Jaguar's D-Type was not only one of the best-looking cars ever to grace a race circuit but also one of the most successful, winning arguably the toughest race of them all, the Le Mans 24 Hours, three years running between 1955 and 1957.

Just 71 D-Types were built in period along with 16 XKSS models - the disastrous factory fire of February 1957 helping put an end to further conversion of racing Ds into the road-going XKSS.

Original examples seldom come to market these days and, when they do, their multi-million-pound values are way beyond the pockets of ordinary mortals.

Nevertheless, there has for some time been a thriving market in evocations catering for a variety of budgets and we are pleased to offer one such example here.

Founded by John Arnold and Justin Wilson in 2002, Revival Motorsport Ltd aimed to stage a ‘one make’, sixteen-round race series the following year populated with D-Type Evocations of its own design.

The original idea was to construct twenty-seven cars (twen...