Jag Towing Race E-Type

[indigorallye]

At Oulton Park at testing on Friday I saw an old Jag towing an E Type.
It looked pretty cool to me.
Does anyone know anything about it, it's history, or have pics?

[andye30m3]

Red light weight E-type?

Could well have been

Originally built do compete in the peking-paris rally

[indigorallye]

That's the one.
Anyone got any pics with the E-Type too?
What a set-up!

[andye30m3]

The same guy owns and races a number of classic Jaguars including XKD505, genuine C-type, XK120, Mark 1 and a Mark 2

Very lucky to own such a collection and always good to see them being used as intended rather than stuck gathering dust in a museum somewhere.

[Chunkychucky]

^^^^^ The one pictured above, I think belongs to Nigel Webb, Jaguar collector and Mike Hawthorn fanatic. That Mark 7 is very smart, particularly with the "MK VII" number plate. I've seen it towing his ally-bodied XK120 before, so it could well have been that car