This car was one of the entries in the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.
It's the Jaguar D-Type of Christopher Mann, chassis XKD558, which the programme of the event says was a 1955 model and had a 3,800cc engine, presumably the 3,781cc 6-cylinder inline XK6 engine released in 1958 and which were fitted in some D-Types in place of the original 3,441cc engine. The DVLA record shows the car as a 1956 model and says it now has a 3.4 litre engine. The car was originally supplied to a buyer in Canada. later moving to the USA where it suffered two accidents, being rebuilt after the first one with a 7 litre Ford V8 engine and being virtually written off in the second crash. It was eventually rebuilt and after owners in France, and then the USA again, it found its way to Christopher Mann in the UK.
Here's the car approaching Brooklands corner during a practice session at the Silverstone meeting.
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