Upon retirement from racing in 1956, Jaguar made the unusual decision to convert its remaining 24 Hour of Le Mans-winning D-Types for street use.

Designated the XKSS, the conversion consisted of little more than fitting a rudimentary windshield and fabricating a passenger door.

Just 16 XKSS examples were completed before a factory fire destroyed the rest, making the originals exceedingly rare.

With such scarcity, recreations eventually followed.

Among the most accurate are those created by the British firm Lynx Motors Engineering Limited, originally founded as specialists in D-Type repair, maintenance, and tuning.

Completed in 2014, this Lynx XKSS Recreation was constructed as a tribute to one of Hollywood actor Steve McQueen’s favorite cars, his British Racing Green 1957 Jaguar XKSS, which he dubbed the “Green Rat.” Using a 1970 Jaguar E-Type Roadster as a donor vehicle, Lynx hand built a custom aluminum bonnet, tail section, and monocoque body with an extended footwell for talle...