Ecurie Ecosse Transporter Project

One of the more unusual and historically interesting restoration projects undertaken by Lynx is the1959 Ecurie Ecosse Team Transporter, originally built by Walter Alexander of Falkirk, Scotland.  The vehicle uses a Commer chassis and is powered by a three cylinder horizontally-opposed supercharged 2 stroke diesel engine!

It was designed by Selby Howgate to carry the Team’s racing cars to events in the UK and Europe and was one of the first custom-built racing car transporters.   Corgi even made a model of it in the late 1960’s and sold over 180,000 examples!

The Transporter was retired from active service by Ecurie Ecosse in the mid sixties, and was then used by privateers until the late 1970s.

In 1992, Lynx acquired the vehicle on behalf of one of its clients and began a meticulous sympathetic restoration retaining the vehicle's original appearance and specification, with the added   facilities of a seating area for use at events, replacing the on-board workshop/ sleeping space. All of the Transporter’s unique features such as the original cable-operated hydraulic ramps are used, and with the additional safety features having been designed and fabricated by Lynx for its new life.

Since its restoration, the Transporter has been the subject of numerous Press Articles and has travelled  many thousands of miles to race meetings and motoring events such as  the Ecurie Ecosse Tour in Scotland, Le Mans and Silverstone.