Jaguar type: Jaguar C Type

The ex-Le Mans 24-Hour Jaguar C-Type ‘POV 114’ has sold for €7.25m at Bonhams’ Monaco Sale Bonhams achieved total sales of €15.3 million at its Monaco auction, with the ex-Le Mans Jaguar C-type exceeding pre-sale estimates, finishing at €7,245,000. One car that found itself a new owner after taking part in a series of classic races (including Le Mans) during those times is this Jaguar XK120c C-Type. Painted in British Racing Green and sporting a functioning 3.4-liter six-cylinder engine good for 220 Proteus is a well respected manufacturer of replica sports cars based in the U.K. It currently offers convertible versions of the Jaguar C-Type (pictured at right) and D-Type that are near spot-on doppelgangers of the originals. Much has been happening in One of the most legendary Jaguar race cars, the 1953 Jaguar C-type Works Lightweight, will be offered at RM Sotheby’s Monterey, California, auction in August, marking the first time any of the three original works Lightweights have been at public auction. After the sweet success of Jaguar’s hurried XK120, they developed the XK120C, or C-Type, as a endurance racing version. With it, Jaguar embarked on their first racing program aimed at winning the 24 Hours of LeMans outright. On its first attempt and only F Stands for Feral Aesthetically, the F bears no family resemblance to Jaguar’s last great sports car, the E-type, allegedly endorsed by Enzo Ferrari as the most beautiful car ever created. The 2014 F looks more like a son of the C-type, the Jaguar racer .

The Mille Miglia is probably the best venue in the calendar for lovers of older cars (Goodwood Festival of Speed is excellent too), and especially those looking to spot the rarer models, the ones which are kept in storage for most of the year, and only Jaguar C-Type The Jaguar C-Type won the 24 hours of Le Mans at its first attempt in 1951, and was redeveloped following later reliability issues to take first place in 1953 as well. Driven by Sir Stirling Moss in period and worth millions today The biggest problem with the Jaguar C-Type is that it's become an incredibly expensive car. That means that few will privilege of owning one, or even driving one. It's easy to dismiss replica cars as not being the real Thing, but perhaps we should give This August, RM Sotheby’s will auction off a motorsports legend, the second of three Jaguar C-type Lightweights built for the 1953 Le Mans 24 Hours. Chassis XKC 052 finished fourth overall that year. The Scottish team Ecurie Ecosse campaigned the car in .