Speedster gets bespoke aluminium bodywork
This utterly delicious piece of retro loveliness is the Eagle E-type speedster. The one-off special by Jaguar E-type restorers and rebuilders Eagle was revealed at the recent Salon Prive motor show at the Hurlingham Club in London.
The speedster started off life as a standard 1966 E-type and has been turned into this spectacular roadster as a commission for Dr Rick Velaj with a body designed by Paul Brace.
E-type meets C-type racer
The bespoke aluminium bodyshell has hidden A-pillars to give the chopped windscreen a pukka wraparound look, and the sills and the floorpan have been lowered.
Under that gorgeous body, the mechanicals have been thoroughly uprated, too. As well as a wider track, the speedster gets modern tyres, better brakes and uprated suspension (all part of Eagle's Supersports option pack)
4.7-litre six gives 300bhp and 340lb ft
The 4.7-litre straight six (a heavily reworked version of the original car's 4.2) puts out 300bhp and a seriously healthy 340lb ft of torque. Combine that with an 1100kg kerbweight and Eagle reckons that's good enough for 175mph flat out and will hit 60mph in under five seconds.
Sadly it's just a one-off, but if you show the guys at Eagle a suitably large cheque (or better still a blank one), we're pretty sure they could be persuaded to build another.