Lister Jaguar Monza

This car competed in the VSCC Flockhart Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006.

It's the 1958 Lister Jaguar Monza of Rod Jolley, a car that was created to run in the second Race of Two Worlds in 1958 which was contested by a team of American Indianapolis cars against a motley collection of European cars on the banked oval track at Monza. At the 1957 event Ecurie Ecosse had entered a team of D-Type Jaguars for the race but they fared no better than the other European cars, so for the 1958 race the team built a single seater car with a Lister chassis and a 3.8 litre Jaguar engine. It was built at such short notice that the work was actually completed in the paddock at Monza, leaving no time for it to be painted so it ran in the race with the bare metal finish as seen above, but proved to be slower than the Ecurie Ecosse D-Type Jaguars that also ran in the race. The car ran for a time in historic races in the 1990s painted in the Ecurie Ecosse blue livery, but is now back in its original bare metal finish. Incidentally, to suit the American Indianapolis cars both the 1957 and 1958 races were run anti-clockwise round the Monza track instead of the clockwise direction in which races there were usually run.