Lifetime Achievement

Globetrotter lifts rare award

By the time the E-type was launched, Horbury was 11 and, like many a kid, constantly drawing cars in the margins of his school books. But he wasn’t into copying existing designs. He’d take an existing model and draw its successor: “I liked deciding what the important design features were, and massaging them into a future state.”

With the E-type, it was love at first sight. The car seemed to come from another world: “Even if much of it was done by an aerodynamicist [Malcolm Sayer], it was clearly influenced by somebody with a designer’s eye [Jaguar founder

Sir William Lyons]. There’s a subconscious recognition of natural shapes running right through that car, the kind of muscular tension ◊