| D-Type | British Racing Green | ||||
| Open Two Seater | |||||
| Right Hand Drive | |||||
| SMK Oy (Suomen Maanviljeliäin Kauppa) | |||||
| E2044-9 | |||||
| H2030 | Helsinki | ||||
| GBD138 | |||||
| Finland | |||||
| 1956 | British Racing Green | ||||
| 2009 | |||||
| Rest: Concours | |||||
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Record Creation: Entered on 25 October 2008.
Database Updates: Show dataplate edits
Car Number Prefixes and Suffixes:
- XKD indicates the model is a D-Type.
Car History
From Jaguar Sports Racing Cars
Supplied to Suomen Maanviljelijain Kauppa Oy, Tampere, Finland; sold to Kurt Lincoln (Helsinki); 1956 over 2-litre race, Djurgard Park, 1st; raced successfully on road, ice and sand; raced by Timo Makinen; 1959/60 overhauled at works; 1961 Formula Libre race, Central Automobile Club of the USSR (believed to be the only time a D-type has ever raced in Russia), H. Hietarinta, 1st; 1966 sold to Nigel Moores; rebodied possibly using body made by Williams & Pritchard; 1988 sold to Yoshijuki Hayashi (Japan). Later reported to be two cars with XKD 530 identity.
One car built around original front subframe and long-nose bodywork, which Jaguar World states to be the car that carries the correct identity; owned by Andrew Baber (Forest of Daan, UK).
A second car was built up around the original damaged monocoque and original engine, transmission, and tail section. acquired from the Moores estate; 199? offered for sale in Brooks auction; 1993 passed, via Adrian Hamilton, to Arthur Urciuoli (USA).
Philip Porter is the author of numerous books on the Jaguar marque. In additional to writing books and magazine articles and managing several businesses, he runs the XK Club and E-Type club from Worcestershire, England. His latest books include the Jaguar Scrapbook and the Stirling Moss 1929 - 1954 Scrapbook.
© Porter & Porter
Photos of XKD530
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Exterior Photos (9)
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Comments
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2008-10-30 05:02:02 | DB writes:
Reported in Jaguar Quarterly summer 1990: ' XKD 530, This D-Type was raced by Curt Lincoln in Finland and later by Timo Makinen (on ice!) before arriving in a rather sorry state with Nigel Moores in the 1960s. Thereafter its history becomes mixed, the front subframe being used to build up a long-nose style car with the monocoque centre section being passed on and eventually reunited with the original engine and gearbox of XKD530, one built around the monocoque and the other around the front sub frame.'
2009-03-03 09:03:50 | Pekka T. writes:
Finnish Jaguar Driver's Club has a series of articles about this car. Bought new by Curt Lincoln, 1st at Eläintarhanajot / Djurgårdsloppet 1956 dozens of prizes on tarmac, gravel and ice. Raced until 1965 when rules were changed again excluding big engines (3.8L fitted at the factory, 08932 miles recorded on Dec. 3rd 1959) Sold to England and car was fitted with a new body, engine, gearbox etc. The original body (monoque) and other parts were used to build another car. Finally an enthusiast bought both cars and put them back together, cheers for that!
2009-03-03 15:56:58 | Pekka T. writes:
No, sorry that one action photo must be from 1960 or 1961 as the car still bears (again) the Scuderia Askolin colours. When it arrived from England in February 1960 and had received the 3.8L engine as well as a full width windscreen, passenger door and the long fin in the head fairing it never had before it had (obviously) been painted BRG again at the factory. Reportedly Mr. Lincoln was extremely disappointed with the paint quality and furious about the fact that the engine showed problems at various rpm. The probelms were tweaked, the car was immediately painted white, and for the summer again white nose, dark blue.
2009-04-14 18:02:02 | pauls writes:
According to "Jaguar D Type & XKSS" by Graham Robson car was dispatched Feb. 13, 1956. Exported to Finland.
2009-11-02 10:00:56 | pauls writes:
Some somewhat current pictures of the car at:
www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/chassisNum.aspx?carID=7337&iDNumID=9120
2009-11-13 15:19:33 | Pekka T. writes:
Sorry Paul, that was the distributor. First owner was Mr. Curt Lincoln, at the time still Swedish citizen (he later received the Finnish nationality) who won innumerous races with various cars. He had ordered the car though the Finnish Jaguar distributor as the most important race in Finland was won the previous year by Michael Head (GB) in another D-type (most likely XKD406). The first race for XKD530 was in May 1956, 1st OA "Eläintarhanajot" (finnish) or "Djurgårdloppet" (the same race name in swedish) SMK (Suomen Maanviljelijäin Kauppa Oy) stands for Finnish Farmer's Store Ltd. :)
This car also won the first (and only) Leningrad Grand Prix in 1961! This was a street track around the Kirov stadium, nowadays also that stadium has been demolished so only some photos and memories survive! (all of these races were on tarmac) BTW, the later "ice-racer" fame came from races run mostly from 1960 to ca. 1965 in the winter on ice of lakes or the Baltic sea up north! Some pictures from 1963 from Oulu show the long spikes on tyres. Traction was huge, according to spectator the D-type would do "wheelies" and eventually broke a drive shaft!
2009-11-13 16:30:47 | Pekka T. writes:
can bee seen on youtube, from Villa d'Este 2009: there are the predecessors first please count the mistakes by the presenter (Simon K.) starting from "Swallow Sidecar" for S.S. :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3rMOUmzK8w
2010-03-09 14:00:52 | DB writes:
Advertised in June 1993 edition of Classic & Sportscar magazine: "realistically priced at £295,000" ... ....
Turn back the time machine !!, ....... oh well I guess could no more afford it then than I do now.