Lightweight E-type Re-creation
In 1963 Jaguar began a production run of 18 special Lightweight E‐type race cars. Only 12 of the 18 were produced, the last delivered in 1964. This left 6 chassis numbers dormant for the next 50 years.
Now, the Heritage division of Jaguar is going to build the last six remaining Lightweight racing E‐types.
See this flyer for details: E-Type Lightweight – 05-14-14
Doc’s Apple Blossom Meet May 9~11 in Front Royal, VA. Now in its 51st year! This is one of the oldest regional Hudson meets.
Thanks to AUTOWEEK
Need to watch the whole thing as painful as the first video is. It is hysterical, love the guy changing a spinner wheel with a short sledge hammer. –D2
Thanks to club member Dr. Mel Perry for calling our attention to this amazing video.
The Inland Empire Jaguar Club has added a new event to the JCNA online Calendar
Date: 2014-09-28
Type: Concours
Name: Inland Empire Jagstravaganza
Santioned: P
Location: 4949 South Mission Road, Fallbrook, 92028 CA
Chair: Jennifer Hanson, 868-699-3385, jd_hanson@hotmail.com
Co-chair: Jocelyn Kelley
Chief Judge:
Additional information on this event can be found in the JCNA Online Calendar : http://www.jcna.com/calendar/events.php
” … 50 years after its debut at the Geneva and New York auto shows, we’ll start with the E-type’s most important contribution: It created innumerable car folk and instilled a new generation with passion for the art, science and exhilaration of the automobile.”
As AUTOWEEK puts it: Retracing Steve McQueen’s Los Angeles in his Jaguar XKSS, or The King of Cool meets the coolest car ever
Superbly enhanced (non-standard) but beautiful car!
For those old enough to remember Bobby Darin and his wife, Sandra Dee, or who are classic custom car fans, you’ll enjoy this. Here is a blast from the past from Don Henry via Jack Humphrey.
The 1960 DiDia 150 was a luxury, custom-designed iconic, handmade car also known as the “Dream Car” forever associated with its second owner, singer Bobby Darin. The car was designed by Andrew Di Dia, a clothing designer who Bobby Darin had met whilst on tour in Detroit in 1957. Darin told Di Dia at that time he would purchase the car if he ever “hit it big”.
Here are Bobby and Di posing with Bobby’s Dream Car.
For seven years, from 1953 to 1960 the DiDia 150 was hand-built by four workers. The body was hand-formed by Ron Clark and constructed by Bob Kaiser from Clark Kaiser Customs. Its metallic red paint was made with 30 coats of ground diamonds for sparkle.
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