1959 Jaguar Other

open

6 cylinder

5 speed

Clear

Gasoline

This all aluminum car is a recreation of the two Costin bodied Lister Jaguars built in 1959, one being raced by Sir Stirling Moss that year in Sebring. (Sold at Gooding Scotsdale 2010 for $1,100,000.00) This car was built by Tempero Coachworks in New Zealand about 1985 and was raced in New Zealand for ten to fifteen years in vintage races, sprints and hillclimbs. Tempero re-purchased the car around 2002 and refurbished it before shipping it to the United States. This alloy car features weber carburetors, headers, Trans is 5 speed all syncro aluminum case with Tilton tri-plate clutch, coil-over suspension, IRS, disk brakes, knock-off Dunlop wheels and roll bar. This is the only Costin Lister Jaguar re-creation known to exist. The car has been issued an SVRA logbook # 3458 here in the USA. The following information is from Rod Tempero of Oamaru, New Zealand: Body and chassis supplied to Rod McKenzie of Timaru New Zealand, and finished in metallic blue with light blue racing stripe. The car raced in this form until the 1993 Southern Festival of Speed when it was modified with a 5 speed gearbox rear mounted sway bar and a very low mounted fuel tank replacing the larger unit. In this form it raced in the four races of the series, Ruapuna 6-7 Feb, Timaru 13-14 Feb, Dunedin 20-21 Feb. with these mods it was 14 sec faster around Dunedin than last year. Later in that year it raced a Queenstown road race and placed fourth behind three single seaters and ahead of a Lotus 25. Practiced at Waimate Street race looked and sounded great, blew clutch in first race and retired for the day. Competed in the same races in 1994. About 2002, Barrie Angliss of Tempero Coachworks re-purchased the car and tidied it up. It was repainted to works colors. If you have any questions or would like more photos please contact Terry Larson, 480 984 8501