1963 E type historic race car

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This is a build for a customer of my mate,Peter Thurston.
The customer wanted to go historic racing and already had this base car .
A 1963 series 1 Jaguar E type 3.8 roadster LHD .
Going for FIA spec with full alloy front ,doors,boot lid and a hard top
Colour will be Opalescent Dark Blue .
The vast majority of the work will be carried out in house .

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Cleaning up the shell and they have found old damage and bodged repairs.
They probably drilled holes then used screws and a slide hammer and finally covered it in filler .
The old damage will be cut out and new metal fabricated and welded in .

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The bootlid has had the skin removed ,the frame has all been cleaned and is now ready for the lightweight skin .

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cutting out the old damage and repairs , replaced with new metal .

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Peter the cars builder had a visit from my cousin Lee Follet of FG Race Fabrications yesterday to do an initial inspection and measurement for fabrication of the roll cage .
Lee has done work for Peter before on his 2CV8 race car .

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The aluminium has been cut for the boot lid .

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To buy one in is about £2k .
It's basic old school bodyshop work so no reason not to be done in house ,and save a fair chunk of money .
Hopefully the hard top will arrive tomorrow. The hard top has a vent built in . This vent will be replicated to scale on the boot lid .
Peter the builder is very good at the technical stuff but is very particular about the aesthetics of whatever he builds or restores .

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Basic skin on the bootlid ,soon to have a large vent fabricated and added .

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All the suspension stripped and blasted and about to go off to the platers

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It's always useful to photograph parts like these ,then you can check that you get back everything that you send .

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A visit from cousin Lee who has made a start on the base plates for the roll cage .

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Removing the fuel filler.
Drilling out all the spot welds .

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The fuel filler is now redundant as an alloy race tank will be fitted in the boot and a filler built through the boot lid .