{"id":4290,"date":"2018-12-12T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalclassic.com\/?p=4290\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T08:06:23","slug":"the-run-jaguar-d-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/the-run-jaguar-d-type\/","title":{"rendered":"The Run with a Jaguar D-Type"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My 2000 mile, 3200 Km, a road trip in a 1955 Jaguar D-Type XKD 541<\/h4>\n

XKD 541, left the Brown’s Lane factory on November 11, 1955, and was shipped to the USA to its new owner Charles E Brown of Monroe Louisiana. The car was painted Pacific blue with a grey interior and had a standard 3.4-liter engine running on 3 Weber 45 DCO 3 carburetors. Power output was a healthy 250HP.<\/p>\n

Records show that the car competed in SCCA races at Mansfield La. and secured four overall wins in 1956. The car was then retired to Mr. Brown’s garage.
\nIn the late 60s, Mr. Brown decided to donate his car to the Texas Speed Museum. This is where she was discovered by my father\u2019s best friend Roberts Harrison who arranged to purchase her.<\/p>\n

The car was shipped to me in Berkeley California to sympathetically restore and prepare for racing. When it arrived it was virtually new with 1500 miles showing on the speedometer.
\nDuring this period, the 1970s, there was a group of real car crazies in Los Angeles who once a year sponsored a drive to Sun Valley Idaho then to Las Vegas and then back to Los Angeles. It was fondly referred to as \u201cthe RUN\u201d. All types of interesting cars showed up like Ferrari 250 GTO, Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, McLaren MK 6 GT just to name a few.<\/p>\n

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