Even a "new" one, I wouldn't want an E type. My favourite Jag was the XK 150S. Same engine, brakes, gearbox & diff as the E type, in a package more to my vintage. A little Jaguar story including Bathurst. My first race at Bathurst was the 3 lap sports car dash, early in the 1963 program. The Morgan +4 was still pretty basic, stock suspension, brakes, wheels & Pirelli road tyres, but no windscreen to create that huge drag. The engine work had started, but she had only 79 BHP at 4600RPM at the wheels, probably about 125BHP at the clutch at 5500 RPM.. Interestingly those Morgans had the same gearbox & diff as the XK Jags, a bit over kill in a 1500 hundred weight, [750KG] car. In that race was a bloke named Phips or Philps I think, was in an XK 120 Jag, with a C type Motor, with D type cams, according to reports, but on drum brakes. Like me I expect he was on road wheels & tyres. We had a 3 lap dice, with me passing him across the top of the mountain, & him passing me down Conrod, but a little later each lap. I was getting 124 MPH, with him over 145. He was braking at about 240 yards, where I could go into about 165. On the last lap I got to his braking mark, & figured I had him, but was yet to learn about the dreaded "red mist". His must have descended, as he just kept coming until he was along side me, on the inside. The mist must have lifted about then, & he realised he had no chance of making Murrays corner. He gave me a big old fashioned right hand turn signal, right arm held out at right angles to the car, letting me know he was going down the escape road. I slowed almost to a stop to let him get through inside me, then turned hard left, & puttered in second slowly up to the finish line. As I did so, in the quiet of the low revs, I heard the announcer raving about "this being what happens when 2 drivers start driving each others cars, instead of their own". Photo of the Mog as she would have been at Bathurst.