RM Sotheby’s has found a new owner for a Jaguar XKSS roadster assembled in 1957. The rare car in great and mostly original condition went for an eye-watering 13,205,000 U.S. dollars.
The title lists numerous owners who kept respraying the body in all kinds of colors and re-trimming the interior, too. Despite these modifications, the auction house insisted that the roadster was one of the most authentic and best preserved XKSS models in existence, retaining its original engine, gearbox, most of the suspension, and brakes.
In case you didn’t know, Jaguar produced the exotic XKSS vehicle series after deciding to stop participating in races. The company still had around two dozen D-Type racecars gathering dust in its warehouses, so it reckoned that they would do well on the market once upgraded and made street-legal.