Solved - NEH 4854: Jaguar C-Type S/N XKC037 rebuilt/modified by Frank Gardner

[Carnut]

For 1 point, what exactly is this and who built it?

[Carnut]

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[SACO]

Jaguar C Type of Dr Boorman ?

[Carnut]

Jaguar C Type of Dr Boorman ?

Yes, it's the Boorman C-Type with an Allard grille later campaigned (in Australia as well) by Frank Gardner.

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[Paul Jaray]

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[Carnut]

What's this, by whom - for 1 point?:

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[tobytwirl]

Looks like a C-type Jaguar with a new bonnet,  so presumably it isn't. Australian?

[Carnut]

Looks like a C-type Jaguar with a new bonnet,  so presumably it isn't. Australian?

Actually it is, and yes, it's Australian.

[tobytwirl]

It's known as the ex Dr. Boorman C-type XKC037 and was owned and driven by Frank Gardner after it had been involved in a fatal accident. He rebuilt it and was probably responsible for that bonnet.

[Carnut]

It's known as the ex Dr. Boorman C-type XKC037 and was owned and driven by Frank Gardner after it had been involved in a fatal accident. He rebuilt it and was probably responsible for that bonnet.

Yes, that's the car.
The different bonnet and grille treatment was in fact Frank Gardner's doing.
I remember often seeing Frank racing his Ford Galaxie at races in the UK in the 1960s.  He was always exciting!
Well done.

[nicanary]

The C-type was an insurance write-off which he rebuilt. Rather him than me......We've had the car on here before when it was one of Woodinsight's puzzles showing the front row of a grid at Gnoo Blas.

Slightly OT, but I was at the old Prowess Racing premises in Windlesham once, many years ago, and Hugo Spowers was showing me round and pointed at a pile of scrap behind a workshop and told me it was Frank Gardner's old XK120. Mind you, it was GRP so it wouldn't have rusted, but many chassis components were lying there completely open to the elements. I've never found out whether Frank did indeed race one when he first came to the UK, or whether this was BS.

[Allan L]

There's quite a bit about Frank's cars in the "Castrol Racing Drvers' Manual" by Frank Gardner with Doug Nye - the GRP-bodied XK120 "was replaced by" the written-off C type which implies it was still in Australia.
I can remember two John Pearsons racing XK120s in the UK one car being in good historical condition and the other being a GRP-bodied ModSport. To make it clear which driver/car we were referring to, they were Steel Pearson and Plastic Pearson!
I'd need to do some digging to establish when I last saw Plastic Pearson, but perhaps it was his car in Windlesham . . .

[nicanary]

I remember the Pearson cars well. I must admit that when Spowers told me what the pile of junk was supposed to be, I was a bit taken aback.

He had an RGS Atalanta sitting under a tarpaulin, and in the workshops were a D-type (with Le Mans history but I've forgotten which chassis), a Ferrari 166/195 coupe and a Ferrari Monza which they were renovating for a Dutch museum. I could have stayed there all day.

[Paul Jaray]

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