Not so original

June’s Month in Cars says of ex-le Mans E-type ‘503 BBO’, ‘That engine went back to Jaguar but everything else on the car is as it raced at Le Mans...’

For many years I owned the long-range fuel tank as part of my memorabilia collection – a rather corroded aluminium tank, the filler cap being the only salvageable bit. I picked it up from a dealer near Nottingham who bought a lot of the spares from a garage in Wales.

I even owned the Charles/coundley spares/tool box that was used at Le Mans apparently, complete with all small spares. Sadly, the whole collection had to go.