Friday 11th February 2011

Pic Of The Week: Happy 50th, Jaguar E-Type

Half a century of automotive beauty. Definitely worth a POTW...

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Like we said earlier in the week, it merely takes the flimsiest of excuses fro us to post up a nice pic of a Jaguar E-Type, and the news that Coventry City FC is to host a display of 50 E-Types in April was all we needed.

But a mere news story photo, we felt, was not sufficient to do proper justice to a car whose lines are so revered it's been on permanent display in the New York Museum of Modern Art since the mid-1990s.

So here it is, the same picture again, but in full POTW technicolour glory (and without that darned PistonHeads banner spoiling the rear end). Enjoy...

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[2volvos]

There is an old Denis Jenkinson book about running around Europe as Motor Sport's Grand Prix reporter in a series of 356 Porsches and then an FHC E-Type. One photo caption I remember was of the 356 below his hotel bedroom window along the lines of how you can really tell a well styled car if it looks good from above.

Not the most interesting post ever, but that's what the pic reminded me of...

Edited by 2volvos on Friday 11th February 11:59

[2volvos]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Passion-Porsches-Denis-Jen...

That's the one...

[2volvos]

Mr Cerbera said:

My Uncle opened a shop a long way from my home wher I used to live with my Gran. Because it was her son, she always used to make me walk to HIS shop to get the groceries. The only redeeming factor to this trudge was the opportunity to occasionally walk past a 4.2 series 2 roadster, in cream.

An indeligible mark of beauty and joy in my motoring history.

Oh, and OP ?.....

Yep, that Chrysler Voyager looks great...