The 'E' Type Forum

Ah, but in a sense it is your Vehicle Identification Number number

Then again, for much the same reason people seem to get annoyed with me when I refer to a Football ball. Still, I'm right and they're wrong

Heuer wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 23, 2018 1:09 pm

None of those are really eligible, in the case of the Ford there was no model badge

Ah yes, but absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence......

A work of art!

Trivia: The Factory put the E-Type badge above the Jaguar one and as a result it has become one of the few cars in history known first by the model name with the manufacturers name as a suffix; it will always be an "E-Type Jaguar". Closely pipped to be first to claim that honour by the Model T Ford...

Indeed. See here: https://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-pistonheads/jd-classics-enters-administration/38743 Whilst it's clear what shenanigans led up to it, you've got to feel sorry for all the undoubted fine race and restoration specialists who work there and who currently face great uncertainty...

Positioned strangely close to the Bonhams Goodwood Revival auction. Might that have been a factor?

Also bear in mind that, as a car driver, the "life" the life-saver saves might not necessarily be your own..... I don't know of any cars whose mirror coverage is immune from blind-spots. Even my bang-up-to-date family car with huge great elephant-ear door mirrors recognises this fact with visual and...

Please, please, be careful. If you want an example of how it should be done.....watch ANY global coverage of ANY type of racing. With camera's mounted everywhere inside the car, if you watch carefully, you will notice the driver constantly moving his eyes in an effort to stay completely aware of al...

JJC wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:57 pm

Turning your head to look back to see if a lane is clear is dangerous.

Except that you have to turn your head anyway to check the inevitable dangerous blind spot left by the mirrors. Known in biker circles as a 'lifesaver' check - and with good reason....

At the risk of confusing things even further we could describe it’s position in the way it is referenced in current automotive design & engineering CAD geometry terms... X Y & Z coordinates! X - length, Y - width, Z - height. With Y0 being the centre of a vehicle, -Y is ‘near side or left and +Y is...

If Fisher Price made E-types.....

I believe there were only two such bonnets made to order (the two customers were related) According to the auctioneer's site, I see that the original owner of this particular car was the Earl of Cawdor. How splendidly Macbethian. Presumably the other bonnet was therefore made for the Thane of Glami...

Maybe he was thinking to himself "60 years from now this will drive them nuts".....

More interesting info: " the upper edge of the right and left spokes on original wheels are not completely horizontal and this was a Jaguar design to counteract the illusion created by the tapering spokes and the need for the upper spokes to appear horizontal giving the symmetrical ‘T’ configuration...

I'm struggling to get my head round how you get out at 125mph and pump in those extra 8psi ready for the onward charge to the vehicle's maximum!

Think you might have just discovered the first ever example of an 'Advertorial'

Agreed. I've got Aquajets on my S2 and 32 all round seems the best setting. I've tried higher but it doesn't seem to suit the car as well - can't imagine what it would be like at 40 all round therefore!

I was at a Brooklands auction about two years ago when a near concours (there's always room for improvement in my book :wink: ) Series 2 OTS sold for £125k - if that helps give some indication? E-types do seem to have an extraordinarily wide spread of prices - even within the various 'subsets'. Howe...

Congratulations!

Whatever E-type you eventually end up getting for yourself, it'll need a Webasto to accommodate your headgear

Lost Horizon wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:16 pm

Good eye tho..

That's what the Forum's here for. It's a bit like having a full time analogue ECU.....