As the 250 GTO is thought of as the ultimate racing Ferrari, the same can be said of the D-type, representing THE ultimate British racing car. This car was shot at Sebring in the mid-1980s. No serial #. I am the copyright holder. Lets see your favorite D-type pics and videos! KevFla Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
D-types are amazing. 60 years old and they can still out brake most cars on the market today. My contribution (my copyrights). Cheers Jim PS what is the C-type question? Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
My friend Tom Mittlers at my shop. Making some clear headlight covers. Thanks Norm Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I was following an earlier story on the net about the real Jaguar XKC 023 now belonging to a Mr. Jenny. He had bought it with a Devin body on it but gradually determined it was a real C-type Jag. But meanwhile when 023 was first smashed in a race, some parts had migrated off the original car to two replicas, one belonging to a man named Jaye in the UK who was using the SN of the C-type on his replica. This car had been sold to a man in Canada who for 24 years thought he owned a real C-type. Some of the other parts had gone to a German man who had a replica which he had gone so far as to enter as 023 in a major vintage race and have Jaguar's classic section sanction as the real thing. I only got as far in my research to find out the Canadian owner of the British made replica owner had sold his replica to Mr. Jenny so that the real parts of his replica could at last be reunited with the real car and any claim of the replica being the real thing made moot from that point on. But I haven't found what happened to the German owned replica--which 023 was it decided is the real car? This story here has some of it, but I can't find mention of the German owner of a replica unless it's buried in here and I missed it: Tales from the Barn : The Amazing Story of the Lost XKC023
There is no doubt the original chassis was in the Devin car. I believe Mr Jenny, bought the German car and removed the original parts from it reuniting them with the rest of 023. I know he has done this with two replicas. If you have a photo of the German car (in particular the gas cap and the windshield) I could verify it. Cheers Jim Since this is about D-types, another photo (my copyright) Image Unavailable, Please Login
Really ... why? Yes they were one of the first race cars with disc brakes but compared to modern cars with fatter tyres and bigger discs and calipers ... I would have thought like most old cars, GrandMa's Honda Civic road car would now out perform at least in the braking department. Have you seen TopGears drag race with an Aston Martin versus some modern family car ... embarrassing ... Pete
The calipers on a D-type are huge and very different than all the others I have seen from the 50's and 60's, the front ones have 6 pistons each. Each piston has its own brake pad. The rear calipers are 4 pistons each, again each one has its own brake pad. So there is a total of twenty brake pads clamping the rotors when the brakes are applied. There is also a power assist for the brakes that is driven off the gearbox. This combined with a car that only weighs around 2000 to 2200 lbs gives it some great stopping power. The last and main reason I said that is that braking from a 100 MPH is like throwing out an anchor, very reassuring. Yes modern brakes have come along way and a Honda Civic would probably match the D-type at normal speeds, but for high speed driving I would still pick the D-type brakes. Cheers Jim Note the pad wear indicator on this front caliper, also you can only see two of the brake pads in this shot there are four more you can not see. (my copyrights) Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I have been taking pictures of cars for 50 years but seldom shoot one that is wet, waiting for it to be toweled off. BUt it shows the lines more in that the drops are going their separate ways according to shape of the body. It has more mystery. Why don't you post more in different car areas on FC? Thanks, now I will shoot wet cars at Pebble as well as dry ones!
As a wee waxster, I invested in this tootsietoy #2 over 40 years ago . . . Good thing, 'cause they go for big bucks now. Vintage Tootsie Toy Purple Jaguar Roadster Die Cast Car Chicago USA 2 | eBay Image Unavailable, Please Login
Glad you enjoyed the photo. In regards to posting in other sections, I have several photos in the Bugatti section right now. Don't forget snow can also be interesting, although the light is a little flat. Still it is something you do not normally see today. Black and white can work for some photos too. (photos from 2009 my copyright) Cheers Jim Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I still have mine too! Hmmm, iPad trick inverting the photo. Sorry about that. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I see the D has been modified with a roll bar. Any more photos? You can pack a lot of tools and stuff in the headrest. Not much luggage room in one of these, you have to get creative. Cheers Jim
To me the best D-Type was always the one Michelotti fitted with the most beautiful coupe-body. A superb design-piece, and on a D chassis it must have been fantastic. Much later, Lynx took that body off and re-fitted a D-style body, using the Michelotti body on a chassis based on E-type mechanicals. Sorry, can't post photos, it should be easy to Google. Best, Jack.
I met the rotund affable Colin Crabbe at Monterey once, he told me about a D-type or XKSS he bought in Cuba, passed up by others because it had a E-type nose crudely fitted. Has there been any good stories about this? I gather he was one of the great barn finders.