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Get an ex-Moss C-Type in your garage

19 November, 2015

 

In 2016, specialist auction house Bonhams will return to Monaco to  present an exclusive sale of 40 exceptional cars in a sale timed to coincide with the Grand Prix de Moncao Historique 2016.

The highlight of the sale — scheduled to take place on May 13, 2016 — will undoubtedly be XKC 011 — the works 1952 Jaguar C-Type once raced by Stirling Moss.

Built new for Jaguar’s racing team early in 1952, this C-Type had its on-track debut at Silverstone and was driven by Peter Walker. Fitted with special long-nose/long-tail aerodynamic bodywork, the car was then entered for the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, but even with a driving team of Stirling Moss and Peter Walker, the Jaguar failed to finish.

Subsequently reverting to standard-body form, XKC 011 would make racing appearances at the 1952 Goodwood Nine Hours race, and set FTDs at Shelsley Walsh and Prescott hill climbs. In 1953, Moss took on the Mille Miglia in the C-Type, while Tommy Wisdom used it for that year’s Targa Florio. The Jaguar was later loaned to the Belgian race team Ecurie Francorchamps. and finally sold on. In later years, XKC 011 would become one of the best-known C-Types on the British club and, later, classic racing scene.

Performance art

4 April, 2025

Shelby’s targets were Superformance — a South African company that wanted to sell its versions of these cars in the US — and the US-based Factory Five. Their defence was that the name and shape of the Cobra car were abandoned when Shelby American ceased production of these particular models back in the 1960s.
Shelby countered with: “We spent millions of dollars creating the name and the car and winning the world championship. These knock-off-car guys don’t deserve the credit or the profit for what my team and Ford accomplished in the ’60s.”
Superformance painted an even bigger target on its back by also producing a version of Shelby’s Daytona coupé. Other cars in its production stable were Mk1 GT40 and 1962 Corvette Grand Sport replicas, but we’ll focus here on the Daytona.

Design accord

28 March, 2025

You can’t get much more of an art deco car than a Cord — so much so that new owners, Paul McCarthy and his wife, Sarah Selwood, went ahead and took their Beverly 812 to Napier’s Art Deco Festival this year, even though the festival itself had been cancelled.
“We took delivery of the vehicle 12 days before heading off to Napier. We still drove it all around at the festival,” says Paul.
The utterly distinctive chrome grille wrapping around the Cord’s famous coffin-shaped nose, and the pure, clean lines of the front wing wheel arches, thanks to its retractable headlamps, are the essence of deco. This model, the Beverly, has the finishing touch of the bustle boot that is missing from the Westchester saloon.