A unique car which began life as a Heritage C Type chassis kit and has been significantly enhanced to produce a properly engineered and brilliantly executed 'Knobbly' replica. Mostly new or freshly rebuilt, this stunning example would make an evocative and competitive prospect for race, track day or .....
Der Lister Knobbly zählt zu den aufregendsten und erfolgreichsten Sportwagen aus den 1950er Jahren überhaupt. Seinen Namen verdankt er der kompromisslos gestalteten Karosserie. Eine reine Zweckform, dem damals gültigen FIA Appendix C Reglement folgend.
Vorgestellt wurde der Lister Knobbly in 1958. .....
In the early 1980s, British motor racing journalist and historian Doug Nye was commissioned by the famous Yoshiyuki Hayashi collection to acquire an “affordable” Lister-Jaguar. Nye contacted Historic racing Lister specialists John Harper and John Pearson, who subsequently assembled this car to Nye’s .....
There’s no doubt that the Jaguar XJS was a fantastic grand tourer but, as the replacement for the legendary E-type, it seemed a little bit conservative. Then a tuning company using the revived Lister name transformed it into a 200mph supercar!
The relationship between Lister and Jaguar goes back .....
ESTIMATE €375,000-€425,000
Legende Et Passion Monaco 2018
LOT DETAILS
Lot Number 180
Chassis Number OTL 201
Year 1959
Make Lister
Model Jaguar Knobbly Evocation
DESCRIPTION
Englishman Brian Lister used the facilities of his father's Cambridge wrought iron shop, George Lister & Sons, as the basis for .....
Encouraged by the considerable successes achieved with his earlier sports cars, in the later 1950s Brian Lister began to finalise plans for the production of the Lister-Jaguar “Knobbly” range, which was introduced for the 1957 season and further refined in 1958. At this time Lister was also becoming .....
