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Car of the Day: August 31, 2015; Tootsietoy '55 Jaguar D-Type
Topic Started: Aug 31 2015, 02:03 AM (411 Views)
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Today's car of the day is from corvairjim's collection, and is Tootsietoy's 1955 Jaguar D-Type.


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The Jaguar D-Type is a sports racing car that was produced by Jaguar Cars Ltd. between 1954 and 1957. Although it shares many of its mechanical components with the C-Type, including the basic Straight-6 XK engine design (initially 3.4 litres and uprated to 3.8 litres in the late fifties), the structure of the car was radically different. The innovative monocoque construction brought aviation industry technology to competition car design, together with an aeronautical understanding of aerodynamic efficiency. D-Types won the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1955, 1956 and 1957. After Jaguar temporarily retired from racing as a factory team, the company offered the remaining unfinished D-Types as XKSS versions whose extra road-going equipment made them eligible for production sports car races in America. In 1957 25 of these cars were in various stages of completion when a factory fire destroyed nine of them. Total D-Type production is thought to have included 18 factory team cars, 53 customer cars, and 16 XKSS versions.



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The structural design, revolutionary at the time, applied aeronautical technology. The "tub", or cockpit section, was of monocoque construction, mostly comprising sheets of aluminum alloy. Its elliptical shape and comparatively small cross-section provided torsional rigidity and reduced drag. To the front bulkhead was attached an aluminum tubing subframe for the engine, steering assembly, and front suspension. Rear suspension and final drive were mounted to the rear bulkhead. Fuel was carried in the tail and the designers followed aviation practice by specifying a deformable Marston Aviation Division bag in place of a conventional tank. The aerodynamic bodywork was largely the work of Malcolm Sayer, who had joined Jaguar following a stint with the Bristol Aeroplane Company during the Second World War and later worked on the C-Type. For the D-Type, he insisted on a minimal frontal area. To reduce the XK engine's height, Jaguar's Chief Engineer William Haynes and former Bentley engineer Walter Hassan developed dry sump lubrication, and it has been said that the car's frontal area was also a consideration in canting the engine at 8.5 degrees from the vertical (which necessitated the offset bonnet bulge). Philip Porter, in his book Jaguar Sports Racing Cars, says that "[a] more likely reason was to provide extra space for the ram pipes feeding the three twin-choke Weber carburetors." Reducing underbody drag contributed to the car's high top speed; for the longMulsanne Straight at Le Mans, a fin was mounted behind the driver for aerodynamic stability. For the 1955 season, factory cars were fitted with a longer nose, which lengthened the car by 7.5 inches and further increased maximum speed; and the headrest fairing and aerodynamic fin were combined as a single unit that smoothed the aerodynamics and saved weight.



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I had a gazillion of these as a kid (along with countless other similar Tootsies), was never one of my favorite models then. With age and knowledge I've gained a great love for Jags, and the D type and E type in particular. Clearly not the most detailed version of the D type (and I don't think any real ones were purple, the standard color for these toys for years), but at least it is a vintage piece and this one sure looks like it got plenty of playtime...I know mine did, all of them.
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:toy: I am a big fan of the old Tootsietoys - grew up with a bunch of the "larger ones" - what I call 3 inch, 4 inch and 6 inch toys. :D I do have a bunch of these smaller ones as well including the this Jaguar D Type. Always wondered about it in purple but figured it was British so maybe meant to be the royal colours! :lol:
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When I was younger and had Tootsietoys like this, I definitely had a purple Jag. I think every package must have had the purple Jag in it as every kid I knew with some Tootsies had it. I don't think I ever saw it in another color either. Like the rear engined Fiat wedge thing was always red.
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Ethanator
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I'll have to check my collection, I might a green one somewhere
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I have a pair of them, same color, same condition (a little worse, maybe). I'm thinking I'll eventually end up redoing one black, one British racing green, partially based on what I've seen online.

Of course, most Jam-Pacs downright fail as far as execution is concerned (way too crude), but they're so whimsical because they're so crude I have a couple dozen of them just for the novelty. My favorite would have to be the Jeep FC. Like John, most of the Tootsietoys I enjoy collecting are the larger ones.



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I found this "D-Jag" at our church's annual "Fair Days" last year. Fair Days is a somewhat deceptive way to say "massive,100+ vendor flea market". One vendor had about 5 milk crates of diecast running from the 1950's right up to nearly new. As many as you want, a buck apiece. I found (as I recall) 7 cars I liked, and it took me 10 minutes or more to get him to come down to $5 for the lot. Funny, of the 7 cars, this is the only one I remember distinctly as being from that seller!

For a while I was thinking about "restoring" it in British Racing Green, but the more I considered it, the more I realized that that would be tantamount to erasing some kids childhood. As has been pointed out by others above, it isn't particularly rare, but it does have a certain charm in all it's "Barn Find" ("Toy Box Find"?) condition. If I want to look at a shiny D-type, I just have to pick up one of my Hot Wheels versions. Of course they aren't green either, but rather a medium-dark blue. Ecurie Ecosse, maybe?

Meanwhile, there's always one guy who has carded Matchboxes and Hot wheels at, you guesses it, $1 each or 7 for $5, just what I finally got the guy with the bangers down to!
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