| D-Type | British Racing Green | ||||
| Open Two Seater | |||||
| Right Hand Drive | |||||
| E4001-9 | |||||
| 1956 | |||||
| 2009 | |||||
| Rest: Concours | |||||
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Record Creation: Entered on 19 October 2008.
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Heritage Notes
Registered 393 RW.
Car Number Prefixes and Suffixes:
- XKD indicates the model is a D-Type.
Photos of XKD605
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2009-01-07 01:38:23 | Philippe writes:
This was the penultimate D-type, built in March 1956 and originally fitted with the latest specification fuel injection engine. It was allocated to the Jaguar works racing team, and was entered for the Reims 12-hour race which it won, driven by Duncan Hamilton and Ivor Bueb. In 1956, the 24-hour race at Le Mans was held later than normal, at the end of July, to allow for reconstruction following the disaster in the 1955 race. Cars were also required to be fitted with a passenger door, a full-width windscreen, and a smaller fuel tank.
At Le Mans, Mike Hawthorn and Bueb drove XKD 605 with race number 1 (and on trade plates 393 RW) but were kept back by persistent misfiring, eventually traced to a cracked fuel injection pipe. They finished sixth, while the winners were Flockhart and Sanderson in an Ecurie Ecosse entered D-type. And on 13 October 1956, Jaguar announced the company's withdrawal from racing.
XKD 605 was then lent to the American Cunningham/Momo team and was temporarily repainted in the American racing colours of blue and white. A new 3.8-litre engine was also fitted. In the 12-hour race at Sebring in 1957, the car was driven by Hawthorn and Bueb who finished third. The car stayed in the USA until 1961 and then returned to England.
It was subsequently painted the original British Racing Green colour again, and was lent to Italy's national motor museum, the Museo Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia in Turin, where it remained for almost twenty years before again returning to its place of birth, the Jaguar factory at Browns Lane. One of the most original D-types in preservation, it still has the 1956 Le Mans windscreen, passenger seat and door, and even sports the original trade plate registration 393 RW.
Registration mark: 393 RW
Chassis number: XKD 605
Owner: The Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust
Info sourced from : www.jdht.com/jdht_collection/1956JAGUARDTYPELONGNOSE.html
2009-04-13 19:18:27 | pauls writes:
The car is mentioned and pictured in the book "Jaguar D Type & XKSS" by Graham Robson. Numbered 25 in the '56 Rheims race mentioned above.
2009-04-13 20:56:29 | pauls writes:
Recorded in the above book as one of "works team cars '56 "XKD601-XKD606. All with full width appendix C screens and anti roll bar. All these cars are mechanically similar to '55 works car, some had fuel injection. XKD603 and 606 sold to Ecurie Ecosse for '57 to be semi works team cars along with '55, XKD504.
2009-06-22 06:46:30 | Rich Harman writes:
After Sebring 1957, 605 was raced extensively by the Cunningham team, mostly driven by Walt Hansgen, throughout the year, including wins at Lime Rock, Elkhart Lake, Marlboro, Montgomery, Thompson Raceway, Watkins Glen and Bridgehampton.Hansgen also won it in at the Orange Bowl at the beginning of 1958.
2009-08-14 10:01:36 | pauls writes:
Car participated in the '09 Mille Miglia
www.1000miglia.eu/inglese/home.html
2010-03-06 14:09:34 | Sam writes:
I am trying to help out a friend we need the plate hight for the racing jags for the la mans races. if some one has that info can you please e-mail it to me at connermacloed1@aol.com
thank you