Description
The D-Type is presented in generally good order and runs/ drives well. Current owner purchased the vehicle from Bonhams in 2014 and has 3 previous owners. Included in the history file various invoices dating from 1989 - 1996The car has just had a service and tune up. Constructed in 1989/ 90, this replica of Jaguar's legendary Le Mans winning D-Type uses an LR Roadsters Ram LM body/ chassis kit, Jaguar XK engine and manual/ overdrive gearbox. Constructed around a tubular-steel backbone spaceframe chassis, the LR Roadsters D-Type featured steel-braced glassfibre bodywork in the long nose, long fin, passenger-carrying style with full width windscreen first seen on the works Le Mans cars in 1955. Based almost exclusively on Jaguar running gear, unlike some of its rivals, the Ram LM was described by Kit Cars & Specials magazine as having 'undisputed mechanical integrity' and reckoned 'one of the most desirable replicas we have laid our hands on'Powered by an XK engine prepared by the Forward Engineering Company Ltd of Meriden, Coventry. Paperwork dated November 1989 states that the engine would be enlarged to 4. 5 litres (93x100mm bore/ stroke) incorporating gas flowed ports, 1 7/ 8" inlet valves, 45DCOE Weber carburettors, WAD camshafts, heavy duty valve springs, heavy duty con-rods and a Tuftrided crankshaft, the reciprocating components being balanced to zero. A maximum output of around 300bhp at 5, 500rpm was estimated.
