The World’s Fastest E-Type Jaguar
By Phil Shephard
“What’ll she do?” and “How fast will it go?” are two questions regularly heard by owners of sleek automobiles, and what this book does is answer that question definitively where E-Type Jaguars are concerned. The book details the work of a decade by a group of Australian enthusiasts, led by Allen Shephard and his son Phil, our author, who kept taking their E-Type to South Australia’s Lake Gairdner and running it flat out to “see what she would do” on Australia’s own “Great White Dyno.”
“How fast will it go?”
Author Shephard has taken a collection of stories he wrote during that decade, mixed them together and added further detail and information to produce this book. Thus is the reader taken on the journey with the team as it rubs and bends and trims and shapes its car in response to lessons learned on the salt each year, questing ever for more speed the next time out.
A wealth of incredible images illustrate the story and give the reader a real feel for the human effort involved, which is more the true story here than simply the car going fast. An excellent read. Available for AU$99.00 direct from publisher Motoring Past at www.motoringpast.com.au
