Is The Legend Of The Lightweight Jaguar E Type Justified?
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Forget the Eagle Speedster or other recreations...In this video I drive this incredible race derived E-type and tell you the story of the E-Type lightweight. It was made for racing and is one of the rarest cars ever with only 12 produced. This particular car is a Series 1, it was raced by Stirling Moss and has a 4.2L race spec engine with 380HP.
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In 1965 Jaguar actually built two Semi Lightweights for private clients. They were based on a steel tub with aluminium bonnet, hard top & boot lid. The engines were built in the Experimental Engine shop and had gas flowed cyliner heads by "Windy" our flow expert with larger inlet valves and weber carburettors and mated to the heavy duty ZF 5 speed gearbox. The exhaust system used free flow silencers from Chiswick & Wright rather than the very restrictive production units needed for the US regulations. Dunlop Lightweight wheels with wider special SP41 tyres were fitted. As a junior engineer in the Experimental Department I was tasked with putting on some miles and doing a final road test before the handover to the client, so in the summer of '65 I drove over 500 road miles in this superb car which was certainly the fastest English road car of its time. Actually I didn't drive a better road car until 10 years later when I bought a Porsche Carrera 2.7 RS....but that's another story!
THIS is what a sports car should be - raucous, urgent, aggressive gorgeous
That grin made commentary practically redundant.
TOTALLY
Yes, it was perpetual lol. In fact Jack struggled to say much at all such was that driving experience. The red leather a wonderful contrast to the various racing paraphernalia and bare metal. Brutal, yet subtle apparently. No doubt an interesting car to sample.
Sounded like my Big old boxer when he stood between my wife and a man who had made her feel uneasy by the way he was looking at her.l will never forget the angry warning rumble that grew out of his chest it was hairs on the back of the neck stuff .
Listening to this car did that
So did that slightly furtive look around the cockpit just after the engine fired up. 😅
@@TamTran-vw7zm can you imagine the feeling of being in there, knowing the experience that awaits shortly you? I enjoy driving my V8 Lexus, but this a completely different animal.
What an amazing car/toy.... I think for £150k you'd struggle to get the same experience with anything else, cracking stuff as always Jack buddy 👍
150k would get you an elan 26r for a similarly hair raising grin forging experience
@@eskamobob8662 thats a light weight e nearly the same as having a d-type i khoww what i would rather have!! no insult to the lotus though !
Hi Jack….WOW!! I had the amazing opportunity to sit next to Stirling in that very car on the Manx Mountain Challenge!! My Dad and I ran a Daimler SP250 behind the Jag on that event. Mike McCarthy was the journalist for Classic & Sportscars magazine riding as Stirling’s navigator, and he wanted to have a ride in the SP250…so I ended up next to Stirling for a section of the rally!! A memory I will never forget…he was such a lovely gentleman and a car I’d love to own just for the memory. Wait a minute…I just sold my GT6 race car….hmmmm
Wow.. what a story Mark.. and thanks for watching!
I just went off to search 'Daimler SP250' and was rewarded with the history of that being born as the Daimler Dart but Chrysler owns that model name so they used the project number SP250 from then on. I've seen more than one in Canada and the owner I talked to calls it a Dart. I can't remember the badge emblems, if any.
@@charlieross-BRM Most owners outside the USA still refer to them as Daimler Darts. UK Police even had a few to chase the cafe racers (bikes) back in the day. There is a great book by Brian Long if you want to read the full background. The engine is what actually makes it so special. The sweetest sounding (Edward Turner designed) V8 ever made. Plenty for Jack to talk about on a future episode.
The SP 250 wasn't refined until Jaguar became the manufacturer. The early SP 250's had an understrength frame and the doors would pop open if you pushed it hard when cornering. Jaguar cleaned the bugs out and the '62 and '63 models are really good cars. I have been looking for a good example for about a year now. Most of the cars for sale are butchered or on sham websites. It sounds like you were in a good one!
One of the best sounding cars in all England as well as one of the best handling, for vintage, I am sure. I would be dead in a week in that car, but I would be smiling at moment of impact.
Followed an E type in the Cotswolds the other day in my Boxster and I could barely keep up! Respect to an awesome car
Hardly surprising really 😂
@@maverick4177 You’ve clearly not driven a Boxster then (early 2.5 excluded TBF) !
I believe the Boxster would certainly struggle to keep up with a semi lightweight, just looking at the numbers the Porsche would be heavier at around 1300kg and have less power at something like 290hp.
The E_type is the most desirable and most beautiful car ever. How do you describe this one. No need to your massive smile said it all. Thank you Jack and Richard.. what a motor..
Wonderful straight 6 will keep on going for years 😮
That noise on start up, is absolutely _wonderful_ ! 🙂
What a fantastic car -so glad you chose to feature this incredible machine - you lucky, lucky boy Jack! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Back in the 70's a school mates dad owned (for 3/4 decades) the famous Jaguar "4 WPD" which was THE prototype lightweight E-Type. "4 WPD" is now worth millions! "4 WPD" was all aluminium and had D-Type racing heads IIRC. Gordon Brown who owned the car was an ordinary working class bloke and certainly not a multi-millionaire but just a fella who loved and owned/drove Jags (and Daimlers). On the odd occasion 4 WPD would be fettled before an outing somewhere the sound of the car being fired up was incredible. Far more raw than even this car. Amazing cars!
Any straight 6cyl has an incredible induction and exhaust noise. I personally love my 265ci HEMI 6 here in Australia, 350hp 6500rpm and the noise,,,,,It’s because all the crank throws are at an even 120deg. Inherent balance.
Them pulls to 5k were magical - The sound of that car is like a finely tuned instrument- She has it all - looks, sounds, pace and feel - Now would I go for that E-Type or an electric car for the same money - FFS no contest there - What a proper car
I was impressed with Jack's restraint and maturity... I'll bet 5.5K is were the rear tires break free on those roads!
Jaguar has always been one of my favorite car brands. Specializing my craft with them for many years, I've driven my fair share of E-Type's but this one is a step above the rest! Thank you for the experience and reignite great my fond memories!
I spent the day at Donnington park yesterday watching beautiful machines like this tear round the track . What an amazing car .
Wonderful to see this beautiful car at Jack's car meet at Bicester today.
Great video Jack. You’re a brave fella driving that lightweight briskly in such slippery conditions. Especially on what looks like crap tires…..
Gorgeous speciman with a remarkable history! The sound is absolutely sublime! Thank you for the informative background recap! Being behind the wheel of this unique beauty, is undoubtedly a surreal experience!
Superb content Jack Sir✌✌👍
Thank you Mohammad!! Have a great week!
Jealous? Me? Don't be silly!
I have been looking for info on these lightweight E-types for years, so thank you very much for this video! When I was living in Upstate New York back in he 1990's -
I stopped into a tiny garage set among the trees to get some welding done to a broken part on the bottom of my old van - AND I knew this was a special place because they had an old white Rolls Royce out front in perfect condition.
While waiting I walked into a back room and there sat a aluminum E-type, with some of the body off EXACTLY like this one, yet all original.
The owner doing a very slow restoration told me it is THE car Elvis Presley drives off in at the end of a movie {VIVA Las VEGS I think} The top off and with Ann Margret sitting next to him, reluctantly since it was crazy fast! This one had the vent opening on the trunk, the real thing.
I do not know what became of the car, life took a bad turn for me, yet what a find it would be if it was still out there - near Woodstock NY!
Oh it was left hand drive and watching the very end of the movie one can see while the close up is of Ann and Elvis, when they drive off it is a 'stunt double' in the right seat in the Jag, since she was terirfied of how Elvis drove!
I had an E reg Citroen BX diesel and the back box fell off on the way back from Wales. It sounded exactly like this car
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Racing etype on the cheap!
Legend 😂😂😂
A bit like my 2CV before I renewed the gaskets...
Dont know how I missed this video, but I´ve watched it now 😁
Chapeau!
Around 30 years ago I was down at Tim Swadkin's place having one of my race engine dynoed and there was a lightweight E Type in the workshop, I was hanging around waiting for Tim to get to my job so I listened in on an argument/discussion between the owner of the Jag and a Cossy owner who had had a chip conversion done on his engine to around 400 hp, the Ford guy was saying that due to technological advances in suspension and turbo power a hot Cossy would beat a lightweight E Type out on the road in the present day, well obviously it ended up with the 2 cars going out to see who had the biggest cock, well about a half hour later they came back and apparently the Jag had pissed all over the Cosworth! Roland, HT Racing Ltd
Perhaps 30 years ago. Performance metrics have changed a lot over the years. A lightweight Series 1 E type in 1993 was only a 30 year old car, so not that old yet and very fast for 1993 if it was well prepped. Most modified stripped out 1960s old sportscars were probably faster than most 1990s road cars. Things moved on a lot over the next 30 years though. Today road cars have even greater tyre, brake and transmission advances. To the point even a 1980s supercar is generally beaten up easily on the road by £40k hot hatches. Case in point you'll struggle to beat a 2023 Civic Type R or Golf R in an F40 or Jaguar XJ220. Those cross ply tyres seen on 1960s racing machines are absolutely no match for 21st century tyres even if they hung on in the early 1990s.
@@pgr3290 The shopping trolleys you mention wouldn’t get near a lightweight E type, despite its sixty years; they may be nearly as powerful, but they weigh almost twice as much.
@@philnorton9723 Unfortunately you're not living in the real world. A Civic Type R and Golf R on modern tyres beats supercars of just 15 years ago around circuits, and even fabled hyper cars of less than 40 years ago fall victim to modern technological advances. On the road AWD systems such as in the Golf mean all weathers and all circumstances the traction available is enormous. While the Jaguar is no doubt fast by some standards it will lose regardless. The weight of modern cars does not prevent them being faster. They are universally so thanks to dual clutch gearboxes, superior brakes, suspension, but mostly tyres all said and done. A 2023 Golf R can do 0-60 in under 4 seconds, a quarter mile in less than 13 seconds and lap the Nurburgring faster than a V10 Lamborghini Gallardo or lightweight track focused Lotus Exige S. No lightweight E Type on inner tubes and cross plies is getting close to any of those numbers.....And yes, you read that right. A two seat dedicated sports car from just 10 years ago in the Lotus Exige S which weighs less than 1200kg, has 345bhp, track focused modern tyres and brakes, track suspension and actual serious downforce none of which the Jag has was beaten around a circuit by a Golf R shopping trolley as you call it. People don't realise.
@@pgr3290 I read your earlier, now deleted reply.😇 Check the weight of a lightweight E type; quite a lot less than 1,200 kg (even the standard steel car weighs less than that), as for suspension, it's hard to beat a fully adjustable double wishbone system. Why would a sixty year old car not also be on 2023 tyres? Modern shopping trolleys have come a long way, but zero to sixty, and Nurburgring laps are not a particularly good measure of real world performance, although they may help sales.😎
@@philnorton9723 It doesn't matter what you think. A lightweight 60 year old E Type on cross ply tyres is not faster on the road or around a circuit than a Lotus Exige S or a Golf R. I have driven hundreds if not thousands of performance cars in my life at this point and the tyres hold the key. You harping on about weight is meaningless when a Golf R and Civic Type R can be much heavier than a sports car or old supercars and still astonishingly beat them on the circuit, because that's modern performance hot hatch and tyre technology these days. Real world performance of a lightweight E Type Jaguar will be far lower, because typical sub optimal road surfaces, low temperatures, damp or wet weather conditions etc affect a rear drive lightweight car on cross ply tyres vastly more than an four wheel drive hot hatch on modern rubber. Ridiculously more traction. By the time the Jaguar exits a damp corner sideways on quarter throttle with the rear wheels still spinning the Golf hooks up and is gone. Here's me pointing out solid evidence of heavy modern hatches being provably quicker on circuits than decade old dedicated sports cars and many supercars and you provide nothing but your obvious lack of knowledge and understanding. Good stuff. The E type is a glorious car. A performance match for modern super hatches? Absolutely not in any measurable metric.
You being permitted to showcase such a magnificent, storied car jumps your channel up several notches, Jack! I’d normally expect the likes of Chris Harriss to be driving and presenting something of its calibre.
yeah i get that but chris is jaded i like jacks enthusiasm because thats what it is about !! no offence to chris !!
Sounds fantastic Jack! Great video. 👍🏻👍🏻
Awesome car. Sounds great. Thank you for showcasing these older and super rare cars. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
Gorgeous! What a sound!🔥🔥🔥
Fantastic beast! That was a great little segment demonstrating the startup. 👍🇦🇺
Love that the owner is good with you thrashing it about in shite weather the way a car should be driven. Well done... great vid Jack. Thanks
Yep, he was an absolute legend. Top lad.
WHat a car! I am very envious of you Jack. A true classic.
My favourite Number 27 review, thusfar! As a young lad the E-Type was my favourite car and the racing variations made the best even better! Thanks again!
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you! 😊
Nice alternative video, Jack! Super historical information too!! I hope Jaguar are looking at this and reconsidering their future plans for electrification.....
Ohhh! ALL THE SOUNDS! Jack - well done fella, another well produced, interesting posting. You jammy sod! this would be up top of my dream drive/rides. 😀
What a car! Perhaps matey boy from Australia will be interested🤣
🤣🤣 he’ll buy two!
6500 RPM is not enough for 390 BHP from a 4.2 aspirated engine. You will need about 7500 - 8000 RPM.
Looks wonderful, appears to be a very entertaining and enjoyable drive - with an engine makes a sound that surely nobody could tire of. Thanks for another glance at a true and rare classic design.
Thank you for watching!
I love this beautiful driving machine. Thank you for showing us this great car.
Great video Jack, as a guy similar in age to yourself it’s really good to some real classics being driven, even a more modern version
Fabulous car! I had a '67 4.2 for many years with several upgrades including XJ radials but it was never shy of a "tail out" attitude! Brilliant handful!
Brilliant video, Jack. What a car.
Thanks Jack! Amazing car. You always drive such interesting cars.
Glad you enjoyed it Fella! Thanks for watching
Great video keep up the good work 👍
Glorious… thanks for sharing.
00:37 - Red Capri 2.8i Special? HELLS YESSS PLEASE! 👌👍😉
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MOST ENJOYABLE - THANK YOU .
Great driving in the rain
Jack, your best video so far. How did you get a ride in that car? Pity the rain, but what a hoot. Well done. Keep up the good work.
4:40 the look on your face when you start that thing up lol
Sunny Sunday afternoons couldn't get any better thin this!
The look on your face! It's priceless!! You jammy g-t, getting to drive such a wonderful beast!!!
Great video early enjoyed it, there is a car body shop in Nuneaton that makes panels for classic cars , ive seen one of these lightweight e E Types in their showroom, stunning car .
One of your best, your infectious laugh made this a great video.
YOU SIR are a very luck individual! What an awesome car. E-types are fantastic and this is pushing E-Types to the next level! Fantastic opportunity! And if I win the lotto somehow I will buy it!
My god what a stunner!!! Well done mate! I said you looked good in the Bentley, but you really look good in that! You should make an offer! :) Cheers Jack!
Gorgeous. Immediate response, essential. Proper direct controls. I guess after you drive something like this, you get out feeling truly fulfilled.
But, as we have over one hundred days of rain here in blighty, why o why do you tolerate lift off wipers (three in this case) one working when it can be bothered, and the other two a different angle of sweep on each wipe, odd eh. Rain X anybody.
Thank you Jack. As always nicely done.
Superb. Brilliant. Beautifull. Amazing. Wow! ...what car!
As far as I am aware, the reason Jaguar only made 12 of the 18 Lightweights, was a fire at the Browns Lane factory destroyed the other 6. Great video by the way.
Thought that was in 1957 years before e type that was developed and released for 1960/61 and racing lightweights of 1962/63
@@bluesteel6612 Yes, you could be right. Seems like I got my dates confused.
Grazie Giac, sound reminded me of an E Type I first saw in Italy in 1963. Autostrada near to Genova, and an E Type with Saudi plates went racing past, exhaust was loud (or at least I remember).
"Let's ta,e it up through the gears" ......envy button enabled !!!.....what a machine !!!!..
Thank you for an exhilarating video (It got me covered in goosebumps! 😂)!!
Love it! I am too big and too poor gor one but how fun it looks!
Another Gem of a car, he gets to drive some amazing cars.
I love that big bonkers ignition light, couldn't miss that one! What a car. A racing car (that is what it is) of such specification needs to be driven, as you say 'it does not drive itself'. Even the race cars of today require some skill and that is with all their fancy drive by wire..This would probably scare the pants off me on a track but what an experience! I was with you in that car, you portrayed the driving experience well and your excitement showed! Thanks Jack for bringing such joy even on a lousy day such as you had there.👍👍
Could be wrong but I reckon that's an oil pressure warning light, rather than ignition. I've seen a few racers with very prominent oil lights - so they stand a chance of noticing a fault early before the engine explodes!
You could destroy Alderaan with that light!
@@StupStups Yes thinking about it that is more likely to be an oil light rather than ignition.
That left wiper was crying.
Poor poor Jack. Your job is absolutely brutal! I hope that you can survive. And this is why your channel is a favorite.! That sound!
It’s hateful, every day having to drive these cars when I could be in an office all day. Do it all for you guys! 😋
That was boxing day with no wrap! Wow! Loved every minute of it!
Same feeling i had in a Ferrari Daytona! Race car! Hard to explain!
Jack livin’ the dream! What a way to start the week! Thank you 🤝
Absolutely!! Thanks for watching buddy
awesome sound.
Goood review as always can always find some interesting
Cars especially the
E type
Light weight
Cheers Garry! Have a great week
Great video.
Your smile tells us how much you love the car.
If you ride motorcycles, get a ride on a Honda CBX,z or a model, preferably with a nice after market exhaust. Similar to the XK engine, DOHC 24 valve, air cooled, in-line 6. It will thrill you as much as this Jaguar does. Guaranteed!
Oof!! What a car! Glad you got a go in this Jack, your new dream car?! Thanks to the owner for letting you show it too! Thanks Jack! 🙏🙏
Thank as always for your continued support chap. Glad you enjoyed it!
i was thinking .... light weight e-type wet roads light right foot please jack!!! old school proper racer ! would love one ! keep up the testing jack ...after all some one has to do it!!!!
Jack you lucky boy,can tell how great that car is on my iPad flipping lovely 👍
I loved it!! Hope you’re keeping well Michael!
Great car. Wish the roads had been dryer, but was still an exciting ride. It is, IMO, more race car than street car, but that is what makes it so special. Reminds me of the XKSS street D Jags. Had the pleasure of seeing Steve McQueen driving his one day here in Los Angeles. He probably would have loved getting his hands on this car.
Oh wow I’m not an E Type at all but that I absolutely love
That looked and sounded like such a cool driving experience
You can't but love a etype what a great car ❤
Simply glorious
The smile said it all!!!!
Ever since having a little Matchbox E-type production model it was my dream to own the real thing. Then when a family friend who ran a British specialty repair shop got one in I finally had a chance to sit in one. I slid the seat all the way back…and I still didn’t fit. Who knew the toy and the real car shared interior dimensions?
I have a Volvo XC-90 now. There’s definitely room inside those.
Had a 65 E type…. But that’s something else….. love the exhaust overrun 😉👌🏼😎
Fantastic.
in the early 90s, my brother bought a couple of rusty old jag trade-ins, and, as expected, blew the motor on the series 3. with the right contacts, the cheapest place to get it rebuilt was a firm that normally built uprated engines for Etype jag racing series cars. after talking to them, we realised for a few hundred quid more, we could have a decent engine built by them, + being fuel injected already, quite easy to tune.
one month later, a metallic red C reg series 3, running modified induction + almost straight through exhaust system, is seen in kielder forest, on full lock +full throttle, scattering the old biddies [out for a weekend walk], spraying them with gravel, making the same damned noise as that jag you drove... PS, it got bodged up, resprayed, hushed a little, + sold to a wedding car outfit, no more late brides...
Quite a car, quite a review👍😀
Very nice 👍
Magnificent automobile, thrilling to just watch this
That made me smile 😊
I watch , I listen, I enjoy.
What a stunning looking and sounding car, for similar money to an immaculate restored road car I know which I'd have in an instant.
What a great car .
I want one.
What a gorgeous E-Type. Bet your ears were ringing after that!
EPIC !
Sounds so sweet ,
Very nice.
I'd just be happy to drive a car that Sir Stirling had.
The soundtrack and experience is a wonderful bonus, here.
(Sounds very Austin Healey 3000 to me)
Nice sound, great history and story. Although I must be the only person that doesn't "get" the E-Type, or the love that people have for them. Sorry, don't flame me!
This video takes you into Harry’s Garage territory. That thing is awesome.
Thank you!! That is a compliment indeed..
@@Number27 Using his favorite test route too... 😉
You guys never get a break with the weather ! Surprised the car had roll up windows.....