This car is the 1990 replica Works Lightweight C Type.

If you want, you could buy an original Works Lightweight C Type, next time one comes up for sale, provided you’ve got £10 million in the bank.

Or you could buy one of the ‘continuation’ C Types released by Jaguar Classic in 2022.

You’ll probably need around £2 million for one of those.

But you won’t be able to drive it on the open road, obviously.

You’ll struggle to find a new replica because, well, Jaguar have been busy ‘discouraging’ any firm from making them, as have Aston Martin, Bentley and the other grand old marques who have gone down the ‘continuation’ classics route.

Can you see where we’re going with this? This 1991 replica has to be one of the few remaining real-world routes to C Type thrills and an automotive experience that is gloriously, wondrously evocative of 1950’s Le Mans glamour, danger and excitement.

The owner, Roy Swann (sadly now deceased, hence the sale), first saw XKC 051 in the 1980s in a Bagshot ca...