Frost covered the links of the Oxfordshire Spa hotel as an early sun picked out the glistening beauty of the land. Winter was approaching, not the ideal time to be touring in an E-type. And yet it could prove to be the best time of all with stunning landscapes and little used roads to enjoy.
There’s an incredible arrogance directed to classic cars as devices of irregular performance and doubtful reliability, safe only on the shortest of distances. Judging by the tiny mileages covered by many it must be true! Film director, Matthew Whiteman has never subscribed to this philosophy and as features elsewhere in these pages testify, neither do we! His 3.8 fixed head E-type had been his only car for the first 25-years of his 30-year ownership. When we spoke of a possible touring feature, being the good chum that he is, he volunteered his car immediately.
UNDENIABLE BEAUTY
Our E-type for the trip is a ’62 fixed head, original right down to its correcta glossed up over-restored glitz-mobile. Amusingly, the correct engine number for this 3.8, is R3838-8.
