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\"\"<\/a>Welsh Enterprises, one of the leading specialists in Jaguar parts for over 56 years, has unearthed a very rare, C-Type Jaguar XK140 MC engine that was tucked away for over 64 years!<\/p>\n

Pulled from a wrecked Jaguar XK140 MC, in 1957, the engine was quietly stored indoors until recently being acquired by Welsh. While the engine moves freely and still has compression, what makes this barn find even more rare is the fact that it still wears its original, matching numbers C-Type high performance head with upgraded sand-cast carbs and H8 inlet manifold.<\/p>\n

Welsh is currently accepting reasonable offers on this desirable piece of Jaguar history at\u00a0www.welshent.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welsh Enterprises, one of the leading specialists in Jaguar parts for over 56 years, has unearthed a very rare, C-Type Jaguar XK140 MC engine that was tucked away for over 64 years! Pulled from a wrecked Jaguar XK140 MC, in 1957, the engine was quietly stored indoors until recently being acquired by Welsh. While the engine moves freely and still has compression, what makes this barn find even more rare is the fact that it still wears its original, matching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":814162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[562,255],"tags":[429,415,11753],"class_list":["post-499326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jaguar","category-news","tag-news","tag-jaguar","tag-jaguar-c-type"],"yoast_head":"\nRare Jaguar C-Type Engine Unearthed After 64 Years<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Welsh Enterprises has unearthed a very rare, C-Type Jaguar XK140 MC engine that was tucked away for over 64 years!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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