Jaguar SS 100 2.5

This 1937 SS 100 2.5, chassis 18067, has a competition history that is unusually well documented for a pre-war sports car. Its first owner, Harry Kemp Place, bought it new and raced it at Brooklands over the next two years, including the 1939 High Speed Trials. The history file holds period photographs of the car on Test Hill and on the circuit.

It later appeared at the 1961 Jaguar Drivers' Club rally at Beaulieu, by then painted British Racing Green with a red leather interior. Two brass plaques on the screen surround record second-class awards from that event, in the driving tests and the concours. The engine is not the original and was changed before 1960. Later history includes time in the south of France, a 1988 sale through Coys of Kensington, and a series of well-known classic car dealers and private owners.

The car keeps its aero screens, spotlamps, badges and a rare '85 badged bumper, and the paint and leather are described as aged and patinated rather than redone. The current owner has restored it mechanically and is reinstating the original registration, CYB 304, as seen in period photographs. The page says it is due at the dealer's showroom shortly, with no price published.