1962 Jaguar E-Type Lightweight

I took this photograph at Hislops chicane during the Innes Ireland Cup race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2015.

It's Christopher Scragg's 1962 Jaguar E-Type Lightweight and has the 3,781cc 6-cylinder inline Jaguar XK6 engine.

Jaguar E-Type Lightweight

This car competed in two races at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993.

Described in the programme of the event as Allen Lloyd's 4.2 litre 1964 Jaguar E-Type, it has the looks of one of the 12 Lightweight competition models built in the 1960s, but I can't find anything to confirm that this is a genuine Lightweight. Eighteen chassis numbers were set aside in 1963 for the Lightweight models, but only 12 were built - the six additional cars were eventually built in 2014-15.

Here's the car at what was then Foulston's chicane (now Britten's) in the Inter-Marque Championship Race.....

.....and here later in the day at Lodge Corner in the MG Car Club/AMOC Thoroughbred & Classic Sports Car Championship Race. Allen Lloyd was at one time President of the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust.

Jaguar E-type

This car was one of a group of Jaguars that paraded round the Oulton Park circuit during a break in the racing at the Jaguar Drivers' Club's Cheshire Cats Trophy Meeting in April 1987.

There's no information about the car in the programme of the event, but it appears to be a Jaguar E-type Lightweight replica.....

.....with Ecurie Ecosse badging.

Jaguar E-Type Lightweight

I photographed this car at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006 where it may have competed in the GT Class in the Sports Racing Masters race, but it isn't listed as a competitor in the programme of the event.

It looks like a Jaguar E-Type Lightweight, of which 12 were built in 1963/64. Checking through the chassis numbers of the Lightweight cars (850658 to 850669) I find that only two were built with a fixed-head body - 850662, the Lindner/Nocker car, and 850663, the Lumsden/Sargent car - and this car most closely resembles 850662, which had the registration number 4868 WK. I've found photographs of replicas of the Lindner/Nocker car, however, and it appears that 5497 WK may be one of these. Peter Lindner, incidentally, was killed driving his E-Type in an accident at Montlhéry in 1964, and the car's race number was 16. The car was wrecked, but not rebuilt until 2011 - so it can't have been the car I photographed in 2006. In 2014 Jaguar announced that they were to build a further 6 Lightweights, and I've seen photographs of the first of these, but I've not yet seen that all 6 have been completed.

Proteus Mercedes Benz 300SLR

This is a photograph taken at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996 and is of a replica of a Mercedes Benz 300SLR made by Proteus Cars Ltd. Proteus are better known for their replica Jaguar D-type, C-type and XJ13. The car next to the Mercedes is a Jaguar XJ13 and the E-Type Lightweight on the far left is also possibly a Proteus car. The 300SLR replica has been built to resemble the Stirling Moss/Denis Jenkinson 1955 Mille Miglia winning car, is one of six replicas made and is possibly the one shown in this Hofmann's website. That website calls it a recreation rather than a replica, but I recall that Denis Jenkinson called all such cars 'fakes'.