Officially licensed with the ACO, the organisers of the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race, this sumptuous book is the third title in a decade-by-decade series that will eventually build up into an eight-volume set covering every race since 1923. Each year is exhaustively covered in vivid photographs, a detailed and insightful commentary, full results data and a glorious rendering of the official race poster. Compiled by an acknowledged authority of this legendary race, this series of books will be treasured by all enthusiasts of sports car racing.
Ok, so it has a Jaguar on the front cover(!), but there are some fabulous period shots of Ferrari, Aston Martin and Maserati along with those making rare or one time outings. With three of these volumes published so far, this is turning into a worthwhile history of the great Le Mans 24-hour race.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Jaguar E-type, here is an all-new updated edition of a classic book that was first published in 1989 and remained in print for 20 years. The E-type was, and still is, a uniquely charismatic and important British sports car – and this remarkable book provides the ultimate tribute to it. With lots of new information and illustrations, and presented with handsome new design in a larger format, this book is a ‘must-have’ for all E-type enthusiasts.
I guess we all know that this is the 50th birthday for the E-Type but we promise that we’ll revue something other than a Jaguar book next!
This must be a contender for our Book of the Year – Philip Porter has produced a seminal work to detail the Lightweight E-Type Jaguars. This is the full story of the competition E-types that took on the might of Ferrari and often beat the legendary GTOs and the AC Cobras. With copious unseen period photographs and original Jaguar reports, the glory years of the `60s are told as never before, including the build up to the Lightweights and the evolution of the ultimate Low Drag versions. Includes the story of the Lindner/Nocker car recently restored by CKL and the Low-Drag car, CUT 7.
Officially commissioned by the PR Department of Jaguar Cars, this new book celebrates the fifty year history of the E-Type Jaguar with a mix of specially commissioned pictures and reprinted brochures and marketing material from Jaguar`s archives. An essential piece of history if you are a fan or owner of the car that Enzo Ferrari described as `the most beautiful car ever made`