With its links to the evergreen E-type, and those perfect looks, who wouldn’t fall in love with a D-type? Around the world it always put up a good fight against Ferrari and Mercedes, and it looked likely to follow up on the C-type’s Le Mans victories. It narrowly missed in ’54, won under the shadow of the awful accident in ’55, and then won in both ’56 and ’57 as part of the Ecurie Ecosse team, resplendent in blue-and-white livery. XKD606 was the 1957 winner. The first factory production D-type recently fetched £2.2 million and the prototype E2A went for $ 4.5 million; XKD606 is certainly worth more, but looks set to stay in the Louwman Collection in the Netherlands.

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