LYNX 1963 LOW-DRAG E-TYPE In the Indian summer of 1961, Wolfgang von Trips was killed at Monza in the Ferrari Sharknose, and an American college student—a Trips fan—made a gesture about driving fast cars to mark his passing. He swapped his first car, a Fiat 1100 sedan, for the first sports car he saw for sale, a 1954 Jaguar XK120, and for many months, through a cold Boston winter, never put the top up and drove as if speed and…
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