Advertising Last completed movie pages 1957 Jaguar Mk.I 3.4 (Mike Hawthorn)Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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◊ 2015-06-08 04:07 |
22 January 1959 - former motor racing world champion Mike Hawthorn died in an accident in his own highly-tuned 1957 3.4 Litre, registration VDU 881, on the A3 Guildford By-Pass in Surrey http://www.guildford-dragon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hawthorn-crash.jpg A special order spec from the factory in October 1957, [S970806DN] was the 806th right hand drive 3.4-litre MK I built by Jaguar - Link to "www.conceptcarz.com" VDU 881 was deliberately cut up and scrapped afterwards, but various replicas have been made since including 881 VDU, and a series of up to 10 recreations - http://www.roachclassics.co.uk/mike-hawthorn-jaguar/ |
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◊ 2015-06-13 20:28 |
Wasn't this car's nickname the "Merc-Eater"? |
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◊ 2023-12-25 03:49 |
It was, at the time of the crash, it believed that Hawthorn was overtaking a Mercedes-Benz 300SL when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed. |
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◊ 2024-06-27 12:32 |
Even if Hawthorne hadn't died in this crash, he sadly wouldn't have lived for much longer anyways; he had already had one kidney removed due to an infection in 1955 and by the time of this crash, the other one was on it's way out. He had recently started suffering fainting spells and some have theorized he lost control of the Jaguar due to such a fainting spell occurring as he was overtaking the Mercedes. Poor guy was only 29  It's a rather strange twist of fate that he accidentally caused the deadliest crash in racing history and ended up dying in a car accident himself. |
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