Jaguar D-Type ARTbox Display, Le Mans 1955 #6

The 1955 Le Mans 24 Hours was won by Mike Hawthorn and Ivor Bueb in the works Jaguar D-Type number 6, entered by Jaguar Cars Ltd, five laps ahead of the Aston Martin DB3S of Peter Collins and Paul Frère. It is remembered above all for the accident at about 6.20 in the evening, when Pierre Levegh's Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR crashed into the crowd; Levegh and more than 80 spectators were killed. Mercedes withdrew its cars in the night while running first and third. Jaguar's team manager, Lofty England, kept his cars running.

Mantuary, whose motto on the back reads Classic, Rough, Authentic, takes a finished model apart and lays it out as a picture. Here the model is the AUTOart Signature 1:43 D-Type in the winning car's green with white number 6 roundels. Its body, bonnet, chassis tub, front subframe, six-cylinder engine, dashboard, wood-rimmed steering wheel, seat, headrest fairing and wheels are fixed to a dark board. White drawings of the car and a German text on the D-Type are printed on the clear front, so the lines fall across the parts behind them. The AUTOart certificate of authenticity is mounted in the frame, describing the piece as a 1/43 diecast replica authorised by Jaguar Cars Limited, with its serial number; the same number is on the plate on the model's chassis.