Jaguar Heritage to build 6 new Lightweight E-types...

[Mike Bell]

That is, according to an item in Autocar this week, allocating 6 chassis numbers assigned but not used in the 60s.......

According to the piece, 18 cars were originally planned when the period 12 were produced, so they are just finishing the production run. Nice!

[Clive Brown]

So how many lightweight E-types will that make it, then?

[Adam43]

Poor Eagle!

I missed that in Autocar today - is this in the Best of British edition?

[gary396]

It's covered in a few sources today. The Autocar one is:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/ne...weight-e-types

[grantp]

Originally Posted by gary396

It's covered in a few sources today. The Autocar one is:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/ne...weight-e-types

Autocar article says they will be built to original specification.

Hmm.

As they were intended for racing originally and, presumably, now as well, would that imply they will be factory fitting the various safety devices required to put them on a track? Or will they need to be stripped and, er, rebuilt first?

[john ruston]

Probably as quick as the Monaco C !

Same age?

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by Adam43

Poor Eagle!

I missed that in Autocar today - is this in the Best of British edition?

This week, May 14th issue.

Who will build them- maybe it could be Eagle, on behalf of JH? The name Jaguar Heritage covers a lot but not race car build. But there is JD Classics who prepare and run their race fleet, so could they be building the new cars? Maybe with help from subcontractors......

Edit- according to the Telegraph they will be built at Browns Lane and come with HTP papers....

[terence]

Will the 5.3ltr engine be an option?
Cant help but think that Jaguar are just a little behind the times.

[Alan Raine]

It didn't take long....... http://sniffpetrol.com/2014/05/15/ja...ew-recreation/

[FastDB2s]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

This week, May 14th issue.

Edit- according to the Telegraph they will be built at Browns Lane and come with HTP papers....

In somebodies garage then as its a housing estate IIRC.

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by Alan Raine

It didn't take long....... http://sniffpetrol.com/2014/05/15/ja...ew-recreation/

I like the "metal" of the spokesman

[simon drabble]

Being the anorak that I am I have read several books about the lightweights and I don't recall the extra chassis numbers being previously discussed. I guess if correct it's no different from the DB4GT Zagato's a few years back.

With so many facsimile's GT40's, Cobras, Élan 26r's as well as E Types racing it does seem we can no longer ignore them and must assume they are here to stay. As values of originals keep climbing the argument will become more compelling. As has been said so many times before there are several well known cars racing today that pass off as original but carry little more than a gearbox from period so this is far from a new issue.

Don't know if this is correct but I was told by a friend who is a bit more plugged in than me into high end race cars they will be in the region of £1 million - so not sure if that makes the current replica "lightweight" cars cheap or not - certainly these presumably will always be worth more as officially sanctioned.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by john ruston

Probably as quick as the Monaco C !

Same age?

Not quite - unless the Es already exist ....

[Mike Bell]

Great piece in Sniffpetrol but think they picked the wrong model. Should have been the later and unloved XJ40 version.....

Re Browns Lane- if it is in the Telegraph that the new cars are to be built there then it must be true! Or is that the Mail.....

[PeterMorley]

One of the stories is that Jaguar had 6 spare/unfinished chassis lying around, odd that no one had spotted them before!

The story about previously allocated chassis numbers is presumably to avoid having to meet modern requirements (which a current manufacturer would be obliged to do) - in the same way that Flugwerks' new Fockewulf FW190s did not have to meet current standards (which would be impossible) because they used numbers that had already been allocated.

Original specification could mean that they won't be able to use many of the currently available replacement parts... If they are to original spec. they will be considerably slower than some of the 'original' cars.

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by PeterMorley

If they are to original spec. they will be considerably slower than some of the 'original' cars.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by PeterMorley

Original specification could mean that they won't be able to use many of the currently available replacement parts... If they are to original spec. they will be considerably slower than some of the 'original' cars.

Hmm. That means it could be an interesting, though somewhat obscure and expensive, way to make a point modern lightweights.

[john ruston]

They presumably will be all original apart from bits that are not!

Probably already sold to the usual Jag gang.

[terence]

Possibly a good time for the original owner of CMS to bite the bullet ans get a body built for the bulkhead section, complete with chassi number, for the original e type prototype.?There must be a build sheet somewhere, probably in an old mechanics dusty tool box waiting to be discovered in a dark corner of Browns Lane!

[zefarelly]

Funny you mention that. I was out in the Cortina the other weekend and driving through Bexhill I was sure I saw half a dozen half built Elva GT160's piled up in a field, they were difficult to see behind the 75 ex Jim Clark Lotus Cortinas the guy had collected.

Originally Posted by PeterMorley

One of the stories is that Jaguar had 6 spare/unfinished chassis lying around, odd that no one had spotted them before! .

[zefarelly]

'New old stock' is the phrase to use for made last week and sprinkled with hoover dust than placed in a tatty box.

Originally Posted by john ruston

They presumably will be all original apart from bits that are not!.

[delta]

Did we not talk about building recreation cars on here a few years back.I think I outlined who was going to head up the build departments.Think I got job as tea boy.

[gary396]

Originally Posted by delta

Did we not talk about building recreation cars on here a few years back.I think I outlined who was going to head up the build departments.Think I got job as tea boy.

As an ex-Jaguar Cars Browns Lane employee (sort of) circa 1976 I might be able to advise on any industrial relations issues. Or should that be 'industrial non-relations'? Blimey, what an eye opener that period was to a then young fresh-faced Jag-sponsored engineering under-graduate newly arrived in the Midlands from 'up north'.

I decided to follow a somewhat different career after that.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by delta

Did we not talk about building recreation cars on here a few years back.I think I outlined who was going to head up the build departments.Think I got job as tea boy.

T-square boy surely?

[grantp]

Originally Posted by gary396

As an ex-Jaguar Cars Browns Lane employee (sort of) circa 1976 I might be able to advise on any industrial relations issues. Or should that be 'industrial non-relations'? Blimey, what an eye opener that period was to a then young fresh-faced Jag-sponsored engineering under-graduate newly arrived in the Midlands from 'up north'.

I decided to follow a somewhat different career after that.

So .... is that where you picked up the clock watching habit?