Chapter 2 - Jaguar Racing – 60’s

Jaguar E2A Prototype - #6 LeMans 1960 –

Briggs Cunningham entry - Drivers Walt Hansgen & Dan Gurney – DNF, 89 laps, Head Gasket

Professionally built Provence Moulage kit, 1/43 scale, Resin, France, Ref #K315

“Briggs Cunningham, the American sportsman and gentleman racer, had, in the mid-fifties, transferred his allegiance to Jaguar. He opened a large dealership and ran D-types in American colours. Whilst visiting Jaguar in early 1960, he was shown the prototype, E2A, and persuaded Lyons to let him run it at Le Mans that year. Lack of development time mitigated against the venture and, although it set the fastest time in practice, retirement followed in the race during the early hours of Sunday morning.”

1960 Silverstone – 2^nd Place

Gary Oxley, #1 out of 5 produced – Certificate of Authenticity (England)

JAG400 Equipe Endeavour MkII Saloon - signed by driver Stirling Moss

1961 Snetterton - Winner

Jaguar Model Club – Club Model for 2003, #19 out of 50 produced – Certificate of Authenticity

VCD400 Equipe Endeavour MkII Saloon - signed by driver Jack Sears & owner Tommy Sopwith

Probuilt by Ian Burkenshaw using Gary Oxley model (England) as base

1962 LeMans

1962 LeMans E-type Coupe - Briggs Cunningham (US) & Roy Salvadori (GB) - 4th place

(Highest E-type Finish at Le Mans)

Kyosho, 1/43 scale, ref#K03064A, diecast, China/Japan, released November 1999

1963 Sebring

Jaguar Model Club – Club Model for 2000, #13 out of 50 produced – Certificate of Authenticity

The Lost Lightweight - signed by drivers Ed Leslie & Frank Morrill – Sebring 12 hours

Probuilt by Ian Burkenshaw using Provence Moulage resin model (France) as base, 1/43 scale

“Only twelve genuine lightweight E-types were made with eleven being accounted for, one had been missing presumed dead since late 1963. Not until 1999 did the missing car turn up after the only owner passed away, it wasn't until his sons tried to sell the car that the missing piece of the Jaguar jigsaw fell into place. Chassis No. S850660 was the third lightweight built of twelve and only ever covered 2,663 miles in two races, including practice miles. Ed Leslie drove it alone at Laguna Seca in a 50 mile race, then Ed shared with Frank Morrill when they raced in the Sebring 12 hour race finishing 7th and winning their class. I didn't hesitate to choose Provence Moulage again with their 1963 Le Mans lightweight E-type being the best available kit, to produce our model. As each year as gone by, our standards have kept high, but with this model we ventured into new territory producing our own decal transfers and modifying the standard kits with the help of Provence Moulage, also the JMC cast new parts for the models for the first time. The standard PM kit was modified as follows : We removed the rear oil cooler on the lower rear valance, removed and repositioned the fuel filler cap, repositioned the boot vents, removed and replaced the door handles and race number illumination lights with separate chrome items, removed and replaced the bonnet straps, removed the bonnet spot lamps, added a quick top-up oil tank recess and cap into the bonnet, added a centre spotlight in the nose opening, added a drivers air scoop on the drivers window, added a better gearlever, handbrake and steering wheel, removed and made a new full length straight through exhaust and finally we made our own Dunlop wheels ...”

“the car finished first in class and seventh overall--beating the other Jaguar cars entered and claiming the highest result for any of the Lightweights in a major international race. The car was then campaigned throughout the rest of the 1963 season, and at the end of the year was sold for $5,230 to Howard Gidovlenko, an ex-Air Force test pilot turned businessman who had initially planned to race the Jag in 1964. But Gidovlenko's marine-racing-engine business was becoming very successful--and consuming all of the man's time. So he put the car in his L.A. garage where it remained for 35 years.

Following Howard Gidovlenko's death in early 1998, the family was clearing out his personal effects and discovered an old sports car hidden under a number of boxes. Not realizing how significant the car was, the family put out a message on the Internet appealing for any information. Soon the world was aware that the "lost Lightweight"--believed destroyed in 1963--had been found in a private garage in a Los Angeles suburb completely untouched and with only 2,663 original miles on the odometer!

After much ado, RM Auctions sold the car to in August 1998 at the Monterey Sports Car Auction to an English purchaser. The car was air-freighted to England where a painstaking restoration designed to preserve all of the car's many original aspects was entrusted to famed Sussex Jaguar experts Lynx Motors International. It was then entered in the March 1999 Sebring Historic Racing Endurance Challenge where, more than three decades after its last race, it won its class in the two races it entered.”

PM made this Lightweight E-type kit for the JMC 2000 club model, only 52 were sold, 50 for the members and one each for the drivers of the car.

1963 LeMans

1963 LeMans - Briggs Cunningham (US) & Bob Grossman (GB) - 9th place

“Finished with front part of #14’s bonnet strapped on”

Kyosho, 1/43 scale, ref#K03063A, diecast, China/Japan, released November 1999

1963 LeMans Costin Lister Coupe

#17 car of Peter Lumsden & Peter Sargent - DNF – Engine 4^th hr, classified 42^nd

Provence Moulage, 1/43 scale, ref #K210, Handbuilt, Resin, France

1964 LeMans

Le Mans 1964 E-type Lightweight Dr. Samir Klat Lowdrag Coupe
#17 car of Peter Lumsden & Peter Sargent - DNF – Gearbox, classified 39^th
Profil 24 – 1/24 scale, ref # p24028, Handbuilt Resin, France

Purchased through H&H Auctions , England

Vroom Models, 1/43 scale, resin, France – ref # LM64No17

Originally part of Mike Tate collection, purchased through Vectis Auctions

Le Mans 1964 E-type Lightweight Dr. Samir Klat Lowdrag Coupe

Signed by Drivers Pater Lumsden, Peter Sargent, and Designer Samir Klat
Classic Jaguar Miniatures (CJM - Gary Oxley) , 1/43 scale, #23 of 50, Certificate of Authenticity

Le Mans 1964 E-type Lightweight Factory Lowdrag Coupe / Peter Lindner Racing
#16 car of Peter Lindner & Peter Knocker - DNF – Head Gasket, classified 30^th
SMTS – 1/24 scale, ref #CL6LE, Factory Handbuilt White Metal, England, Limited edition

Custom Plinth for 1/24 SMTS by Gary Oxley – Jaguar Model Club –

Signed by Driver Peter Nocker

Le Mans 1964 E-type Lightweight Factory Lowdrag Coupe / Peter Lindner Racing
Provence Moulage, 1/43 scale, ref #S850662, #120 of 300, Resin, France

This Lindner lowdrag was released built by Starter (PM) from the updated PM kit K1807.

This was a limited edition of 300 in their Cars & Drivers series

Roger Mac Accident Diorama - 1964

29th RAC International Tourist Trophy Race, Goodwood – Aug 29, 1964 – retired 70th lap

Marque Models – 1/57 scale, pewter, ref #B339AQ

Ecurie Ecosse Race Transporter

The Ecurie Ecosse transporter, based on a lengthened Commer bus chassis and with an amazing two stroke, supercharged diesel three cylinder engine which has six horizontally-opposed pistons driving the crankshaft through rockers, was built for the famous Scottish racing team in 1959 by bodybuilder Alexanders of Falkirk, to a design by aeronautical engineer Selby Howgate. Construction was completed in 1960. The team used it for about six years, carrying D-types and, later, the Tojeiro-Climaxes that were raced after the D-types became uncompetitive

For a time disappearing, it ended up in 1992 in the hands of collector Dick Skipworth.  Lynx, best known for D-types and the XJ-S Eventer, started its restoration in earnest only six months before the transporter made its UK debut at the Coys Historic Festival at Silverstone in 1993. Lynx chairman John Mayston-Taylor reckons that about 3000 man-hours were expended on the project, often with five men working simultaneously, along with a £25,000 bill for parts.

SMTS - 1/43 Scale, White Metal, Ref SP2, Factory Built, Ser # 165