Jaguar does not build many cars like the Jaguar C-Type: a Roadster with 210.04 cuin XK6 I6, built from 1951 to 1953 at the height of the post-war boom. Its designer of record is William Heynes, Malcolm Sayer, Bob Knight. Production ran to 53 cars.
The story
The Jaguar C-Type (officially called the Jaguar XK120-C) is a racing sports car built by Jaguar and sold from 1951 to 1953. The "C" stands for "competition". The car combined the running gear of the contemporary, road-proven XK120, with a lightweight tubular frame designed by Jaguar Chief Engineer William Heynes, and an aerodynamic aluminium body, jointly developed by William Heynes, Bob Knight and later Malcolm Sayer. A total of 53 C-Types were built, 43 of which were sold to private owners, mainly in the US.
What is underneath
Under the skin sits 210.04 cuin XK6 I6. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Where it sits in Jaguar's history is not in doubt: the Jaguar D-Type followed it; it was built at Coventry, United Kingdom. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Toyota Land Cruiser, the Cadillac Eldorado, the Chevrolet Corvette. Nearby in the Jaguar catalogue sit the F-Type and the Vanden Plas.
The money
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Jaguar C-Type has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.