I’ve done this car to death of course, but each time it’s offered for sale the vendor unveils a few more shots, Bonhams are the source of this lot. Shared here coz they are too interesting to waste.
Geordie Anderson checks that her Dunlops are attached securely before the off, XKD526 circa 1956.
The on-circuit shots are at Lowood, and appear to be Ms Anderson too, happy to take your advice as to the meeting date. From memory it will be early after the cars arrival, once Bill Pitt got his hands on it, he kept it to himself. I would have done the same.
See here; https://primotipo.com/2016/03/18/lowood-courier-mail-tt-1957-jaguar-d-type-xkd526-and-bill-pitt/ and here; https://primotipo.com/2019/10/11/bill-pitt-frank-matich-and-xkd526-take-two/
Credits…
Bonhams
Tailpiece…
XKD526 during its Appendix K GT days at Warwick Farm circa 1961/2.
As ugly as it is, the conversion from curvaceous sporty to fugly coupe is still one of the better ones of that era.
Finito…
primotipo... 
Hi Mark, i forgot to get a copy of Auto Action with your write up on Owen , are you able to upload and send to me?
Regards Rob.
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“19/2/56, Leyburn sprints, Mrs Anderson, clocked 135.2mph over flying quarter, setting a state record.” Quite clearly recall seeing this having come from Toowoomba in the family VW to witness the run.
The on-circuit shots at Lowood are probably the June 1959 Australian Tourist Trophy with Bill Pitt. The additional nose vents to the side of the main radiator inlet and the rear wing vents do not appear until circa 1958. Other photos from the 1956 Tourist Trophy or 1957 photos when the car was painted bronze do not have those vents. The first photo with Mrs. Anderson also does not have them. The registration number on the nose does not take the shape that it does here until 1958 either.