This car has an unusual combination of features. It has the old-style Series 1 bumpers & taillights, and no side marker lights. It also has no "wings" on the knock-off hubs and no headlight covers, but the headlights lack the prominent raised mounting of the later cars.
I'm no Jag expert, but I think that makes this 4.2L E-type a very late Series 1 car and not one of the interim cars dubbed the "Series 1½" that preceded the Series 2 cars in the '68 model year. It would have still had the triple SU carb setup and brought the full complement of 265 ponies to the rodeo.
Like a C2 Corvette, just seeing an E-type in the wild justifies having dragged the camera along with me all day.
This one was photographed using a Nikon D7100 and a 16-80mm f/2.8-4E zoom lens in June of 2022.
No comments:
Post a Comment