The Jaguar C-type “Continuation car” has the 1953 Le Mans 24 Hours race specification.
If you weren’t around in 1953 to watch the Le Mans 24 Hours — and it’s pretty likely you weren’t — you missed the triumph of one of the most beautiful race cars of all-time, the Jaguar C-type. The 1953 Le Mans win was the second in three years for the illustrious model. Tony Bolt and Duncan Hamilton drove the car to victory in the race four laps ahead of Stirling Moss and Peter Walker in another C-type. One of the 1953 model’s chief claims to fame, beyond its simple beauty, was its innovative use of disc brakes, developed by Jaguar and Dunlop.
Now Jaguar Classic has announced the creation of a “strictly limited” production run of new C-type Continuation cars, which will be hand-built at the Jaguar Land Rover Classic Works facility in Coventry, U.K. Though said to be…
