Jaguar E-Type: The Complete Story - Softcover

Wood, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861261470 ISBN 13: 9781861261472

Publisher: Crowood Press, 1998

Synopsis

Award-winning motoring historian Jonathan Wood examines the complete history of this fabulous car and looks behind the scenes at Jaguar's famous Browns Land factory and the team responsible for making the E-type a world class sports car. Wood charts the design and development of the E-type in six and twelve cylinder forms, plus its career on racetracks of the world. Contains a wealth of technical specs and comparisons, plus practical information on buying and maintenance.

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Wood has been writing and researching the history of the British motor industry all his working life. He has some 35 books to his credit, has twice won the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Montagu Trophy, and is a two-time recipient of the US-based Society of Automotive Historians’ Cugnot Award. A founder member of the staff of Classic Car magazine, he ran an MGA as his company car. Over the past 30 years he has given illustrated talks on motoring history to old car clubs and branches of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. In 2005 he presented the Institution’s Sir Henry Royce Memorial Lecture to mark the publication of his biography of Alec Issigonis, creator of the Morris Minor and Mini. Now living in Ludlow, Shropshire, he combines his automotive enthusiasms with writing and lecturing on local history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crowood Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1861261470
• ISBN 13: 9781861261472
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208