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General Category => Race Cars and Motorsports => Topic started by: Moderator on January 13, 2010, 05:59:29 PM

Title: Costin-bodied Lister Jaguar
Post by: Moderator on January 13, 2010, 05:59:29 PM
The latest addition to the BritishRaceCar gallery is:
<a href="http://www.britishracecar.com/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar.htm">Syd Silverman's Costin-bodied Lister Jaguar Race Car</a>  (write-up plus 48 images)

(http://www.britishracecar.com/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar-BI.jpg)

(http://www.britishracecar.com/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar-CY.jpg)
Title: Re: Costin-bodied Lister Jaguar
Post by: Moderator on January 13, 2010, 06:13:36 PM
Can you help me improve this article?  As you look through it, you'll realize that the car has changed a lot from what it looked like in 1959. Over a dozen owners and about a dozen restorations... So, some of what I've been told about the car doesn't match what I see in the photos.  Maybe you can help me identify:

1) who made these front brake calipers? (They don't look like Girlings to me. AP?)
(http://www.britishracecar.com/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar-DB.jpg)

2) what donor car provided the front suspension uprights? (Morris Oxford would be original, but...)
(http://www.britishracecar.com/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar-DD.jpg)

3) what's this yellowed plastic reservoir for, rearward of the headers? (It ain't for windshield washer fluid!)  
(http://www.britishracecar.com/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar-CW.jpg)

(The lid looks like the Lockheed master cylinder lid on my MGB... but smaller.
However all three master cylinders are located on the opposite side of the car.)
(http://www.britishracecar.com/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar/SydSilverman-Lister-Jaguar-CX.jpg)