Jaguar’s determination to achieve competition success against the biggest names in motorsport may have reached its zenith in the 1950s, initially with the C-Type and subsequently the legendary D-Type, but the following decade also brought success via the company’s new headline-grabbing road-going sportster. The early ’60s would see the revolutionary new E-Type being developed into another competition goliath, largely thanks to development of the Lightweight models, of which just twelve were originally built. Even the more ubiquitous steel-bodied E-Types met with on-track success, however, and still do all these years later, as anyone who’s witnessed them doing battle at events like the Goodwood Revival will testify.
Many of today’s E-Type racers will wisely choose to go the semilightweight route, swapping steel panels for aluminium in an effort to reduce weight and add speed. Many of the most popular mechanical modifications will be done in keeping with the period
