82MM REPORT
Once again the Duke of Richmond managed to grace us with glorious sunshine for the 82nd Members’ Meeting. It was the first major event for our new race transporter, which was filled by four Lister Sports Cars entered in the Salvadori Cup for World Championship sports cars built between 1955-1960. As with all the races at this year’s event, the cars ran on sustainable fuel.
Long-time customer Shaun Lynn brought along two newly acquired Listers - the famous BHL 105 - the Lister-Jaguar ‘Knobbly’ delivered new in 1958 to the Equipe Nationale Belge team which competed in Le Mans and the Goodwood RAC Tourist Trophy that year, and BHL 124 - an original US-raced 1959 Lister-Chevrolet Costin, fresh from a full restoration with us.
BHL 105, the Lister-Jaguar ‘Knobbly’ delivered new in 1958 to Equipe Nationale Belge team formed by Johnny Claes and Jacques Swaters as a sister team to Ecurie Francorchamps. The car competed in Le Mans that year, the only Lister to ever have entered the great race. It then went on to compete in the Goodwood RAC Tourist Trophy on September 13, 1958. Still wearing its yellow livery, the car is has been in the care of CKL for over 25 years and is remarkably original.
BHL 124, an original 1959 Lister-Chevrolet ‘Costin’ delivered new to the US, was restored by CKL just in time for the event. Arriving at our workshops at the end of November, the car was stripped, the bodywork repaired, reshaped and planished, before painting in the original ‘Kelly Green’. All of the mechanical components were overhauled, including the 5.4-litre Chevrolet V-8 which produces over 450 hp.
“Every single nut and bolt, all the metalwork, all the bodywork reshaped…all in five months - we had the whole team on it.”
- Mark Hews
John Spiers also drove his similarly shaped and very competitive Lister-Jaguar Costin, BHL 135, which won the Stirling Moss Trophy at the Silverstone Festival in September. Tarek Mahmoud raced his Lister-Jaguar ‘Knobbly’ #01 BHL 158, which has also raced at Members' Meeting before.
It was great to see so many of our clients and friends at Goodwood over the weekend, and to be able to entertain many of you in our newly renovated transporter.
Photos: Gunhill Studios