Argo JM19 (Group C2)

History

Argo Cars — Huntingdon-based, founded by ex-McLaren/Huron designer Jo Marquart — built customer single-seaters and sports racers through the 1970s–80s, and the JM19 family (1985 onward, evolutions through JM19C) carried its Group C2 campaign: aluminium-honeycomb construction, typically Cosworth DFV/DFL or Zakspeed-adjacent turbo power by customer choice, and running costs pitched at the class's privateer heartland.

Results peaked mid-decade: C2 class victories in World Sportscar Championship rounds (1986's Silverstone-adjacent successes among them), Le Mans C2 podium finishes, and Interserie/national placings as customer teams campaigned the type across Europe and Japan into the class's twilight.

Historic Group C's revival returned the JM19 to purpose: Peter Auto's C2 division and Le Mans Classic welcome the type, where its DFV-commonality running gear (against rivals' odder engines) makes operation unusually rational for the era. Values sit at historic Group C's accessible floor — the informed buyer's route into the ground-effect endurance world without Spice-benchmark pricing.

Palmarès

World Sportscar Championship C2 class wins mid-1980s (Silverstone and continental rounds); Le Mans 24 Hours C2 podium finishes 1986–88 era; Interserie and Japanese sports-prototype placings — the compact record of C2's determined constructor-underdog.