Jaguar E-Type: A Celebration of the World's Favourite '60s Icon - Rilegato

Thorley, Nigel

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ISBN 10: 1787110257 ISBN 13: 9781787110250

Casa editrice: Veloce, 2017

Riassunto

Four decades after its launch, the Jaguar E-type is still at the top of most car enthusiasts’ Christmas lists. An enduring example of design and engineering excellence, it is instantly recognizable the world over.

Jaguar E-Type celebrates this icon of the 1960s as Nigel Thorley describes the year by year history and development of this beautiful car in full illustration with anecdotes and curiosities along the way. Coupled with excellent writing, this adds up to a feast of nostalgia that will delight all admirers of this most sinuous of cars.

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Recensione:

Here's another of Veloce's splendid Classic Reprint Series rejuvenating an out-of-print Haynes publication that will find a ready audience today. Sub-titled 'A celebration of the world's favourite '60s icon' this is, for once, no journalistic hyperbole. Veloce has pulled out all the stops to make the production worthy of the title. This is in hardback format, runs to 184 pages and contains 264 photos and illustrations which lavishly support an informative text. Author and enthusiast Thorley gives an honest appraisal of the E-Type's development, the original design's good points as well as its bad, the improvements and all the important changes along the way. There has never been a car quite like the Jaguar E-Type, and there may never be again. Even if you cannot afford one just now you can indulge your fantasies with this excellent book. --Big End

This book provides an insight into the background, development and features of Jaguar's iconic E-type in both historic and modern day terms, while it is beautifully illustrated with superb archive images and modern studio photography. A great addition to this series, and to your bookshelf. --Practical Classics

Thorley guides us through all coupé and roadster iterations of the three E-type series produced between 1961 and 1974 (and their 3.8-, 4.2 and 5.3-litre engines), along with the heartbreaking mods imposed by US health and safety regs that gradually muddied the car's purity of line and choked its top-end power. This [is a] lavishly illustrated and superior coffee-table book. To tempt those clutching an earlier edition this latest update tacks on a raft of extras, both tribal and fan friendly. Thorley strikes an appealing balance for anoraks and poseurs alike. --Classic Motoring Review

L'autore:

Nigel Thorley is very well known in the Jaguar fraternity, being one of the founding members of the world’s largest Jaguar club, the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club. He was brought up with these cars as his father and elder brother always owned them, and he bought his first Jaguar for the princely sum of just £50 at the age of 18. Since then he has owned more than 70 Jaguars and Daimlers, including 16 Mk2s and a couple of S-types, so he knows these cars intimately, and he still runs a Jaguar as everyday transport. He has written more than 20 books, mainly on the Jaguar marque, and continues to edit the monthly 140-page Jaguar Enthusiast magazine for the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club, of which he is a director.In addition to Jaguars his other passions are Triumph cars, photography, Rotary and more recently his grandchildren. Nigel lives in Yorkshire with his wife Pauline.

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• Editore: Veloce
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1787110257
• ISBN 13: 9781787110250
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 184