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Lightweight E Type_Low Drag Coupe

After dani's Abarths, it’s time for me to introduce a new classic in this section :

The Jaguar E-Type Lightweight

Short History :

Shortly after the introduction of the E-type, Jaguar management wanted to investigate the possibility of building a car more in the spirit of the D-type racer from which elements of the E-type's styling and design were derived. It was designed exclusively as a coupe since the aerodynamicist Malcolm Sayer considered that a closed-top car is easier to make light and aerodynamic - unlike previous Jaguar racers which were exclusively build as open-top cars. The production E-types used steel bodies, the LDC used lightweight aluminium.
The chassis remained steel. It used a tuned version of Jaguars 3.8 litre engine made of light alloy, with a Lucas guillotine mechanical fuel injection.
(from 272 h.p.to more than 320 h.p. depending on the model.)

How it sounds :
http://www.jag-lovers.org/brochures/video/jagcob.mpg

Some pics :
Low Drag Coupe (1962)

http://img499.imageshack.us/img499/976/a10my.th.jpg http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/6027/b4jh.th.jpg http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/631/a23rb.th.jpg http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/7065/c3dt.th.jpg

http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/6756/c1cz.th.jpg http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/2037/d6sd.th.jpg http://img500.imageshack.us/img500/6346/e9ai.th.jpg http://img416.imageshack.us/img416/8352/f0dz.th.jpg

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/6381/g1nr.th.jpg http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/711/h2ke.th.jpg http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/5282/i2lv.th.jpg http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/2789/k2ks.th.jpg

Other "Lightweighted" E types:

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2...tyle4mw.th.jpg http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/1039/l89aa.th.jpg http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/4254/l65xg.th.jpg http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/1225/l50wx.th.jpg

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/421/l28rq.th.jpg http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/4580/l34hc.th.jpg http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8784/l42oz.th.jpg http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/2507/l11jz.th.jpg

Thanks mate, the E-type is a beautifull car :love:

Great! :D I always loved the E type, and the lightweight just makes me shiver :drool:
Got other pics ?

Now that's one amazing car!
I have seen one racing before and recently saw some footage from the 2005 Goodwood Revival. Lightweight E-Type 1&2 followed by Ferrari 330LMB 3rd.
Those are really fast. Silky sound too.

A true jag. :)

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Originally Posted by everso

oh, that low drag coupe was just AMAZING. I really wish they would have made more of them.

these were only made for racing, right? not a proper production model i suppose...i dunno why!

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They were built in order to increase E-types potential in races like le Mans, and also to fight the Ferrari 250 GTO...
12 or 13 Lightweight were produced.

Yet, if you've got about 200000 pounds :!: , you can buy yourself a very nice copy of the LDC, made by LYNX , in England... :D

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200k for a replica? or is it a modified E-type? that's amazing.

if i had the money, i'd buy that thing over any of the modern supercars at the moment.

They modify normal E Types and convert them into LDC. They also use the E Type base to make XKSS and D Type replicas.

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LOL

is this guy smoking a cigarette while racing? that's so fucking rock and roll!

thanks for more pics.

Cigarette or just a stain on the photo ? :hmm: -Yet they finished 12th in this race...The 1st place was taken by a Ferrari 330 P

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Originally Posted by irrational_i

Exactly as you said: :D http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5...vant2pb.th.jpg