Description

Jaguar D Type cockpit, the sports racing car designed using cutting edge aircraft technology by Jaguar Cars Ltd. between 1954 and 1957. Designed by Chief Engineer and Technical Director William Heynes specifically to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, it shared the straight-6 XK engine and many mechanical components with its C-Type predecessor. Its structure, however, was radically different, with Heynes design and innovative monocoque construction and slippery aerodynamics that integrated aviation technology, including in some examples a distinctive vertical stabilizer.

Engine displacement began at 3.4 litres, was enlarged to 3.8 L in 1957, and reduced to 3.0 L in 1958 when Le Mans rules limited engines for sports racing cars to that maximum. D-Types won Le Mans in 1955, 1956 and 1957. After Jaguar temporarily retired from racing as a factory team, the company offered the remaining unfinished D-Types as street-legal XKSS versions, whose perfunctory road-going equipment made them eligible for production sports car races in America. In 1957 25 of these cars were in various stages of completion when a factory fire destroyed nine of them.

Total production is thought by some to have totaled 71 D-Types, including 18 for factory teams and 53 for privateers (plus an additional 16 D-Types were converted into road-legal XKSS versions). Jaguar is quoted as claiming it built 75 D-Types.

Limited edition print of 1/25, hand signed, numbered and embossed with a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA).

Art prints are produced via fine art digital printing using specialist archival pigment inks and 308gsm acid-free paper with excellent depth of colour, longevity and stability.

The print comes with white borders on all sides to allow ease of handling and framing.

Signed CoA includes image, name and details of the work and is printed on 308gsm paper.

We normally aim to have orders printed, processed and out for shipping within 10 working days.