Cars from the Historic Collection to be shown at Pebble Beach

We are very excited to announce that we are out in Monterey with two of our collection cars to attend Pebble Beach Concours and the many brilliant surrounding events.

The Pebble Beach Concours is perhaps the most prestigious concours event in the world, now in its 73rd year it manages to attract more incredible cars every time! The concours features a range of different classes covering special of all ages and a mix between expertly restored cars and original ‘preservation’ examples.

This year there are a number of feature classes including Packard 125th anniversary, Maserati, Frua coachwork, wedge-shaped concept cars & prototypes and of course 1990s BPR and FIA GT Race Cars.

We are lucky enough to have been accepted to show both our CLK GTR and XJ220-C in the 1990s BPR and FIA GT class. This is sure to be a fantastic celebration of what was a truly golden era of GT racing.

CLK GTR #011

The CLK is perhaps the definitive GT1 car. It was so successful that it ultimately brought an end to the championship in 1999 as all competitors pulled out and the rules were changed.

This car is the No.1 car driven by Bernd Schneider and Mark Webber and is the last V12 CLK racecar built. It’s one of two factory V12 cars that helped Mercedes to dominate the FIA GT Championship for the second consecutive year in 1998.

For the 1998 season, two of the 1997 cars were passed over and run by the privateer Persson team, whilst our car was built new for the factory squad. Mark Webber joined the team for 1998 and partnered ’97 World Champion Bernd Schneider to share this car as the defending champions.

This car made a successful debut at Oschersleben with a 3rd place finish amongst an all CLK GTR podium. The following race was Silverstone and this car topped two of Porsche’s groundbreaking GT1’s to take the overall win. This was the last time that this car would race as for the next round at Hockenheim the Works cars were replaced by the V8 engined CLK LMs which went on to win every remaining race of the season.

XJ220C #002

Although it did not technically compete as a GT1 car, the XJ220C Lightweight was really the father of GT1 racers and the first to ‘win’ the all new GT class. After the FIA canceled the Sportscar Championship in 1992 they introduced a new structure of classes for 1993. The ‘Group GT’ class was the ACOs version of the upcoming GT regulations which became GT1 and GT2. The two XJ220C sister cars returned to Le Mans in 1995 and raced in the then established GT1 class, famously dominated by the F1 GTRs on debut.

This very car was the last Jaguar to ‘win’ at Le Mans. In 1993, three XJ220 competition cars were built by Tom Walkinshaw Racing, to FIA/IMSA Le Mans specifications, in order to contest in the Group GT class at the Le Mans 24 Hours. TWR pulled together a star driver line-up of David Coulthard, David Brabham and John Nielsen.

The XJ220-C ‘lightweight’ was 400kg lighter than the road cars and was fitted with fully detachable composite nose, tail and body panels. The interior was largely stripped out with carbon fibre used extensively. The twin turbo 3.5L V6 was uprated to reportedly produce as much as 850bhp.