![]() ![]() This marvelous reproduction of the ’56 Scragg Jag was not in its regular offerings, and it was actually commissioned by Barry Gurdler, a motorsports enthusiast well known in New Zealand. ![]() ![]() The car was built by Tempero Coachbuilding, a New Zealand company best known for its high-quality, hand-crafted recreations of ’50s sports cars like the Jaguar D-Type, C-Type, and Aston Martin DBR1 (and the Testa Rossa featured on the cover of our previous issue). While small in numbers, HWM specials were highly effective everywhere they appeared, and the majority of them survive today as cherished collector cars. HWM built fewer than two dozen cars over its seven years as a manufacturer, but the company is still in business as the longest established Aston Martin dealer, since 1951. Power-sliding his way to many victories, Scragg left an indelible impression on countless fans and became a legend in 1950s British motorsports. Sporting a torpedo-shaped fuselage with cycle fenders, it ran a hopped-up XK inline-six out of the D-Type. They were also well known for Jaguar-powered specials, with their most famous being the Scragg Jag. The two original owners of the firm were prewar racing drivers George Abecassis and John Heath, and they began building and racing cars in Formula 2 and Formula 1. To meet the rapidly growing demand for nimble, competition-worthy sports cars, marques such as Allard, Lotus, and Elva sprang to life in the 1940s and 1950s - and HWM as well. ![]() It was a time rife with innovation when enterprising privateers could beat factory teams. Materials and fuel were in short supply back then, but that shortage actually facilitated the growth of resourceful cottage industries building custom cars. This alluring ride was hand-built by Hersham & Walton Motors (HWM), established in 1946 at Walton-on-Thames England. But his real claim to fame resulted from hill climbs, manning the wheel of a raging Jaguar-powered special that came to be known as the “Scragg Jag.” These included the legendary Jaguar SS100 and Jaguar XK120, along with a Jaguar-powered Alta from 1950 to 1954. One postwar circuit ace was Phil Scragg, a textile industrialist and race car driver who manned the wheel of a few different Jaguars. In the aftermath of WWII, many battle-weary British soldiers returning home found relief in the exhilaration of motorsports. ![]()
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