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7. Lister Storm £450000

In the June of 1954, a Lister Bristol won its class in the supporting race to the British Grand Prix ahead of the works Jaguars and Aston Martins. A further 13 victories were recorded that year.

Scott-Brown went on to dominate the British sports-racing car season in 1957, winning 11 out of 14 races in total and the prestigious British Empire Trophy Race, aboard a Lister Jaguar. Just to underline its place in the history books, Archie's Lister Jaguar also notched up many lap records on his successful rampage.

As a result of this success Brian Lister attracted customer orders for an improved 1958 version of the car, which conformed to international regulations. This car was to be known as the 'Knobbly' Lister Jaguar (a Centenary Edition of this car was built to celebrate 100 years of the Lister company in a joint venture between Brian and current Lister helmsman, Laurence Pearce, in 1990). More success followed with Stirling Moss winning the support race for the British Grand Prix and Lister Chevrolets dominating the American sportscar scene. This year also marked the debut of Lister Jaguar at Le Mans, where two cars competed in the French classic and one placed 15th.

Lister Jaguar returned to Le Mans a year later, again with a two car squad. Glory was not to come their way, however, as both cars retired with engine problems. The lead car showed that the British racing combination had unfinished business at Le Mans, however, as it was running in fourth place at the time of its retirement.

From 1959 until the early 1980's, Lister Cars retired from competitive racing. However, the name was revived following the involvement of engineer Laurence Pearce and a new car was designed to take part in a series of races for Jaguar sports cars known as the Lister Challenge. During this decade Laurence, in association with Brian Lister, was responsible for the rebirth of the company as a producer of performance road cars. This then led to the design in 1991 of an all-new supercar, as opposed to the Jaguar conversions that had previously been produced under the Lister name, the Storm.

With the Storm road car being launched in 1993, Laurence and Lister then had the perfect machine to rekindle the works Lister Cars racing team of the 1950's. The emergence of GT racing as the world's top sportscar arena over the past few years had provided ideal timing for a Lister Storm GT1 contender to return to the international competition stage. Now Lister has the experience of three Le Mans 24 Hours, three Daytona 24 Hours, selected races in the 1996 BPR International GT Series where the car always ran in a podium position, the 1997 and 1998 BRDC Privilege Insurance GT Championships (finishing second in the GT1 Championship in 1998), the American sportscar racing series and the FIA Global GT Championship.

In 1999 the Storm won both classes of the Privilege Insurance GT Championships with Julian Bailey and Jamie Campbell-Walter in the GT1 car and David Warnock in the GT2 car. Julian Bailey and Jamie Campbell-Walter also won the Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy and the Oulton Park Gold Cup. Julian and Jamie won seven out of the eleven British rounds, David Warnock won all six races entered in the Lister Storm GT2. The Storm GT2 also competed in four rounds of the FIA Championship achieving 2 pole positions and one 2nd position on the grid, finishing 2nd at Donington, 3rd at Zolder and 4th at Hockenheim. Thorkilld Thyrring won the Danish Grand Prix in a Lister Storm and Peter Hardman and Nicolaus Springer came 2nd in the final two races of the Spanish GT Championship.

The Lister Storm team won the FIA GT Constructors World Championship in 2000, while Julian Bailey and Jamie Campbell-Walter won the FIA GT World Drivers Championship (winning 5 out of 10 races, 6 pole positions - the second Lister of Philippe Favre and Nicolaus Springer achieved a further 2 pole positions). Among their victories was the British Empire Trophy at Silverstone - a repeat of Archie's success in the 1950's. Julian and Jamie also won the John Cobb Trophy for the best achievement by British drivers in a British car. The Lister Storm team won the Team Championship in the British Championship, while David Warnock was runner-up in the Drivers Championship with six wins and a second position from the 12 races.

Storm Lister was build in 1993. With V12 engine type, sized at 6996 ccm it was able to deliver 594 bhp @ 6100 rpm and 786 Nm of torque.

The engine specifications, body aerodynamics and weight to power ratio produce a top speed of 335 km/h , acceleration from 0 to 60mph (~97kmh) 4.1 sec and from 0 to 100mph (~160kmh) 8.9 sec . Quarter of a mile was reached at 12.1 sec @ 119 mph .