Keep checking barns...
in Bhutan! (UPDATE II: about MK IV)

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Of all the things you expect to find in the Kingdom Bhutan, we think you have listed the horrible Snowman, the Yeti higher than a poor lonesome Cat. So you can understand our astonishment when we received this photo from Lang Kidby - a Peking-Paris motorist located in Bhutan. The Bhutan barnfind is a four cylinder OHV, which fits with the view of to SS-Jaguar specialist Tom Zwakman who says this must be a 1.5 L Mk IV (anybody out there who can name the exact year?). It may not be the most attractive of all SS Saloons, but the story adds to the flavour. Even more when you believe the story that the car once belonged to the Maharaja of Cooch Behar in Bengal. Unfortunately the car comes without any documents so don't shoot us or Mr. Kidby when the story is untrue. By the way the SS is available for free to somebody who is seriously willing to extract the car from this remote location. [email protected]
UPDATË II by Tom Zwakman: 'This is a socalled 'MK IV', based on the next details. a. The car's doors have the lower, wider window chrome beads as opposed to the prewar SS Saloons. b. The rear bumper supports are different because of different positioning of the spare wheel 'door'. This is the MK IV set-up. c. Dick Trenk is right about the name MK IV never being official. d. About the engine: The 1,5 L had a 1776 cc engine built by Standard but not with the standard specs. They were built to order by Standard for the SS and later Jaguar models.'

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