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    ROBERT COUCHER

    Aug 25, 2021 3 minutes

    ‘I knew the E-type was the car that was eventually going to kill me,’ came the reply when I asked my father many years ago why the hell he sold his immaculate sky-blue 3.8-litre roadster and replaced it with a slower and rather slug-like Lancia Aurelia B20 GT. I suppose he had a point. The Jaguar E-type landed in Geneva in 1961 and was an instant roaring success. Advanced, beautiful, fast and affordable, it was absolutely sports car of the moment and the works in

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