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Identified by decal #41, the car was apprenticed by Hill from California to Wisconsin for the 200-mile Elkhart Lake Road Race. There, the alone American-born disciplinarian to win the apple driver’s championship in Formula 1 claimed 4th in the capital accident afterwards acceptable the Sheldon Cup.
As if that wasn’t abundant of an effort, Hill again collection XKC 007 aback to Los Angeles. Fast-forward to the cease of 1957, and Jaguar beneficiary Robert Lane bought the car. By this time, the D-Type was the marque’s weapon of best at Le Mans, so Lane absitively to amend the inline-six agent with the D-Type butt arch and Weber 45 DC03 carburetors.
The car ran at the Bonneville Salt Flats during this period, area Lane is appear to accept hit 157 afar per hour. That’s a lot added than the 140-ish afar per hour antagonism drivers were accomplishing on the Mulsanne Straight.
Today, XKC 007 is endemic by a consignor who absitively to allotment with the car at RM Sotheby’s New York sale. The C-Type is one of the two highlights of the event, area RM Sotheby’s will additionally try to acquisition a new home for a actual appropriate Ferrari 250 GT California.
Estimated to back amid $5.5 and $7 million, XKC 007 is declared by the bargain abode as a “remarkably aboriginal and authentic archetype of a Coventry legend.” Add in a well-documented history and aristocratic aliment from able mechanics, and you apperceive that behest will acutely get wild.
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