The 'E' Type Forum

Might have taken five minutes to align the wipers on the FHC correctly too...... https://media.goodingco.com/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,q_88,w_1800/c_fill,g_center,l_WM,q_88,w_1800/v1/Prod/PB22_Pebble%20Beach%20Auctions%202022/768_1961%20Jaguar%20E-Type%20Series%20I%203.8-Litre%20Fixed%20Head%20Coup...

Funnily enough I was having a bit of a sort-out over the weekend, and came across some old petrol receipts from 2010/2011. Turns out back then I was paying just nudging £1.50 a litre for the high octane stuff, so I guess in real terms the current prices ain't all that different. The sad thing is tha...

PS oh... and the Maxi, which I thought was a horrible car, was probably the most durable of them all! Reminds me of when Car magazine back in the Eighties used to run their regular 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' feature in the back pages. All currently available cars were boiled down into a fair...

Rather unhelpfully, the otherwise ultra-picky JCNA judges declare the suspension and inner wheel arches a bit of a no-go area! As far as I know the shocks are semi-gloss black, but I stand to be corrected. I've got a number of in-period books but none of them give a really clear picture (although wh...

Rumour has it that all ten gold spinners were bought by a certain Mr Jones to sit atop the various en suite bath taps as the piece de resistance at Heuer Towers......

Disappointingly it looks like they've sold all 10 £1,000 gold-plated spinners that they made. Still: plenty more where they come from.......

Tut, tut.... Is it not the case that strictly speaking the (rare) 'Continental' spinners are essentially the regular two-eared spinners but with the ears lopped off, whereas the 'Federals' are the regular three-lobed 'earless' spinners? Whilst you're at it, you may want also to consider a set of the...

OGG owner here :smile: I've ridden around in mine for eight years now and I still think it looks fantastic. To be fair I think all the metallic greys suit the car well, and the subtlety of the differences betwixt them will be lost on the man in the street. The attraction of the opalescent colours is...

Just wait 'til you see the photos of Darren draped decorously over the bonnet in his Speedos....

Whilst clearing out some stuff at the bottom of drawers, I came across these photos which I took at an E-type gathering at Duxford in (I think) 1982 - which being the case I guess would have been a 21st birthday gathering for the type. Interesting to think that at that point the Series IIIs that wer...

I heard stories (that would horrify modern-day mums who wouldn't dare put their precious fat baby Tarquin in anything smaller than a 3-tonne SUV) such as doing 140mph with her in a carry-cot perched behind the seats. Funnily enough, that's exactly where I spent my formative years! :bigrin: (Your si...

+1 for the Calyx graphite paste. Eye-wateringly expensive by the time you've had it shipped from the States, but one tiny tub will last you a lifetime, and the finished effect is very natural and just lovely.

I once did the Snake Pass in total darkness after my lights failed on my Beta Volumex Coupe just after leaving Sheffield (it was a case of find a way of continuing, or turn round and find somewhere to stay the night in Sheffield - 'nuff said :wink: ) I managed it by waiting in the layby, and then la...

Nice video:



I concur with Damon. Few things match the pleasure of driving round in your Old Man's E-type

For those of you with those nice elegant chromed 'GB' letters fixed to your boot or hatch.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58734265

If I go away in mine, I tend to send the missus ahead by DHL.

Tends to make for a much more relaxing and enjoyable drive, and leaves plenty of space for luggage.....

I'll say one thing for Darren: he drives no differently at a speed trial to how he drives on the road....

Yep, definitely Titanfast, and certainly an S2 feature. Whether it was fitted to all S2s I don't know, but mine had it originally, and it got left off during the restoration. I've got a length of it from Woolies that I keep meaning to get round to fitting some day (probably held back by the fact tha...