Car Craft 3: Jaguar E-Type (ePub)
British Motoring Masterpiece
Imprint: Pen & Sword Transport
Series: Car Craft
File Size: 22.3 MB (.epub)
ISBN: 9781526756855
Published: 9th September 2020
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The aim of this innovative series is to provide modelmakers and car enthusiasts with a new standard of primarily visual reference of both full-size cars and their scale models. Each book contains detailed technical information imparted through drawings and photographs while the meticulously researched full-colour profiles provides a complete reference for paint schemes and markings. In addition, every volume of the CarCraft series features summaries of design histories and operational careers, and reviews of available kits.
The third book in the new CarCraft series, Jaguar E-Type, frames the legend of what many call the world's most beautiful car design. Sir William Lyons and Malcolm Sayer carved automotive history with this car across its 1960s-1970s incarnations from roadster to coupé amid the fitting of Straight-Six, to V12 engines.
With its new definition of sculptural styling, performance, handling and innovative style, the E-Type or XKE series in the USA, created a car of global impact that remains a great classic of all time.
Here, experienced automotive writer, and industrial designer, Lance Cole pays tribute to the car in a detailed yet engaging commentary. New photography, the design story, and full coverage of the modelling options in synthetic materials and die cast metals, create a narrative of vital interest.
As featured on Vintage Airfix
Vintage Airfix
"This is an excellent introduction to the E-Type, is well illustrated and encapsulates much useful information, so as to give a good basic reference to the car."
IPMS magazine, Issue 3 2022
An excellent gallery of models finished at 1/8 and 1/18 scales, assembled and painted by professionals and exposed in detail from different angles. Essential Civil Modeling Series in our library.
Minituras JM
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"This volume offers the examinations and explanations of various subsystems, paired with numerous photographs, to excite the passions of Jaguar-mania."
The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society
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Stuffed with full colour images, it serves as a good initial history read on the E-type.
Classic Car Weekly, 27th January 2021
This book will be of great interest to modelers planning on doing a Jaguar model and also to car enthusiasts.
AMPS Indianapolis
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There is a history of the type, which in this case not only takes care of production cars, but also special racing versions. The differences in models is provided for you.
ModelingMadness.com
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Reviewed alongside Car Craft 2: Porsche 911
Society of Automotive Historians, 103 Winter 2020
... these books represent good value.
About Lance Cole
Lance Cole has been a motoring and aviation writer and PR for over 30 years. He is also an internationally published photographer, illustrator and designer. The author of over 20 books, he has a parallel career as a news correspondent and TV camera-journalist. But it is old cars and their design and driving that fascinates him. He has driven Saabs all over the world and contributed to Saab design when he was a young design student. Lance wrote Erik Carlsson’s obituary for the Daily Telegraph.
Lance currently lives in England but yearns for a return to the outback of Australia where old cars rule.