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Petrolicious · Petrolicious · 18 Sep 2026

No roof. No windscreen on the passenger side. A long-stroke Jaguar six making around 300 horsepower in a car that weighs about what a '71 911 weighs. The D-type replica lives at Beeline in Santa Cruz, where Nic Cuarta keeps it sorted for its owner. Headers sit in front of the passenger's knees. The exhaust exits on that side too. Highway One with the fog coming in off the Pacific, then a right turn into the redwoods on a road a lane and a half wide. Intake roar and backfires on the overrun. "You're behind a sport bike windscreen," Nic says. "It's motorcycle loud. You're in the environment." D…

Petrolicious · Petrolicious · 18 Sep 2026

Nic Cuarta knew the D-Type before he knew the man who owned it. Years ago, while cutting his teeth at his family’s vintage Jaguar shop in Florida, the car came through the door. Nic never worked on it. He just remembers standing there thinking how cool it was. Years later, after starting Beeline in Santa Cruz, the same D-Type turned up again, this time only a couple of blocks away. Today, its owner Jay is a mentor and advisor to Nic, and the D-Type has become a familiar presence at the shop. It’s a replica, built from period Jaguar components and later versions of what Jaguar engineered at th…

Tedward · Tedward · 14 Sep 2026

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