Jaguar pays tribute to the E-type
60 Collection honours ‘9600 HP’ and ‘77 RW’
Jaguar Classic has confirmed details of its E-type 60 Collection cars, based on 12 expertly restored and uprated 3.8-litre E-types built to celebrate 60 years of the model.
The cars are recreations of the first E-types sent to the Geneva Motor Show in 1961 – ‘9600 HP,’ a fixed-head coupé, and ’77 RW’, a roadster, driven by Bob Berry and Norman Dewis. They were the first cars seen by the public and press.
Sold as a pair (one E-type 60 Edition coupé, one E-type 60 Edition roadster), the cars are finished in exclusive ‘Flat Out Grey’ and ‘Drop Everything Green’ paint colours respectively; Jaguar says that these shades, based on ‘9600 HP’ and ’77 RW’’s original colours, will only be used on their replicas.
The replicas will have upgrades including a five-speed manual gearbox, improved cooling and Jaguar Classic satellite navigation, with Bluetooth.
Their centre consoles will also have stainless steel engravings by Johnny ‘King Nerd’ Dowell, showing the routes that Berry and Dewis took to Geneva.
Johnny Dowell, said: ‘It was a fantastic opportunity to design and engrave the stories of two epic drives by two Jaguar legends in these iconic and special cars. Everywhere these E-types go, the memory of Bob Berry and Norman Dewis will go with them.’
Next summer, the owners of the 12 replicas will take part in a Coventry-toGeneva road trip, recreating the run to the 1961 Motor Show; a similar run scheduled for this year with the first and last E-types built was cancelled owing to coronavirus.
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