The 'E' Type Forum

My neighbour, Simon, has shown me this photo of him next to 6162 RW, an October 1961 registered FHC (the XK150 belonged to his neighbour at the time).



The story is that William Lyons was concerned about the early E Types being crashed and asked Simon's father for his thoughts. The father being the head of a large insurance company. So this FHC was delivered to Surrey for them to use for a few days. By all accounts they thoroughly enjoyed driving the car up to London to go to work and at speed down the Kingston by-pass and reported back that the insurance company had no concerns at all about the car (though maybe a few drivers weren't so highly regarded?)

DVLA records show it as untaxed and MOT expired on 12th May 2014.

Would anyone know of the car? I have asked JDHT but don't expect they'll release much information to me not being the owner.

Thanks
Geoff

PS, edited, just went onto XKEdata and found this: http://www.xkedata.com/cars/detail/?car=860010

Seems it was a press car retained by Jaguar and went through JD Classics in 2012 and won best in show at Uniques Special Ones (whatever that is!)

Here's some more info:

Fixed Head Coupe E-type 6162 RW, was a factory press and development car, and chassis No.10 off the production line.

Thanks Mike,

I've now spoken to JD Classics to see if they might have some info/photos I could pass on to my neighbour.
He used to marshal at races, including Silverstone, Monaco and some hill climbs. He doesn't use the internet so can't search for things, but I'll try to gather some bits to show to him.

Thanks to all for any help,

Geoff

Hello!
This year in Salon Prive concours d'elegance in Blenheim Palace (will start tomorrow) will be this car.
Carlos

Carlos, do you have anything to do with this car?
As you can see I was trying to pass information to my neighbour (see above) who can be seen in the photo with the car back in 1961. JD Classics never did respond to my enquiry, even to see photos they had previously exhibited on their website. Sadly, my neighbour has since died so that meant the story could not be completed.

Geoff

Salon Privi Blenheim Palace
https://www.blenheimpalace.com/whats-on ... prive.html

John