The 1954 Jaguar D-Type ‘OKV 2’ Works Competition racing car is heading for the Broad Arrow Amelia Island 2025 auction — the D-Type is priced to sell.

One of the lead cars for the Broad Arrow Amelia Island 2025 classic car auction is the 1954 Jaguar D-Type ‘OKV 2’ Works Competition racing car. It is estimated at $6,500,000 to $8,500,000, significantly lower than the unsuccessful bid and estimates when it was last offered at auction in 20218. Enticingly, the Jaguar D-Type is offered without reserve.
Broad Arrow Amelia Island 2025 Classic Car Auction
Broad Arrow (a Hagerty company) Amelia Island Sale: 7-8 March 2025 at the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island in Florida, USA
In 2024, Broad Arrow replaced RM Sotheby’s as the official auction of The Amelia (Concours d’Elegance) in Florida. The 2024 auction earned $63 million with a sell-through rate of 92%. (RM Sotheby’s moved its Florida auction to Moda Miami, which in 2025 will be held on the final weekend of February.)
Top cars announced for the Broad Arrow Amelia Island 2025 sale include two with Le Mans racing history: a 1959 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider Competizione and a 1954 Jaguar D-Type “OKV 2” Works Competition. Both have come-buy-me estimates.
Jaguar D-Type at Broad Arrow 2025 Sale

The 1954 Jaguar D-Type Works Competition Car, chassis no. XKD 403, announced for the Broad Arrow Amelia Island 2025 sale, has a pre-sale estimate of only $6,500,000 to $8,500,000. It is offered without reserve and thus very likely to actually sell. A reported highest bid of $9,800,000 failed to buy the car in 2018 — details below.
This Jaguar is well-known as ‘OKV 2,’ its Works number plate. Not only was it raced and tested by some of the most revered drivers of all time — Stirling Moss, Peter Walker, Tony Rolt, Peter Whitehead, Mike Hawthorne, Ivor Bueb, Ninian Sanderson, and Norman Dewis — but it is quite possibly the most raced Works D-Type, campaigned in top-level European races every year between 1954 and 1958.
1954 Jaguar D-Type ‘OKV 2’ Works Competition

The Jaguar D-Type revolutionized sports car design with aircraft-inspired, lightweight engineering and achingly gorgeous aerodynamics contoured for new top speed records that Jaguar seemed to set year after year at Le Mans. The ground-breaking car would earn Jaguar a hat trick of Le Mans victories — one of the race-winners sold for almost $22 million in 2016.
The earliest D-Types were constructed for use solely by the Works competition department. The car on offer, ‘OKV 2,’ was in the first group of three D-Types constructed for Jaguar’s all-out assault on the 1954 24 Hours of Le Mans.
‘OKV 2’ was designated as team lead for Le Mans, with none other than Stirling Moss and his favored co-driver, Peter Walker, behind the wheel. The pair set the fastest time in practice and a record top speed of a blistering 172.97 miles per hour with ‘OKV 2’ down the Mulsanne straight. Though they eventually retired with brake issues, several further outings at the international level followed for ‘OKV 2’ in the 1954 season.
Jaguar D-Type as Private Competition Car

Following additional successful races and two Works testing stints with legendary drivers Norman Dewis, Mike Hawthorne, and Ninian Sanderson, the D-Type was sold in spring 1955 to Jack Broadhead for Jaguar’s PR man, Bob Berry, to race. Berry proved himself quite the wheelman that year with numerous fine finishes that included three second-place podiums at Goodwood and a further second at Aintree.
Following a shunt at Dundrod, the final major race of the season, OKV 2 was rebuilt at Jaguar Works over the winter with a Works-type integral subframe assembly fitted with larger diameter roll bars and a 1955-style front bonnet. After another successful 1956 season for Berry and OKV 2, save for a few races in 1957, Berry’s time with ‘OKV 2’ would come to an end. The car was campaigned by Ecurie Broadhead until 1959.
In 1960, the car was sold to Gerald Montgomery Crozier, a Bentley racer, and began a short chain of gentleman racer ownership before landing with Lynx Engineering in the late 1970s for restoration as an amazingly unspoiled race car.
1954 Jaguar D-Type “OKV 2” Post Racing

In 1999, Terry Larson, a foremost D-Type expert who has thoroughly documented the car, acquired ‘OKV 2’ and would go on to drive it in the second running of the Goodwood Revival along with the Colorado Grand, California Mille, Copperstate 1000, and numerous Jaguar C- & D-Type Tours. Under Larson’s stewardship, Jaguar Test Driver Norman Dewis piloted the car at two Monterey Historic Races at Laguna Seca, a momentous reunion of man and machine after 45 years apart.
Larson parted with the car after a decade, trading it for a Jaguar XKSS. Since that time, the D-Type has been held by a noted West Coast collector of significant sports and sports racing cars. Under his ownership, it has seen thorough sorting along with numerous additional historic races, including a reunion with Stirling Moss at The Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco in 2011 and a return to Circuit de la Sarthe for the 2012 Le Mans Classic.
Prices of Jaguar D-Type at Public Auction

Jaguar D-Types are rare cars and are seldom offered at auction. The most expensive D-Type ever sold at auction was the 1956 Le Mans-winning 1955 Jaguar D-Type that achieved $21,780,000 at RM Sotheby’s Monterey 2016, as the most expensive Le Mans-winning racing car ever, the most expensive Jaguar ever, and at the time of sale as by far the most expensive British car ever sold at public auction.
In January 2018, two Jaguar D-Types were on offer at the Scottsdale and Arizona sales:
- A red 1956 Jaguar D-Type, XKD518, estimate: $10,000,000–$12,000,000, originally raced by Peter Blond, failed to sell with a highest bid of $8.85 million at the Gooding sale.
- The 1954 Jaguar D-Type Works Competition Car ‘OKV 2’, chassis no. XKD 403, estimate $12,000,000 to $15,000,000, failed to sell with a highest bid of $9,.8 million at the RM Sotheby’s auction.
The estimate for the same Jaguar D-Type OKV-2 at the Amelia Island 2025 sales is significantly lower. It reflects the reality that the last D-Type sold was the red XKD518 that achieved only $6,000,000 at the RM Sotheby’s Arizona 2021 auction — well over $3 million cheaper than it would have been in 2018 once auction costs are included.