Curent Restorations

Jaguar E-Type Lightweight “Lindner”

Retroviseur, May 2010. Jaguar built just a dozen of the famous all aluminium Lightweight E-Types for racing. Of these, just one was modified by the Jaguar factory for owner Peter Lindner, the German Jaguar importer, to Malcolm Sayer’s Low Drag body design. It was raced by Lindner and Peter Nocker at Le Mans in 1964 [...]...
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‘Lofty’ England’s E-type – Chassis Number 4

‘Lofty’ England was the legendary Jaguar Team Manager who masterminded Jaguar’s five Le Mans wins in the ’50s, before becoming Managing Director of Jaguar Cars. He hand-picked the first owners of the very early E-Types and allocated himself the fourth right hand drive roadster. Classic Motor Cars are carrying out a t...
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Daily Mail E-type Competion Car – Chassis Number 24

In 1961, amid all the excitement of the Jaguar E-type launch, the Daily Mail newspaper ran a competition to win one of two examples. It is difficult to appreciate now the impact of the E-type in those days. The vast majority were exported, but those few that remained in the UK would be mobbed. Classic [...]...
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