NEW CAR IS HISTORY IN THE MAKING

The original Ecurie Ecosse (French for ‘Team Scotland’) was more a privateer collective than a team. It competed in many disciplines with a rotating cast of star drivers and cars. Its crowning achievement was victory in the 1956 and 1957 Le Mans 24 Hours with Jaguar D-types, but it won no fewer than 59 podiums with seven Jaguar C-types, all of which still exist.

Like those cars, each new LM-C has its body and chassis made in Coventry, with welded steel spaceframe chassis and handformed thin-gauge aluminium bodywork. It’s then trimmed and has its engine fitted at Ecurie Ecosse’s workshop in Henley.

The C-type uses carburettors, but the LM-C uses multi-point fuel injection through a completely new inlet manifold. This works with a Life Racing F88 ECU, a lambda probe and a catalytic converter to give emissions clean enough for the car to pass the UK’S IVA test, therefore enabling it to be road registered as new.