This award-winning volume is the result of an unrivalled depth of research and presents a fascinating and comprehensive history of this great car. Porter describes the design, development, and launch of the E-Type, plus full details of competition cars and racing results. Contains various models and production changes with tabulated specifications. Foreword by Briggs Cunningham. Winner of the Thomas McKean Memorial Cup Award 1990.
Hardcover: 176 pages Publisher: Haynes Pubns (October 1987) Language: English
Published in November 2010 and now available from us, this really quite extraordinary book from Bernard Viart Edited By Roger Payne records every detail of this popular Jaguar sports car of the mid-1950s. The text is in English, having been translated from Bernard Viart's original French by experts. The task is accomplished in style through over 300 plates featuring some 2,000+ annotated drawings - probably no other car has ever been covered in such precise detail before. Several hundred period photographs also help tell the story of the XK 140 in this unique and most graphic way. Octane Magazine - Jan 2011 Issue BOOK OF THE MONTH "A NEW CONCEPT IN MOTORING BOOKS' says the blurb on the dust jacket, when what it really means is 'No-one but the author would have embarked on such a ludicrously time-consuming project, and if you'd suggested it to anyone else, they would have said you were mad'. But the project has been completed - and the result is fascinating. "The book starts and finishes with conventional chapters on the history of the XK 140 but it's what those chapters book-end that's significant: more than 2000 computer-drawn illustrations of XK 140 parts and how they fit together. And those illustrations aren't just reworking of the line drawings in the Jaguar parts books: every one has been made from scratch by the author Bernard Viart, by studying the original components and dismantling sections of various cars. "The plates occupy just over 300 pages of this 445-page book, and the remaining pages are filled with text and archive photos relating to every aspect of XK 140 history. The quality of reproduction is superb, and the photos are used large, with plenty of space to breathe'. "What you have. then, is a kind of aesthetically pleasing workshop manual-cum-guide to originality, albeit one that's far too handsome to risk taking into the workshop (there's also a leather-bound, signed and slip cased version for ??150).
This book consists of 23 articles, 5 of which are road tests and 3 comparison tests vs M-B 450 SLC, Lamborghini Espada III, Alfa Romeo Sprint & BMW 630 CSi & 528i. Also articles on touring and the XJ Spider. 100 large pages.
A serious, in-depth study of the growth of SS Cars Limited during the world's worst economic depression and the metamorphosis of SS into Jaguar. Special focus is given the relationship with the Standard Motor Company upon which the company's success was based, together with a detailed technical survey covering the progression of design from 1928 to 1950. Many previously unknown facts are disclosed and the work is heavily illustrated with contemporary photographs.