Water-colour cartoons. Is there a doctor in the car park?

Julian beautifully captures the warm glow we have all experienced at the end of a successful restoration.

An XJ theme!

Fine.

More excellent artistry by Julian.

Fine.

8-pages. 11.5 x 8. Uses high-grade laminated paper. Illustrated specs. Quotes from the likes of Neil Johnson and Jim Randle on the Jaguar side as well as Tom Walkinshaw. Photos of key team members – Roger Silman (Team Manager), Tony Southgate (Chief Designer), Paul David (Racing Manager) and Allan Scott (Chief, Engine Development). Also, the four drivers – Martin Brundle, Hans Heyer, Mike Thackwell and Tom. Honourable mention for Stephen Leitch of Dunlop. Their TD tyre was specially created for the XJR-6. Fine. Rare.

John Douglas Publishing. 2012 320 pp. 8 x 11. Privileged insider’s view of the development of the TWR racing operation 1982-1987 including winning the 1984 ETC in the Jaguar XJS. New Zealander Allan Scott was the engine guru who set up and managed TWR’s Engine Division over 15 years. He gives an in-depth view of how TWR operated as well as the intrigue and secrecy of intense battles on and off the motor racing tracks of Europe during the 1980s. The definitive book of this era. Fine/Fine.

Synthetic material. No indication of maker or size, but it fits me OK and I’m 5’ 11”. Clean and rarely used. Slight discolouration on front zip. Season not confirmed but, P&O sponsorship could point to 1988 when Jaguar won Le Mans. Rare. VG.

As worn in countries where cigarette advertising was banned, leading to the branding of Silk Cut being replaced by the four purple blocks. All logos are embroidered. Made by Victoria Mocket of Why Not Limited. Size – 15 1/2 Not available to the public. Rare. Fine.

A rare survivor Fine.

This poster was published by Budweiser Beer in the USA to celebrate Davy’s magnificent six IMSA wins in 1991, when Jaguar was sponsored by Budweiser under their “Bud Light” brand. Definitely an improvement on the usual pretty staid car showroom posters of the era! 36 x 23. VG.

The first year when they won their first magic 24-hour double – Le Mans and Daytona. VG.

XJR 8 rightly features. VG.

Interesting image that long intrigued me. I was therefore delighted that after one auction, photographer Derek Seaward, contacted me to say that he took the image in a photographic studio with a painted backdrop with the car on jacks and the wheels spun. Thanks Derek! Fine.

Car No 7 leading three TWR XJS flying in formation at Monza. Portrait format. VG.

This time, car No 7 is running solo. Landscape format. VG.

Programme signed but signature illegible. Worth a punt? Sl creasing on poster o/w both Fine.

The Le Mans winning XJR-9 up front surrounded by silhouettes of all the tracks with Jaguar’s results alongside each track. I have one of these on my wall as an aide memoire! Fine.

Used for the TWR XJS team when they sported Motul livery for the 1983 season. Track silhouettes are show but no result, so probably at the start of the season. It’s a long time since I have seen one of these. Historic. Fine.

A limited edition print 94/400 by Keith Woodcock, signed by him and Chuck Nicholson. Fine.

Two for the front and two for the back. Some markings, which will clean. Rarely seen as a full set. VG.

This is the Spa Francorchamps winning car from 1984, driven by Tom Walkinshaw, Hans Heyer and Win Percy. These are among the rarest of AutoArt’s Jaguar models. Mint. Boxed.

This was after Anheuser-Bush Inc took over from Castrol as lead sponsor for the Jaguar racers running in the 1991 IMSA series in North America. There are two black boards each with a scalpel-cut image of an XJR-10 in the suggested red livery. One shows the car in plan-view; the other a side-on view from the right. History records that predominantly white “Bud Light” livery was adopted. Here lies the rarity value of these pieces as illustrations of the jockeying that goes on behind the scenes to secure and develop the sponsorship without which, there would be no racing. An unusual, important and probably unique slice of the history of Jaguar’s competitive achievements in North America. Fine.

Registration number – DS 288. 1:43 scale by “Bizarre” The car was sold for £219,900 at the Bonham sales of Dick Skipworth’s collection in December 2013 and is an EE car that has not been modelled very often. Rare. Fine. Unboxed.

The team were mounted on XJS and then XJR-5. All include press releases, photos, etc. There is also a separate set of 5 photos of Group 44 cars. 4 x XJR-5 and one E-type. From the estate of a motoring journalist. Folders and contents generally VG.

Signed by Stirling. Rare. VG.

Contains a press pack celebrating the launch of the new F1 cars, a Jaguar Racing notebook and the February 2000 edition of “F1 Racing” which contains a 28-page feature on the cars’ debut. The press pack is massive with 9 phots and no fewer than 54 individual sheets of paper covering the cars, the drivers, Jaguar’s motor sport heritage, Cosworth Racing (the cars had Cosworth engines), major sponsors, designers and engineers, but not, so far as I can see, the office cat(!). Undated, but the launch was on 25 January 2000. Unusual. Historic. Magazine cover creased o/w Fine.

A print from Nicholas Watts’ painting of Hamilton and Rolt’s progress to that fine C-type win – first time out! This is a signed print and it is the signatures that make it very special indeed. They are of four iconic Jaguar figures, all of them sadly no longer with us: Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt (drivers of the winning car), Lofty England (Jaguar Team Manager) and Norman Dewis (lead test driver). A very special group of signatures that can never be repeated. 32 x 23. Fine.

A works team of three XK120 ran. Two finished – at 12th and 15th and one dnf. VG. The first of a straight run of seven Le Mans programmes. The first time in many years I have seen them together in this quantity.

The year Walker and Whitehead drove their C-type to victory – first time out! VG.

C-type’s second vivtory with Rolt/Hamilton at the wheel and Moss/Walker in second place. VG.

This was the year the Rolt/Hamilton C-type won with Moss/Walker in second place and the Whitehead/Stewart car was fourth. Spine rubbed. RS but internally clean and unwritten. VG.

Huge efforts by Rolt/Hamilton in their D-type, including Hamilton’s superb final hard-driving stint at the wheel in pouring rain, came to naught with a Ferrari victory. VG.

The year of the tragedy. The Hawthorn/Bueb D-type was victorious. VG.

This was the year of Ecurie Ecosse’s first win at Le Mans with the Flockhart/Sanderson D-type. Includes article in English “Today’s Race” by Rodney Wakerley, Sports Editor of The Motor. RS but externally and internally clean and unwritten. VG.

A unique set of papers that includes some from later events. They include – “Medical problems of Racing Driving”, a short draft that is actually more about the physical and mental characteristics of racing drivers than problems. Bios and photos of drivers. Manuscript list of drivers for 1984, 85, 86 and 87. Admin instructions for team, support workers, and VIPs – hotel bookings, car allocations, flight details, etc. Brief post-event report. Le Mans issues of Jaguar Racing Review for 1984 and 1987. Le Mans souvenir issue of the International Jaguar Racing Review of 1988. All this in a 1984 Le Mans press kit wallet – a collectors’ item in its own right! Please check all the photos to appreciate the uniqueness and historical value of this archive. 20 minutes after I started cataloguing this, I was still reading and re-reading! Good to VG.

Compiled by the staff of Motor with drawings by George Lane. 50pp card-backed. Published by Temple Press in July 1954. A unique record of the race when notwithstanding an epic last shift drive by Duncan Hamilton in torrential rain, he was just pipped by Gonzalez in an Italian car. Among comprehensive contents on the race is a piece by veteran motoring journalist and the then Technical Editor of the Motor, Laurence Pomeroy entitled “The Greatest Le Mans.” Additionally, for those who have an abiding interest in the work of motoring artists, this is a unique collection of the work of George Lane. Covers sl rubbed o/w VG. Internally Fine. Scarce anyway and especially rare in this condition. VG.

Striking head-on D-type image by Roy Nockolds, who was Jaguar’s artist of choice throughout the 1950s. 30 x 41. Fine.