion from the ever reliable internet
is that the car built with that XKD # never left the factory in one piece, but was broken for spares. Many moons later it came up for sale complete, but then someone else claimed to have the chassis / tub with that XKD number. Then it turned out that another car was in circulation also with the same number! That was later dismissed as a replica (or con
). Conclusion is that the car pictured is a genuine D Type, but like many old race cars, not necessarily consisting now of all the parts it was originally built with!
