Agreed. The only real choice should be coupe or roadster… though if someone offered me the low drag E-type, I wouldn’t say no!

Only on the first series cars Moggy!

By the time they revised the E-type – for series 1.5 – they had realised their **** up and got rid of the Dunlop discs, pathetic two pot brake calipers and the Kelsey-hayes brake booster (which was most of the problem, as it reduced the pedal assistance the slower the car was going) and replaced the whole set up with Lockheed Girling components.

This comprised of proper vacuum assistance and three pot calipers with greater pad area… coincidentally a lot of the same system is used by Lotus cars of the era, and some Aston Martins. This set up was then used on the E-type S1.5, 2 and 3, the 420, and the XJ6. It was (and is) still more than up to the task.

If they had used the set up as used on the Mk2 they wouldn’t have had a problem… but a lot of the development of the E-type came directly from the D-type, and the brake system was similar. It was of no problem to racing drivers who often asked for their competition E-types to have the assistance removed altogether.

Rich

For all those that slate the E-types handling… remember that the innovative rear suspension design was copied by F1 cars of the day, and lived on in saloon and sports cars right up until the Aston Martin DB7.

Moggy brings up a good point regarding the brakes… early cars were very under braked. The problem was when it got revised, the E-type got revised as a whole an it got fat.

A decent sorted E-type is a quick car. Look at the ‘Eagle’ cars for what can be achieved if the basic design is given a few tweaks based on research from the last couple of decades.

Ben says “Thanks!”

He has been trying to contact the webmaster this past week in order to sort his issues out – unfortunately with little success.

Rich

I’ve driven a couple of E-types that are heavily pampered, and lightly modified. They’re not too bad, but I don’t fit. 🙁

I have tried a couple of Lightnings for size (not live ones though..) and found to my delight I do fit in those. 😀

Jaguar got a press shoot of one of their cars with the Jaguar aircraft – supposedly part of an agreement made after use of the Spitfire name by Triumph some years earlier.

I have it somewhere, if I can find it I’ll post it.

Now there would be a serious dilemma for me. Stood on the tarmac, which one do I like more? Aaarrrgh!!!

Fair is fair! That means one of you is going to be ‘designated driver’. I nominate Blue_2…