RM Auctions profiles its Jaguar XJ-9 race car
How do you get out of a race car with a suit on? Awkwardly.
RM Auctions offers a lot of cool cars. From classics and movie star cars, to race cars and crazy steam cars, they have sold some of the coolest cars in the world. Don't believe me? How about this one? Or this one? Or this super crazy thing? RM has sold them all.
But what we've seen only rarely from RM is in depth video coverage of their cars. Their Youtube channel does include video results of the sales of their finest cars, but we haven't seen a lot of meaty in-depth profiles of their cars before they are sold. (Not counting this excellent video) , or this one.)
Recently RM starting posting a few behind the scenes videos to their Youtube channel, and it seems they're adding to that material with a look at their Jaguar XJ-9 race car, which will be offered at their Amelia Island auction.
Former XJ-R racing driver Martin Brindle shows the viewer what it was like to drive this V12 monster around the track back in its championship days. The only thing missing is a startup and idle of that presumedly mean sounding V12 behind the driver. The Castrol livery of the Jag looks awesome against the plain white backdrop of the studio, looking like the thing is ready to race off at any moment.
It's nice of RM to do a video like this for us mere mortals who would normally not get the chance to experience machinery like this. Hopefully they'll keep videos like this coming.