The D type Jaguar has a very special place in history. Firstly it was built for a specific purpose, and its achievement of the objective was quite outstanding. It was designed to carry on where the C type left off — as a Le Mans winner par excellence. The D type won three times in a row, and became ..
Jaguar Sports Racing & Works Competition Cars from 1954 is the second volume of Andrew Whyte's definitive two-part history of Jaguar in motor sport. Taking up his narrative as the legendary D-type emerges from Browns Lane to be prepared for its Le Mans debut, Andrew Whyte charts the fascinating ..
Jaguar Sports Racing & Works Competition Cars from 1954 is the second volume of Andrew Whyte's definitive two-part history of Jaguar in motor sport. Taking up his narrative as the legendary D-type emerges from Browns Lane to be prepared for its Le Mans debut, Andrew Whyte charts the fascinating ..
‘Jaguars in Motorsport up to 1953’ is the definitive work on its subject, and a further volume was published covering the period from 1954. During writing, every month would bring forth new discover¬ies which had to be included as Andrew Whyte dug ever deeper into Jaguar's motor sport past, and as p..
Jaguar's series of XK sports cars used the remarkable twin overhead camshaft engine first exposed to the public in 1948 in the new XK120 two-seater, which took the motoring world by storm. In 1954 the XK120 was replaced by the more refined, mildly restyled XK140 model, with an increase in power, opt..
Jaguar is still the name which most people recall when they wish to associate the greatness of British motor racing with competition racing. It is to the nineteen-fifties that one must look for the start of the real success; the pre-war SS 100 Jaguars were, of course, most proficient both on the tra..
Long Straights and Hairpin Turns is the first of two volumes capturing a special time in Pacific Northwest sports car racing history, the 1950s and 1960s. The story, written with amazing detail, insight, and passion, starts in 1950 with the first four-cylinder exhaust notes at B.C.'s Abbotsford Airp..
Mike Hawthorn was born in 1929 in a small south Yorkshire town, the son of an engineer whose passion happened to be motorcycles and motor sport. The family moved soon afterwards to Farnham in Surrey, so that Leslie Hawthorn could be near the Brooklands race circuit. It was not long before his son Jo..
A memoir of the racing driver W.T.("Bill") Smith who successfully raced Jowett, Triumph, and Jaguar cars before his untimely death at the age of 20 while driving a Connaught in the 1955 Dundrod TT. Illustrated...
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