RE: £4m classic on the limit...

[MycroftWard]

Brave!

[anonymous-user]

Awesome. Takes a special kind of balls and talent to do that.

Wish they put an external mic into the GoPro, it's not hard and it would kill that blow back from the mic aka 'the packet of crisps' noise.

[mybrainhurts]

Grenoble said:

Nice article, but PH needs to invest in a spell checker.

"Check out the video of Arif's herioc drive here."

It's Welsh, you 'tard...

[RenesisEvo]

Is it me or does the rev counter run anti-clockwise?

[JaguarsportXJR]

RenesisEvo said:

Is it me or does the rev counter run anti-clockwise?

Yes, it does. Did on the D too, if I recall.

[PhantomPH]

Mutema said:

Awesome. Takes a special kind of balls and talent to do that.

Wish they put an external mic into the GoPro, it's not hard and it would kill that blow back from the mic aka 'the packet of crisps' noise.

The new ones allow an external mic to be plugged in.

[andye30m3]

Great to see these cars still being used despite their value.

Reminds me of watching Anthony Reid driving Nigel Webb's C-type flat out at the goodwood revival this year.

[Adz The Rat]

Probably the only Jaguar (apart from a XJ220) that interests me, lovely.

[FlossyThePig]

Blackpuddin said:

marmite monster said:

no roll over bar death on a stick !

My first thought too, fabulous car

Someone put seatbelts in. Not an original feature.

[MycroftWard]

FlossyThePig said:

Blackpuddin said:

marmite monster said:

no roll over bar death on a stick !

My first thought too, fabulous car

Someone put seatbelts in. Not an original feature.

Sacrilege!!

[Skater12]

Rare and expensive Car - Check
Stupidly wet track - check
Handful of brave pills and balls of steel - check and check
Tallyho !

[binnerboy]

my wife's uncle is behind the "classic-jaguar-racing" website. He does replicas of c, d and e types which , depending on spec, are so original they qualify for FIA historic racing.

i love em and one of his replica's , the racing low drag e-type, is in my lottery garage. also saw a load of them racing a Castle Coombe at the Dyrham revival event that was aweseome too

[Dr Z]

That's a brilliant video. Would love to have heard that straight-6 more instead of the wind noise.

PistonHeads. Sound Recording Matters.

[Martin 480 Turbo]

You guys get Jaguar to take you out on a C-Type
with a works driver at the wheel and you arrive
with a Phone in hand as "recording device". I can
find 1000. vids like that on yt.

What a shame. Someone needs a booting.

[Itsallicanafford]

...great car, but i sometimes struggle with £x million pound cars. Don't get me wrong, i love the fact they exist and understand they are worth what somebody will pay for them...but in the end of the day, looking at them in a cold, unemotional way, are they not just about £500 quids worth of scrap metals etc...I just cannot objectively see the value in them...maybe they should be made out of gold or something to help with these valuations?

[stephen300o]

Itsallicanafford said:

...great car, but i sometimes struggle with £x million pound cars. Don't get me wrong, i love the fact they exist and understand they are worth what somebody will pay for them...but in the end of the day, looking at them in a cold, unemotional way, are they not just about £500 quids worth of scrap metals etc...I just cannot objectively see the value in them...maybe they should be made out of gold or something to help with these valuations?

Gold is just yellow metal, the Mona Lisa is just paint and cloth.

[spoodler]

Itsallicanafford - you truly have my sympathy if you can only see the value of the raw materials. I take it you can also not see a painting as being worth more than the value of the paint and canvas?

Whilst £4,000,000 is a lot of noughts how do you value an apartment in Chelsea - just somewhere to keep you dry when sleeping...

Try looking at it as half a century of experiences, history, dreams and aspirations... slightly better?

[scholesy]

Itsallicanafford said:

...great car, but i sometimes struggle with £x million pound cars. Don't get me wrong, i love the fact they exist and understand they are worth what somebody will pay for them...but in the end of the day, looking at them in a cold, unemotional way, are they not just about £500 quids worth of scrap metals etc...I just cannot objectively see the value in them...maybe they should be made out of gold or something to help with these valuations?

It is odd when you think that it is really an entirely reproducible bit of metal, obviously you can't make the history and heritage that goes with it, but I know what you're saying at root. Strange things us human beings, nostalgia and provenance can make something arguably worthless, priceless, just like that, all because of an emotion.

[Crook]

"I haven't got tourettes"

[grumpy52]

He probably won't be interested in the pre-production e-type on ebay for £175,000 then.
These cars can only be appreciated in the flesh.they seem to eminate all their history. or is it just me .
These sort of cars are hardcore auto pron.