The 8V's engineering was under the direction of Dante Giacosa, original styling was by Luigi Rapi. Only 114 8Vs were made over the period 1952-1954. Wikipedia notes: "34 of the cars had a factory produced bodywork by Fiat's Dipartimento Carrozzerie Derivate e Speciali ('Special Bodies Department')." Their styling was via Rapi. Others were by coachbuilding firms. For example, I posted "Ghia's Fiat 8V Supersonic" here.
The images below of initial 8V styling seem to be originally via Fiat.
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I didn't expect to see so much XKE in these (or I guess 8V in the XKE) since the E was a development of a Jaguar race car shape, but the side and particularly rear 3/4 views show that the Jaguar designers were very aware of this car, and not just with the coupe version of the E. But did the blip on the fender skirt have enough vertical clearance for the knock off spinner? I guess so. Not a lot of wheel travel then. The blip seems to be missing from the color front view.
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