Jaguar: The E-Type stole the show 🎥
LEGENDARY TWO SEATER With the E-Type ZP Collection, Jaguar Classic commemorates the E-Type's triumphant racing debut by building seven matched pairs of restored E-Types, as a light gray coupe and a blue roadster.
Jaguar Classic is celebrating the E-Type's successful racing debut by building seven exclusive pairs of the E-Type ZP Collection. The new collectibles honor two of seven early models Jaguar built under the project name ZP for use in motorsport. Just weeks after their world premiere at the 1961 Motor Show (center gallery), the models scored their first victories: the ECD 400, piloted by future Formula 1 world champion Graham Hill, and the Buy 1 with Roy Salvadori at the helm.
Paul Barritt, Director Jaguar Classic: "Each pair of models tells a fascinating and often unknown story of the E-Type. The ZP Collection honors not only the cars, but also the racers who led them to victory on the race track. "Jaguar Classic's craftsmen have devoted 2,000 hours to each car."
From 2025 purely electric luxury brand
If that's not enough, the personalization team at Jaguar's special order division, SV Bespoke, will launch a limited edition F-Type customized from E-Type ZP Collection vehicles in the second half of the year. From 2025, Jaguar will open an exciting new chapter for the brand founded by Sir William Lyons in 1935 as an all-electric luxury brand.
Lighter flywheel and racing clutch
Jaguar Classic's ZP Collection models take their designation from seven E-Type examples that Jaguar had modified for racing shortly after their world premiere in 1961. Claude Baily, Jaguar's chief designer at the time, laid down the specifications for these seven Project ZP cars just one day after the premiere in Geneva.
In addition to a lighter flywheel and a racing clutch, the 3.8-liter inline-six also received a closer-ratio transmission. Shortly afterwards, the ECD 400 and Buy 1 took first and third place in the Oulton Park Trophy for GT cars.
