Restored Jaguar to race up Mt. Washington

It might be easy to think of Roger Dowd, a 75-year-old lawyer and sports car buff from Framingham, as a vintage racer. But the real vintage racer is Dowd’s prized sports car, a 1951 Jaguar XK120 Special known far and wide simply as the Beast. Roger Dowd stands in front of his restored 1951 Jaguar XK120 Special.
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By Brion O’Connor, Globe Correspondent
It might be easy to think of Roger Dowd, a 75-year-old lawyer and sports car buff from Framingham, as a vintage racer. But the real vintage racer is Dowd’s prized sports car, a 1951 Jaguar XK120 Special known far and wide simply as the Beast.

Roger Dowd stands in front of his restored 1951 Jaguar XK120 Special.