Topic: Puzzle #329 - Solved! Jaguar E2A

[Otto Puzzell]

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[billtorrance9999]

Jaguar XK-E from Le Mans 1960.  Same as later E-Type in styling but about 85% size.

[Otto Puzzell]

Well, it's an E-type, but technically, not an XK-E. This car, referenced internally at Jaguar as an 'E2A', was first run by Jaguar test driver Norman Dewis on Monday February, 29th 1960. This was an evolution of the Jaguar E1A, built in 1957. The E1A, to my eyes, looks even  more like the production E-Type.


Jaguar E1A:

[Allan L]

E2A was the car raced by Briggs Cunningham and known unofficially as the E type until the real E type (which you in the US call the XK-E, a name we in its country of origin never knew it by) came along.
Confusingly the registration VKV 752 was used both by E1A and E2A.