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By Terry Larson, Penny Woodley, Den Carlow, and Paul Skilleter These copies will go fast, order yours today! |
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It has been a long time since the previous extensive listing of C-type, D-type and Lightweight E-type cars was published in a 240 page book. The first really authoritative listings appeared in the two volumes Andrew Whyte wrote on Jaguar works competition cars in the 1980s, and these were updated in Philip Porter's 1995 publication on Jaguar Sports Racing Cars. Since then, the C-type Register published in 2001 has contributed a considerable amount of new information in print.
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Terry's motivation to start this project long ago can be best summed up in this quote: The book has been compiled with the help of many people worldwide, but along with Terry Larson, the key researchers have been Penny Woodley (owner of XKC 011 and former owner of the Griffiths collection), Den Carlow (a Jaguar Heritage volunteer, although this publication is independent of either Heritage or Jaguar itself) and Paul Skilleter. Crucially, the book has been edited by the recently retired JDHT chief archivist Anders Clausager, who has applied his usual rigour to the material. The publishing & printing was done with the help of Ole Sommer, owner of XKD 514, one of the most original D-types in existence. |
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C-type Register The Mille Miglia was never really Jaguar territory but Stirling Moss and Norman Dewis, seen here at Brescia in XKC 003, were running as |
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Individual C-type Car Histories The first of the original three works cars, which were ready for the 1951 Le Mans, and were driven out to France on trade |
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D-type Register XKC 401 shortly after completion early in 1954, along with some of the key people involved. From left to right: Arthur Ramsey, Keith Cambage, Gordon Gardner, Bob Knight, and Malcolm Sayer; in the centre Bill Heynes (with hand in pocket); then Phil Weaver, Joe Sutton, Bob Penney, and Len Hayden. Sitting in the car is Norman Dewis. Photo courtesy Norman Dewis. |
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Individual D-type Car Histories This was effectively the prototype D-type; it was the first of the batch of “alloy chassis” cars which all had chassis numbers beginning with the number 4, mostly prefixed XKC as the designation “D” had not yet been decided on. The front section of the frame and the rear suspension frame of the structure were argon-arc welded directly into the central alloy monocoque section.
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XKSS Register The pending obsolescence of the D-type plus a high price-tag (£3878 including taxes in the UK in 1955) resulted in some 25 production D-types remaining unsold at the end of 1956. To make use of them, in January 1957 Jaguar announced a new sports car, describing it as “a type of vehicle equally suitable for normal road use and sports car racing.
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Individual XKSS Car Histories XKSS 707 (XKD 564) was counted as part of the stock of unsold D-types on 21 November 1956 (Robson Jaguar D-type p.130). It is believed to have been sold to Lou Brero, but he was killed in Hawaii before he could take delivery. The car was instead sold to Sammy Weiss, but Weiss was killed a few months later at Laguna Seca. In 1958, the car was sold by Oxford Motors (Weiss’s company in Sacramento) to Sidney Colberg of San Francisco, who owned it until 1972. |
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Competition E-type Register The first essential fact to establish is that officially the“Lightweight E-type” doesn’t exist. No such model was catalogued by Jaguar, it never appeared in any price lists, and it never featured in any advertisements. |
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Individual E-type Car Histories The car was originally a steel-bodied roadster and became the demonstrator for Coombs of Guildford. According to the original log book, the registration mark BUY 1 was assigned to the car from Coombs’s Mark II demonstrator on 27 April at a cost of £5. On 3 November, BUY 1 was reassigned again to another car, and 4 WPD was assigned to 850006. |
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Soft-bound large format (8 3/4 x 11 5/8 approx.), and 240 pages; 91 Black & White photos and 37 Color photos.
First edition: September 2014
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