Special cars command big bucks. This 1963 Jaguar Lightweight E-Type is one special car that's just bit extra special, and it will soon head to a new home as it's bound for Bonhams' auction during 2017 Monterey Car Week this August. A Jaguar E-Type will Billed as one of the most stunning automotive designs in the world, the legendary Jaguar E-Type is today a very rare sight – even more so when discussing the Lightweight version. This is because originally just 12 were produced, with one of them being The Lightweight E-Type was exotic in 1963: steel body traded for aluminum to save 250 pounds, a ripping D-Type racing engine between the fenders. By 1964, it wasn't exotic enough. Only 12 of the planned 18 were built, leaving six gaping holes in the A 1963 Jaguar E-Type Lightweight Competition Coupe will be offered at the 2017 Bonhams Quail Lodge auction, scheduled for Friday, August 18th at Quail Lodge in Carmel, California. The ex-Team Cunningham Jaguar will be among the headline consignments at complete with 3.8-litre straight six engines This car, on the 5115 WK reg plate, is the Lightweight E-Type number 7 of 12. Jaguar Land Rover’s Special Operations department introduced its “continuation” Lightweight E-Type at the opening reception of the Pebble Beach automotive weekend. Six will be built, each assigned a chassis number from the 1963 run “Special GT E .
In many ways this is the perfect classic car, an absolutely faithful replica of the revered Lightweight E-type racer of the Sixties, produced by its original manufacturer more than 50 years later. The Lightweight E-type was produced from 1963-4 purely for “Bremont’s strength is to tell historical stories,” Ian Callum, Jaguar’s director of design told me just a short few weeks ago as I visited the automobile company’s Gaydon, England factory. Callum seems to have taken quite a shine to Bremont; the The auto industry is so convinced of its own progress that it only ever looks backward to point out how much better something is than whatever it replaced. Better torsional rigidity! Better flame propagation under low-load conditions! Better thermal Jaguar has released the first pictures of the new limited edition Lightweight E-type, developed and built by Jaguar Heritage part of Jaguar Land Rover’s new Special Operations division. With a price tag of over £1m only six models are being built and .
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