I photographed this car at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993 where it was listed in the programme as taking part in just one race - the Historic Car Championship which was race number 7.
It's the 1955 Jaguar D-Type of Paul Burdell, chassis XKD512 with the 3.8 litre version of the straight-6 engine and is bearing the number 88 that it was allocated in race 7 - but note that the number 8's are not identical
This is a photograph I took at Foulston's chicane during race number 2, the HSCC Classic Sports Car Championship race bearing the number 8 which it had presumably been allocated as a late entrant in that race.
Later in the day it showed the race number 88 for race number 7, but with identical number 8's. I can only assume that it was wearing the odd '8' on the first photograph because it was on its way to or from the scrutineering bay where it would presumably have to show the numbers it was to wear in the two races, and the odd '8' was a temporary one that could be removed for the benefit of the scrutineers.
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