The great guys over at Classical Drives have great news: Proteus is coming to the US.
For those of you that don’t know, Proteus is a British car manufacturer that makes spot on rerpos of Jaguar C & D-Types. And I mean spot on. No glass here boys, all aluminum bodywork, hand formed, just like the originals.
And WHAT originals.
I know, I know, sometimes British aesthetic sense is simply terrible, look at what constitutes modern architecture for Britain.
But when they get it right, they produce things like the Spitfire, Jaguar C & D-Types and Quadrophenia.
And seriously, if I had the garage space, I’d think about one of these.
What’s not to like?
You get all the fun of an old race car, with none of the huge potential problems. It’s not worth a Brazilion bucks, so if you screw the pooch, you’re not wasting millions, it has modern (by Jaguar standards) mechanicals, so “authentic” parts are reasonably easy to find, and, these things are sexier then Emma Peel.
