Description
1953 C-Type Jaguar Le Mans alloy replica.
- Right Hand Drive
- All alloy body (No fiberglass)
- Utilising 1955 Jaguar XK140 mechanicals. (3. 5 liter Engine, transmission, suspension etc.)
- Jaguar disk brakes on the front end. Not XK140 drums. 150 perhaps?
- Registered as a 1955.
- Built in early 1990s. Huge file of build photos available.
- Extremely authentic and faithful replica. Including spare spark plugs and dual coils. (However, the coils are dummies. Car is fitted with hidden Crane electronic ignition.)
- Show room condition with mild and authentic patina and full tonneau cover.
- Alloy body and accurate and authentic chromoly tube frame hand built by Aubrey Finburgh of Classic Autos in the UK.
- Ready for the road. Very fierce, loud, demanding, but fun to drive.
- Roll bar is removable (however, in a nod to modern traffic, it has a high level LED brake light on it.)
- Last registered in Ireland and is road legal.
- The C has spent the last 18 years on display in the Malta Classic Car Museum in Qawra.
- Will consider offers in the vicinity of: €170, 000 (£150, 000. Or $200, 000USD)
-Many years ago my father bought a very rusty early XK140 which turned out to have the competition 3. 5 liter C-Type engine. That engine gave Dad an interesting idea. A replica body and frame was sourced from the UK, then all the mechanicals were stripped from the 140 and totally rebuilt, and the car you see here was assembled. The car spent 15 years motoring around Ireland regularly, but has spent the last 18 years hibernating in Malta. The collection is now being dispersed. The C-Type has recently been woken up, test driven and is ready for the road. (The poor old 140 was eventually rebuilt with modern Jag mechanicals and is now a thing of beauty!)
