British automaker Jaguar is undergoing a controversial, fashion-forward, tech-savvy rebrand as it prepares to launch its brand-new all-electric flagship vehicle for a new age. Gone are all of the gas models before it, like the F-Type, likely never to return. But there’s one special gas sports car Jag just can’t let go of, and we’re all going to be better off for it down the road.
That would, of course, be the iconic Jaguar E-Type sports car, which got a bevy of engines, raced just about everywhere it could, and lasted from 1961 to 1974.
Jaguar
Jaguar is a premium car manufacturer from the UK, currently owned by the broader Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) group. Originally a producer of motorcycle sidecars from 1922 (under the name Swallow Sidecar Company), the manufacturer later moved to the production of passenger car bodies under the ownership of SS Cars from 1935. In 1945, SS Cars was renamed to Jaguar Cars. The manufacturer has a historic back catalog of vehicles, notably the XK, E-Type, and XJ220, with modern hits including the F-Type and F-Pace. Jaguar has pledged to become an all-electric automaker starting in 2025, with production of all combustion cars ceasing early in 2024. The brand has launched an all-new identity for its future as an electric luxury automaker.
- Founded
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September 1935
- Headquarters
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Coventry, United Kingdom
- Owned By
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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)
- Current CEO
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Adrian Mardell
The E-Type Is All Jag’s Got For Now
The E-Type is often praised as one of, if not outright the most beautiful car in the world. Even the great Enzo Ferrari said so. So it makes sense that owners want to keep it alive, and so does the Jaguar brand, as it’s just about all the company has left to hold onto at this point, given it doesn’t currently sell anything but restoration parts now.
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E-Type UK has transformed this first-year Jag into an absolute beauty, creating a one-off Speedster model like nothing else.
And now that parts selection has been widely expanded, with a ton of new parts for E-Type owners, and prospective builders, to buy and equip straight from the original manufacturer. Jaguar Classic uses original drawings and outlines from its archives paired with modern 3D computer modeling techniques to ensure the new parts match the exact specifications of the originals.
Everybody Is Included
You can get all sorts of parts, but it’s not clear which ones have been recently added to the list. The website fortunately has an online store to browse, however. The parts are available for the Series 1, 2, and 3 versions of the E-Type, with its variously available 3.8-liter and 4.2-liter straight-six engines, as well as the later 5.3-liter V12 models.
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E-Type UK has transformed this first-year Jag into an absolute beauty, creating a one-off Speedster model like nothing else.
It’s not immediately clear if you could actually outright build a brand-new E-Type from the ground up, but you could get pretty close. Jaguar itself recently proved it could still build “new” E-Types just last year, out of all-new parts. But most of these continuation series parts from Jaguar Classic will be used to restore and maintain what’s already on the road, and the value of that is priceless. Jag puts a price on it, naturally, as each part costs something, but it’s lovely that we’ll still have E-Types running for likely at least another century.
H/T: CarScoops
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