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Jaguar's Last Race.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:325.00 USD Estimated At:650.00 - 900.00 USD
Jaguar's Last Race.
Original victory poster issued by Jaguar upon their 1957 conquest at Le Mans, in which their sports cars set the motoring world afire, winning 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th places! "The Fifth Jaguar Victory in Seven Years / Le Mans...1957...." 29 x 39 3/4, red and black on white. Printed in Leicester, England. Made in very limited numbers for display in showrooms and windows. Jaguar had actually placed their factory racing team on holiday after the '56 season, planning to modernize their D-Type. The marque's astonishing conquests at Le Mans were all the more miraculous following the spectacular factory fire in Feb. 1957, destroying vital tooling and jigs needed for the racing cars. "All things relating to competition were forgotten - had to be. The main object was to get the factory going again with all possible speed, back into profitability, which was done very quickly... Thus ended Jaguar's own competition career, and although support lingered in America and the company was to remain in touch with the racing scene right up until 1966 when the XJ13 prototype was secretly finished, Jaguar were never again to enter the sport officially themselves."--Paul Skilleter, at Mike-Hawthorn.org.uk. Minor storage evidence, else fine, never hung. With interesting letter of provenance. Long unlisted in Jaguar World Price Guide.