Every year again, RM Sotheby's puts one on it again this year, but this time it will be a "goal", as the Englishman used to say. What am I talking about? At the beginning of last year in Paris a Jaguar D-Type went under the hammer, I reported about it in "Legends under the hammer" and now a bright red Jaguar D-Type "short-nose". Normally you can find such a color combination in Italian sports cars but no, so this Jaguar with the chassis number XKD518 actually went off the production line in 1956.
Originally delivered to Henlys, Manchester, UK, Bernard Charles "Bernie" Ecclestone first bought it, which soon passed it on to the racing driver Peter Blond. Blond took part in several races with him, including first place on the Snetterton circuit and a ninth in the Goodwood Trophy. In his long life so far, he has passed through many other famous hands, such as that of racing driver Jean Bloxham or Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant. In the meantime, it had also been repainted with a classic Racing Green and equipped with a passenger seat. In 1982, like many of his contemporaries, he finally left the European continent and became one of many in the car collection of George Stauffer in beautiful Wisconsin, USA.
Yesterday he found another owner. With the bidder number 3791, he paid 5.45 million dollars (about 4 million British pounds) for the red flash from Coventry. There's only one thing you can say: "Bernie, Bernie, would you have just kept him."
Originally delivered to Henlys, Manchester, UK, Bernard Charles "Bernie" Ecclestone first bought it, which soon passed it on to the racing driver Peter Blond. Blond took part in several races with him, including first place on the Snetterton circuit and a ninth in the Goodwood Trophy. In his long life so far, he has passed through many other famous hands, such as that of racing driver Jean Bloxham or Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant. In the meantime, it had also been repainted with a classic Racing Green and equipped with a passenger seat. In 1982, like many of his contemporaries, he finally left the European continent and became one of many in the car collection of George Stauffer in beautiful Wisconsin, USA.
Yesterday he found another owner. With the bidder number 3791, he paid 5.45 million dollars (about 4 million British pounds) for the red flash from Coventry. There's only one thing you can say: "Bernie, Bernie, would you have just kept him."