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Noticing rivet placement

In the 60s, Jaguar built six special lightweight E-Types – cars intended to be raced. They were raced and fared well. A few still exist, one in particular rebuilt from a crumpled mess. Those cars are worth millions yet as valuable as they are, their owners race them in vintage events.

Today, Jaguar is building, away from any production line and with a carefully selected crew of craftspeople and management, an identical number of lightweight, aluminium-bodied E-Type coupes, to be sold for maybe a million and a half

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