Jaguar Magazine – July 2019

01/02 #388 domiciled in the US and a successful Castrol Jaguar racer. 03 Team boss Tom Walkinshaw with US driver

Davy Jones. 04/05 Some US team cars ran at Le Mans in Silk Cut colours. A bare monocoque shows how easy it was

to 're-identity' a car. 06 Jones promotes #388. 07 However, the real one is also this 1990 Le Mans winner!

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Our archives contained UK images of the (unliveried)

IMSA #388 though that was not made public.

Jaguar paid TWR for new race cars one way or another,

but it appears TWR was achieving that a different way!

Allan's TWR documents show that when specific chassis

were up-dated, unless it was going to be returned to the

original number for sale reasons, a brand new monocoque

body was built, so a second (new) car bearing the outmoded

chassis number came into being! It was sold as being the

chassis number it wore with that history.

Of the fifteen genuine racing cars built in those five years,

the first two were retired at the close of the 1985 part-season.

Chassis #488 was retired after its only win - Le Mans 1988.

#186 was sold to Jaguar Holland after Le Mans in 1988

(Perkins/Cogan/Daly), and #187, the Win Percy 200 mph Le

Mans crash car was recreated. Its severely damaged original

body was apparently used for the prototype XJR-15.

In clear speaking terms, TWR was making new cars and

selling them as period specific Jaguar-powered race cars.

According to Scott's book, #386 morphed into #991 for Le

Mans in 1991. Castrol Jaguar #288 won the Daytona 24 Hour

race in 1988, then as #790 it won at Tampa, Florida in 1989!

This grouping of #388/#890, #588/#990, #890/#1090 was just

three cars but has six chassis numbers. Therefore, three of

the six existing cars are not genuine. Allan states also that

#286, #386 and #387 are recreations.

Fifteen V12 Group C and IMSA cars raced in the period,

but twenty-three TWR Jaguar V12s existed after the

programme was completed in 1993. Eight therefore are not

genuine. They were not raced by TWR or Jaguar Cars at

any time. TWR documented: "The original monocoque on

chassis #286 was replaced due to the Win Percy accident at

Le Mans in the dark early Sunday morning in 1987. The car

was recreated and sold to (song writer) Mr (Pete) Waterman.

"Chassis #386 became chassis number #188. Chassis #188

was sold to Mr Lippman. The new monocoque for chassis

#386 is in stock (awaiting sale).

"Chassis #387 became chassis #388. The new monocoque

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