Ecurie Ecosse is building seven Jaguar C-Type recreations

Ecurie Ecosse was a massively successful race team back in the Fifties, having won Le Mans twice with the Jaguar D-Type and scored no fewer than 59 podiums with its predecessor, the C-Type.

Reformed back in 2011, modern-day Ecurie Ecosse has announced its intention to build seven C-Type recreations. These cars will pay homage to the seven cars it campaigned so successfully almost 70 years ago, which all survive to this day in private collections.

The new cars will look like faithful recreations of the originals, but will have enlarged Jaguar ‘XK’ engines with fuel injection and 300bhp, five- instead of four-speed gearboxes and a laser-cut steel spaceframe chassis. The disc brakes will also be uprated, and the interior will feature handmade aluminium bucket seats trimmed with blue leather and Tag Heuer stopwatches.

However the ‘new’ C-Types will retain the original’s thin-gauge aluminium bodywork and blue/white colour scheme, with hand-painted Ecurie Ecosse shields on the cars’ flanks.

Price? No doubt very expensive. But given an original car raced by the team in 1954 sold for an astonishing $13.2million back in 2015, they might just prove decent value…