Original Jaguar E Type: Restorer’s Guide to 3.8, 4.2 and V12 (Original): Restorer’s Guide to 3.8, 4.2 and V12 (Original)

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Product Details

• Author: Philip Porter
• Hardcover: 960 pages
• Publisher: MBI Publishing (1st May 1990)
• ISBN-10: 1870979125
• ISBN-13: 9781870979122
• Sales Rank: 163283

Synopsis

A guide to the Jaguar E Type car. It contains details of production changes and modifications, standard and optional equipment, and colour schemes. This book also describes how the car originally looked, based on factory records and the advice of experts and restorers.

Customer Reviews

The E-type dissected

Reviewed: Thursday, Feb 3rd 2005

Philip Porter is an acknowledged expert on the E-type but his words in this modest volume (compared with other “Original” series books) are overshadowed by the brilliant pictures. The photos really are exceptional and the book is almost worth the price for these alone. Porter takes us through each version of the E-type, from the no compromise 3.8 to its last incarnation as a flabby V12 for the US market. Even so, almost any E-type would be a car to treasure. Detailed changes are listed and many of them illustrated. While it’s essential reading for those who admire the E-type, or own one, somehow this volume doesn’t quite match those on the MGs and VW Beetle, which go into even more detail and are rather better organised.

An interesting volume and originality guide on the Jaguar E

Reviewed: Tuesday, May 8th 2001

Phillip Porter present us with a bulky volume on one of the most exciting cars of all time. The book is very comprehensive although it can be hard work to read sometimes. In any case it is a very interesting volume for initiated E-type enthusiasts looking for a guide to originality. Further editions may benefit for added pictures on the various details which constitute the have and have nots of the car.