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#1 World's fastest E Type
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2021 5:37 pm
by malcolm
Built by Rob Beere, so can't be all bad. And it's up for sale - any takers?
0 to 150mph in 8 seconds!!
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/motors ... ently-sale
#2 Re: World's fastest E Type
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:38 pm
by Joes66
Hmm yes please
When Tom walkinshaw asked them how much hp they wanted
Rob Beere just said "Yes please"
#3 Re: World's fastest E Type
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2021 9:56 am
by malcolm
Scroll down this link a little and there is a good video of it in action
https://www.carscoops.com/2021/02/1971- ... ollection/
#4 Re: World's fastest E Type
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2021 5:45 pm
by TurboScab
This has been for sale for a very, very long time. I'm sure I first saw it about 5 years ago.
https://www.classicandsportscar.com/new ... -for-grabs
The Car and Classic ad has had over 30000 views over the years.
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C548956
Presumably, the magazines are reporting it now only because it's being auctioned?
#5 Re: World's fastest E Type
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 2:16 pm
by Jeremy
Er...is it really an E type??
#6 Re: World's fastest E Type
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:48 am
by steve3.8
Jeremy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 2:16 pm
Er...is it really an E type??
Its obviously not useable on the road, but in a racing sense definitely yes --and as such should be celebrated as the extreme development of the E .
It's unfortunate though that it has not been run or had a shakedown in the last 8 years since it was put back together -- it's now 20 years since it's last race.
Note the dry sump ,bellhousing mod , gearbox sideways to lower COG
#7 Re: World's fastest E Type
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:57 am
by christopher storey
I sympathise with Jeremy's question and his implied view . This is really a "special" based loosely on E type shape and mechanicals . I remember it well from Malcolm Hamilton's days when it was undoubtedly both noisy and fast , but not in truth terribly interesting because in execution it was so far away from the real car - the slicks really tell you everything you need to know , as does the butchered interior with its strange supplementary longitudinal box section, and the completely altered rear suspension
#8 Re: World's fastest E Type
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 3:40 pm
by Robbiee
So....not really an etype
#9 Re: World's fastest E Type
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:27 am
by Mich7920
#10 Re: World's fastest E Type
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:19 am
by Joes66
From the pictures it seems very much an e type
Modified yes,but mostly e type
From the blurb it was a 1971 car
Probably more original e type still in it than most restored e types in peoples garages lol
So how much original car is still in one of these 100 grand plus cars?
Like that D type some years back that had less than 5 percent of the original car!
Joe
