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Published on 22 August 2014

Joe's nomination of the Jaguar E Type Lightweight prompts me to recall when in 1980 at the age of 21 years I purchased my E Type V12 at the same time that Peter Briggs purchased Bob Jane's car ... I paid $14K for mine and if I recall correctly, Briggs coughed up $80K or thereabouts for the rare alloy ex-racing machine ... by way of comparison, back then, $14K could buy you a brand new VB/VC Commodore SL/E sedan. Anyway, it was a few years later that Briggs also acquired a Jaguar D Type (actual car pictured below in pale blue) ... it was something I wasn't aware of until one day when driving my E into Perth I saw an odd looking similarity parked near the boat ramp at a popular ski section of the Canning River ... I drove back to discover that the car was indeed odd in that it was a D Type, not something I would ever expect to see in common public road circumstances ... which brings me to question whether 'the other' Jaguar should be considered in Joe's topic thread, and that is the almost equally rare Jaguar XK SS, essentially the definitive road car version of the D Type ... it's sort of the antithesis of Mark's nomination of the A9X, being a Holden road car produced for racing purposes, whereas the SS is a Jaguar race car produced for the road.