Name this car!
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lynxd67 said:
Le Mans Classic - racing is dangerous. Anyone figure it out? The car was rebuilt and is racing again.
You love a quiz Tony, eh?
It's probably a Lightweight "E", because the body panels look like alloy and from what I can see it has a wide angle head although what is left of the exhaust manifold looks kind of standard cast iron.
A wee bit of an enigma.
'Course if this was taken at LeMans just after the crash then it could be steel and hadn't rusted yet in true Jaguar fashion!
Maybe a high quality replica?
Put us out of our misery!
Ferg has got it straight away. This was reputed to be the most original C type in existence but during the 2004 Classic the driver was at full chat on the Mulsanne when the Allard in front lost it's bonnet and he swerved to avoid it, hitting the armco both sides of the track and doing some distance upside down. The car caught fire and Guy Broad stopped his XK120 and put the flames out with his extinguisher. Here you can see that the force of the accident was so great that the manifold got ripped clean off the cylinder head.
here you can see the state of the car in full and I can assure you that the other side was just as bad.
And here is a photo of the car as it ran again in 2006 - completely renewed. The cost of a full rebuild was I guess about £150,000 but the value is £800,000 so these types of car can never be an uneconomical repair
The driver? Two broken collar bones and burns but fully recovered now.
here you can see the state of the car in full and I can assure you that the other side was just as bad.
And here is a photo of the car as it ran again in 2006 - completely renewed. The cost of a full rebuild was I guess about £150,000 but the value is £800,000 so these types of car can never be an uneconomical repair
The driver? Two broken collar bones and burns but fully recovered now.
lynxd67 said:
This was reputed to be the most original C type in existence
And here is a photo of the car as it ran again in 2006 - completely renewed. The cost of a full rebuild was I guess about £150,000 but the value is £800,000 so these types of car can never be an uneconomical repair
And here is a photo of the car as it ran again in 2006 - completely renewed. The cost of a full rebuild was I guess about £150,000 but the value is £800,000 so these types of car can never be an uneconomical repair
So, as this is clearly no longer reputably the most original C-Type in existance......which one now is..??
The woodman's axe comes to mind when taking about all racing cars frankly. Seven handles and six heads but still the same axe. I once got so frustrated with a concours entrant that I asked him where he had got the 1961 air to pump up the tyres. One C type, XKC 020, was stolen in the New Orleans in 1970 and has never been seen again - I wonder if it is still hidden somewhere and if so it must be the most original even though it then it had blanked out headlights and a few modifications judging by the pictures. Mind you, Terry Larson's XKC 017 has a long race history but is still pretty original apart from the roll bar.
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