With hammer — Jaguar C-Type

At the auction exhibited racing Jaguar C-Type «unlucky pilot.»

$ 7.5 million — a minimal cost, offered for sale racing roadster Jaguar C-Type 1952 release. It was on this car appeared in the «24 Hours of Le Mans» Stirling Moss and Peter Walker.

The aerodynamics of the car was modified for the daily marathon in 1952, but failed to finish due to a technical descent associated with the malfunction of the power plant. But the history of the Jaguar C-Type is not over.

The following year, he returned to the standard body. The car appeared in Mille Miglia competition and Sicilian Targa Florio, and then in the British Empire Trophy, where tireless Stirling Moss took fourth place.


In 1963, the car has been preserved. Auction house Bonhams will put it up for sale May 13, 2016 in Monte Carlo.

By the way, in 2012 with a hammer left the Ferrari 250 GTO, built for Stirling Moss. For him bailed out of $ 35 million.

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