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Jaguar E-type Celebration WE MARK 60 YEARS SINCE THE UNVEILING O F T H E E -T Y P E ; T H E S TA RT O F T H E C A R’ S T R A N S F O R M AT I O N F R O M AU T O M O T I V E I C O N T O C U LT U R A L P H E N O M E N O N
In 2021, the Jaguar E-type celebrates its 60th anniversary, and to mark this milestone some of the finest examples ever made are gracing the lawns of the Honourable Artillery Company HQ. Among those on display is ‘1 VHP’, the only surviving righthand-drive, no. 1 chassis car left in the world,
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and ‘77 RW’, the first production E-type Roadster ever made, which was famously driven out to the 1961 Geneva launch overnight by Jaguar’s then-test engineer Norman Dewis. Two of the most famous racing E-types will also be on show: the 1961 ‘CUT 7’, and the 1963 Lindner Nocker
Low-Drag car, built for German Jaguar importer Peter Lindner. Sadly, the car claimed Peter’s life in 1974, and it spent many years impounded in France. In 2007 it was subject to one of the most complex restorations in history. Rounding out the history of the E-type, ‘HDU 555N’ is the last example ever produced.
1961 E-type 3.8-litre FHC ‘Ex-Protheroe’ ‘CUT 7’ has a driver pedigree including many of the greats of motor sport history. One of three E-types owned by Dick Protheroe, it was campaigned extensively throughout 1962, not just in club events but also at international level, in the hands of the likes of Innes Ireland, Graham Hill, Roy Salvadori
and David Piper. With victories at Mallory Park, Silverstone, Crystal Palace and Snetterton, Protheroe set his eyes on securing the Autosport National Championship for Production Sports Cars – and he won the Over3.0-litre class, along with the 1962 Goodwood Tourist Trophy.
