Ian Fey
- Aug 22, 2022
- 4 min
To Northumberland and Beyond! The post- (almost) Covid Summer of 2021
Travels in Northumberland following the lifting of lockdown, Summer 2021
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Welcome to the Jaguar E-type Club
The only international club dedicated purely to Jaguar E-types
The Club event season started with a swing with our CBR Technical Masterclass and Annual Spring Meeting taking place over the weekend of 22-23 April. Full reports and photos will be coming soon, but both events were well attended and enjoyed, and dates for 2024 have already been set. So catch these happy smiling faces next spring (l-r: SNG Barratt Head Technician, Pete Stant and CBR’s Andy Waters).
And we are filling up the calendar with new events from both Backwater Tours and Classics on the Road – with...
E-type Club Weekend
Now joining our guest lineup will be Neville Swales of Building the Legend, who will be bringing one of his fabulous Jaguar re-creations.
Latest Magazine
Travel stories this month include Andalucia and a very snowy Tasmanian trip; more from our new E-type owner; a look at Series II rear light conversion; behind-the-scenes at JDHT and their Heritage certificate process and much, much more...
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Why not pay a visit the E-type Forum?
You'll find an active community of E-type owners and enthusiasts discussing technical issues, asking for advice, sharing news about events and activities and chatting about all things E-type.
The Forum is kindly hosted by E-Type UK (in conjunction with the Jaguar E-type Club).
Jaguar Heritage Certificates
Since 1931, details of every SS and Jaguar vehicle that has been produced have been recorded.
Initially in a bound ledger which was completed as a vehicle made its way down the production line; from the 1980s a computerised system to recording the same details. Learn more below.
Treasures of Andalucia tour
A Club member describes a 10-day tour in October 2022 with Classics on the Road
Despite having been regular tourers in our E-type since 2007, a combination of the COVID pandemic and other personal circumstances meant that, come the spring of 2022, it had been more than four years since we last ventured outside the UK with the car. We decided it was time to prove to ourselves that we still had what it takes to tour. Positive previous experience of touring in Spain with Classics on the Road, together with a love of all things Spanish, meant that the Treasures of Andalucia tour was the obvious candidate for our return to driving the E-type abroad.
By way of whetting appetites for this account of the trip, there are three big questions to which readers will obviously expect answers:
• In which city did one couple try to check in to the wrong hotel?
• What inspired three couples to enter an old people’s home?
• Which comic look-a-like was in great demand for photos?
Read on for answers to these questions and other revelations!
One of the joys of living where we do, in East Kent, is that the Continent is just a short step away – we are within 20 minutes of both the Eurotunnel and the...
E-type Club Event Image Galleries
Since its founding in 2004, the E-type Club has gone from strength to strength and we now have members in over 50 countries...
What makes the E-type Club different is that we focus 100% on E-types.
There are several excellent Jaguar clubs but they have to cover a vast range of cars and interests from pre-war through to the current range. Naturally, they cannot concentrate on just one model...
1962 competition E-type CUT 8 for sale through Fiskens
A significant historic competition E-type, CUT 8 will forever be associated with Dick Protheroe, who campaigned a series of CUT-plated modified Jaguars to great effect in period. Originally a dark green FHC race-prepared for BRDC life member Ed Nelson in 1965–66, chassis 860953 was registered 105 ENX and raced in ’66 at events as far afield as the Nürburgring and Mugello. The car was then sold to Rosemary Protheroe and designated CUT 8 as a tribute to her late husband, Dick Protheroe, who tragically paid the ultimate price aboard a Ferrari 330P at Oulton Park in 1966.
A racer herself, Rosemary met Dick at a race meeting and upon his passing became Managing Director of his Leicestershire garage. She resolved to go racing again, building CUT 8 with her late husband’s team. Resprayed in the Protheroe livery, 860953 gained a...
I am delighted to announce we have another Patron. Joining the great Ian Callum, we now also have world-famous motoring personality Richard Hammond.
Richard is a long-term E-type owner and enthusiast. In a recent email, he wrote: ‘I’ve added another E-type (’62 Coupe awaiting restoration to its original Dark Opalescent Blue) to my little collection since we last met...’
Richard’s restoration company, The Smallest Cog, is based in Hereford, which is only 40 minutes from Club HQ and he lives nearby. When we last corresponded, in late April, he was just off to the States for a fortnight’s filming for The Grand Tour, but said he would come over and visit us...
Philip Porter
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Why buy an E-type?
Apart from the emotional aspects, there are a number of hard-headed reasons to buy an E-type.
Reliability – there is no point in owning a classic car unless you can use and enjoy it, and do so with confidence that it is not going to let you down. All the E-type’s mechanical components were used in the higher volume saloon...
XKE Data
XKEDATA.com is a project to help people find information about a particular car or series of cars by serial number.
This site welcomes participation from anyone interested in these cars. We aren't experts, but there is also no exclusivity to the data hosted here. You don't have to be a member to list a car.
If a site user sees a car with such-and-such car number in a classified ad that's what will be entered. It's all that's known at that point. But over time, hopefully more information will be added, corrections will be made, and at the end of the day we'll know a bit more about a particular car than we would otherwise.
Porter Press International
Porter Press publishes the finest selection of top quality Jaguar books in the world, bar none and these are just some of the titles in their portfolio...
Check with Club HQ for your member discount code (valid on most Porter Press titles).
 First published in 2000 and extensively expanded and updated for this new edition, it includes interviews with many of the central characters. From development... |  Restorers’ and enthusiasts’ guide to 3.8, 4.2 and V12. This beautifully produced book contains a wealth of accurate information and detailed photographs, gleaned from... |  This book tells the story of the 1963 Lightweight Jaguar E-type that was famously given an aerodynamic makeover by Dr Samir Klat of Imperial College, London, for the 1964 season... |
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 An expert could not have written this book. Experts start with knowledge and experience, and so inevitably make assumptions and gloss over important details. Chris Rooke had played with classic cars before... |  This book tells the story of the 1963 Lightweight Jaguar E-type that was famously given an aerodynamic makeover by Dr Samir Klat of Imperial College, London, for the 1964 season... |  Chassis 875027, the focus of this story, was the first E-type campaigned by American racing entrepreneur Briggs Cunningham’s famous team and its performances helped persuade Jaguar to use the... |
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