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That Jag is an art show all by itself!
aeronca65t
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Very nice Jaguar.
I saw a D-type last weekend. Not in a museum either, but hammering around Lime Rock at speed.
Also; See the #14 Ferrari in the background?
It got third overall and first in class at LeMans in '61.
And looks like a nice Porsche 550 in the back too.
Interesting that all three of these cars are available as replicas.
I saw a D-type last weekend. Not in a museum either, but hammering around Lime Rock at speed.
Also; See the #14 Ferrari in the background?
It got third overall and first in class at LeMans in '61.
And looks like a nice Porsche 550 in the back too.
Interesting that all three of these cars are available as replicas.
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Quite correct... and here is a page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_XKSS . They even refer to the McQueen on too. A 1957 vintage (though I think they all came from that year). 18 were made.
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Of course, this was also the car implicated in the tragic 1955 LeMans accident (where 82 people were killed). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_300_SLR
Evidently the drum-brakes on this car were terrible... and the car became part of the infamous Austin-Healey and Jag crash. I can still see that video in my mind's-eye as part of the Mercedes went sailing into the grandstand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEk85gKJN6k&feature=related They pulled out of racing for a time.
Evidently the drum-brakes on this car were terrible... and the car became part of the infamous Austin-Healey and Jag crash. I can still see that video in my mind's-eye as part of the Mercedes went sailing into the grandstand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEk85gKJN6k&feature=related They pulled out of racing for a time.
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I wonder how Moss and Jenkinson managed to average almost 100mph around 1000 miles of 1955 Italian roads in a car with "terrible" brakes? The 300SLR won every race it entered, apart from le Mans, when the team was withdrawn after the crash.
The brakes were not terrible at all, but they weren't quite up to the Jaguar's Dunlop disks, and the airbrake helped level the playing field, particularly after the long Mulsanne straight.
Interestingly, Moss used the airbrake also as a steadying aero device, though perhaps he was the only one to do so.
The brakes were not terrible at all, but they weren't quite up to the Jaguar's Dunlop disks, and the airbrake helped level the playing field, particularly after the long Mulsanne straight.
Interestingly, Moss used the airbrake also as a steadying aero device, though perhaps he was the only one to do so.