Jaguar's Le Mans successes fuelled a demand for fast sports racing cars based on Jaguar components. This demand grew after the disastrous factory fire of 1957 and the fact that Jaguar withdrew from racing and ceased development of the D-Type. One of the most successful Jaguar-based cars was designed by Brian Lister. The first Lister sports racer was seen in 1954, with the cars competing against Jaguar D-types and Aston Martins throughout the 1950s, most notably in the hands of the famous racing driver Archie Scott-Brown. Scott-Brown went on to dominate the British sports-racing car scene, winning 11 out of 14 races in 1957 driving a Lister Jaguar. This 1957 Lister design was a lightweight steel space frame clothed in an aluminium body of a somewhat lumpy appearance, giving rise to its nickname of the Lister "Knobbly". The 1957 successes lead to an improved 1958 version which conformed to international racing regulations. A total of seventeen of these extremely potent and very successful cars were built, most of which have survived and today are highly desirable. In the late 1980's Temperos was approached by a Lister affectionado who was unable to secure a genuine Knobbly and so commissioned us to build an exact duplicate for him. Since that time Tempero has been able to add both the Knobbly and the Costin-Lister to our repertoire of aluminium bodied, hand-crafted recreations.