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Originally Posted by Llarry
Those who admire the styling of the Jaguar E type (who doesn't?) will appreciate the lines of the competition model D type of 1954-57. There is a definite family resemblance.
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"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."
Here's a XK150's rear deck lid...proudly proclaiming those LeMans wins...