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Monday 8 June 2020

1955 Jaguar D-Type

This car competed in the Champagne Charles Heidsieck Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1993.
It's the 1955 Jaguar D-Type of Willie Tuckett and has the 6-cylinder inline 3,442cc XK6 engine designed by chief engineer William Heynes. It is chassis #XKD517, a car at one time owned by Henry Taylor and later went to the Border Reivers Racing Team in Scotland where it was driven, amongst others, by a young Jim Clark.

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