Jaguar Classic to mark 60 years of E-type with tribute edition

By CARSIFU | 14 August 2020


LONDON: Jaguar Classic will create six matched pairs of E-type cars to celebrate the iconic sports car’s 60th anniversary in 2021: the E-type 60 Collection.

Each pair of E-type 60 Edition cars pay tribute to two of the oldest and most famous Jaguar E-type sports cars: ‘9600 HP’ and ‘77 RW’, which played pivotal roles in the unveiling of the car at its world debut in Geneva, Switzerland in March 1961.

Every E-type 60 Edition built by the team at the Jaguar Classic Works facility in Warwickshire would be an existing 1960s 3.8-litre E-type fully-restored to exclusive 60th anniversary tribute specification.

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Each E-type 60 Collection pair will include one Flat Out Grey ‘9600 HP’ coupe and one Drop Everything Green ‘77 RW’ roadster, with unique paintwork. Each E-type 60 Edition will feature a number of 60th anniversary commemorative design details created in conjunction with Jaguar design director Julian Thomson.

E-type sports cars were once owned by celebrities including Steve McQueen, Brigitte Bardot, Frank Sinatra, George Harrison, Tony Curtis and Britt Ekland. And, thanks to the beauty of its sculptural forms, its functionality and its impact on design, an E-type became only the third car to join The Museum of Modern Art’s design collection in 1996.

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