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Award-winning motoring historian Jonathan Wood examines the complete history of this fabulous car and looks behind the scenes at Jaguar's famous Browns Land factory and the team responsible for making the E-type a world class sports car. Wood charts the design and development of the E-type in six and twelve cylinder forms, plus its career on racetracks of the world. Contains a wealth of technical specs and comparisons, plus practical information on buying and maintenance.

Jonathan Wood has been writing and researching the history of the British motor industry all his working life. He has some 35 books to his credit, has twice won the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Montagu Trophy, and is a two-time recipient of the US-based Society of Automotive Historians’ Cugnot Award. A founder member of the staff of Classic Car magazine, he ran an MGA as his company car. Over the past 30 years he has given illustrated talks on motoring history to old car clubs and branches of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. In 2005 he presented the Institution’s Sir Henry Royce Memorial Lecture to mark the publication of his biography of Alec Issigonis, creator of the Morris Minor and Mini. Now living in Ludlow, Shropshire, he combines his automotive enthusiasms with writing and lecturing on local history.

Acknowledgements

7

(1)

The Jaguar E-type in Context

8

(1)

1 The Right Company

9

(30)

2 Jubilation in Geneva

39

(35)

3 Refinement: from 3.8 to 4.2 Litres

74

(31)

4 E-types on the Race Track

105

(16)

5 Fast but not Furious: the Series III E-type

121

(30)

6 Whatever Happened to the F-type?

151

(10)

7 Buying the Right E-type

161

(27)

8 Spare Parts, Clubs and Specialists

188

(13)

Bibliography

201

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Index

203

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Jaguar E-Type The Complete Story

Jaguar E-Type The Complete Story

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