Ah, spring. The daffodils are showing, the grass has started growing, and young love is in the air. Down Goodwood way, however, there's also a whiff of unburnt petrol in the air, for yesterday was the preview day for the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
While the big news was Aston's new AMR-One car, and the UK debut of the Jaguar XKR-S, there was plenty of other fabulous metal around to whet our appetite for the event proper (30th June - 3rd July, for your diaries' information) - including plenty of E-Type Jaguars, helping to mark the model's 50th anniversary.
Since they say a picture is worth a thousand words, we thought we'd illustrate the story with a few thousand words' worth of images, courtesy of snapper Nick Williams (NWVT).