Heavy Duty Lightweights The year 2011 marks 50 years of the E-Type Jaguar or, as some of you know it better, the XKE. Itās a… Read More...
Automobile manufacturers have long used racing as a tool for both exploring new technologies and advancing marketing agendas, and one of the richest of these… Read More...
John Coombs was literally born into the motoring business, as his multi-talented craftsman father was already working with automobiles when John appeared on the scene.… Read More...
Do you remember the first racecar you ever lusted after? Iām not talking about the āOh, Iād love to own that car,ā kind of puppy-love… Read More...
A million clichĆ©s come to mind. Giant killer is probably the worst, pummelled to death by a thousand newspaper hacks, but thatās exactly what the… Read More...
During my mid-teens a particular photograph in Motor Sport caught my eye. It was of an old Aston Martin racing at Silverstone, and there was… Read More...
I was involved with the E-Type Jaguar right from its inception, initially as an employee under the wing of Lofty England. Following my discharge from… Read More...
Fifty years ago, petrolheads woke one morning to discover that their life had changed, their horizons had widened. Suddenly there was the Jaguar E-Type, the… Read More...
The successor to Jaguarās iconic E-Type was not scheduled to debut until the 1976 model year, andĀ before this happened Jaguar needed to move itsĀ remaining stocks… Read More...
At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in June 1963. Americans Briggs Cunningham and Bob Grossman drove this Cunningham-entered, works-supported Jaguar E-Type to a 9th… Read More...
The year was 1980; the place, Road Atlanta. During the parade lap, Motor Racing Networkās sportscaster Mike Joy set the stage for one of the… Read More...