I photographed this car at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998 where it was one of the display cars and didn't take any part in the racing.
It's one of Brian Lister's early cars, built in 1954, and was powered by the 1,971cc Bristol 6-cylinder inline engine derived from the pre-war BMW 328 unit. This particular car was chiefly driven by Jack Sears, but the Lister Bristol achieved much success in the hands of Archie Scott-Brown in the mid-1950s. Lister went on to develop the more well-known Lister Jaguar in 1957, utilising the 3,442cc Jaguar D-Type engine.
On 17 July 2013 I showed photographs of this car at the Coys meeting at Silverstone in 1999 when it was driven by Barry Wood.
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