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Ultimate E-type - The Competition Cars
by Philip Porter

For Immediate Release
15 April, 2011

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Key Points:

• Book includes original metal from Lindner Lightweight E
• Limited to 25 copies
• £1000 per copy to charity

Ultimate E-type – The Collectors' Edition

Is this a first? The Collectors' Edition of a new motoring book will include a numbered piece of original metal from one of the 11 remaining Lightweights Es.

Just 25 very special copies of Philip Porter's latest blockbuster, Ultimate E-type – The Competition Cars, will be hand-bound in finest Moroccan goatskin by top binder and book restorer, Trevor Lloyd. Complete with craftsman-made box, they are priced at £2200 each. Of that, £1000 will go to the Henry Surtees Foundation.

This edition has been created in conjunction with Peter Neumark, the owner of the famous ex-Le Mans Lindner Low Drag Lightweight and top classic car specialists, Classic Motor Cars, who have carried out an amazing 7000-hour rebuild of the car that crashed in 1964. Each book will have its own unique number stamped out on original Lightweight E-type metal in the same format as an E-type body tag.

This car was fitted with the most powerful XK engine Jaguar ever built and modified by the Jaguar Competition Dept. with Malcolm Sayer's very beautiful Low Drag bodywork. Today, it is worth several million pounds.

Published to coincide with the 50^thanniversary of the iconic Jaguar sports car, Ultimate E-type – The Competition Cars, is a heavyweight book on the Lightweight Es and early racers. It has taken a year to write and over 200 people have been interviewed. Packed with illustrations from wonderful period photos to stunning studio shots, it is truly the ultimate book on the ultimate E-types. The standard edition costs £95 from the publishers – www.porterpress.co.uk– and there is a Deluxe first edition of 150 at £450.

Notes to Editors:

Ultimate E-type– The Competiton Cars,Hardback, 528 pages, 11.22" x 10.22" (285 x 260mm). Over 700 colour & mono illustrations. The Lightweights Es are the ultimate E-types, and this is the ultimate book on these charismatic cars. This is the full story of the competition E-types that took on the might of Ferrari and often beat the legendary GTOs and the AC Cobras. With copious unseen period photographs and original Jaguar reports, the glory years of the '60s are told as never before, including the build up to the Lightweights and the evolution of the Low Drag versions. Part 2 includes a chapter on each of the 14 competition E-types. Part 3 – Evaluation – some big names assess the Lightweights and owner Adrian Newey has a few revelations.

Philip Porterhas been writing motoring books for 25 years and has twice won the Montagu Trophy for best motoring book of the year, the first time being for Jaguar E-type – The Definitive History. He owns 9600 HP, the oldest E-type in existence and the original launch/press car, and 848 CRY, a red Roadster that was raced in 1961 and was later in the film, The Italian Job.

Porter Press International was formed by in 2005 and is famous for its Scrapbooks, having published four with Stirling Moss and one with Murray Walker.

Classic Motor Cars:
Founded in 1993, Classic Motor Cars has built an enviable reputation as pre-eminent Jaguar engineers in the classic Jaguar world. While 90% of their work is on the 1950s XK sports cars, the 1960s and 1970s E-types and 1960s Mark 2 saloons, their experience embraces all Jaguars including examples of Swallow, SS100, C-type, D-type, Lightweight E-type and period specials. Based in superb workshops in the UK Midlands, the key personnel have been with the company for many years. While the team have restored many famous cars, most of their work covers mechanical rectification, upgrading and maintenance for customers around the world. CMC also have a small, hand-picked selection of cars for sale. Customers benefit from the company's long-term experience and specialisation.

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