1956 Jaguar D-type

by Thor Thorson

This gently patinated, tastefully restored Jaguar sports racing car exemplifies all that was most impressive, most innovative—and perhaps above all most beautiful—about the legendary British manufacturer’s mid-’50s design. The immortal D-type survives today as the supreme example of semi-monocoque frontier technology. After three Le Mans wins in 1955, ’56, and ’57, it was only eliminated by the change to a three-liter engine in 1958.