THE LIGHTWEIGHT E-TYPE In 2014, Jaguar picked up where they left off in the 1960s and produced an additional six examples of the revered Lightweight E-Types.

However, that number did not include this E-Type, “Car 0,” the first such Lightweight built for promotional use by Jaguar Classic.

Not “replicas,” these were brand-new cars built as the originals had been, using the original engineering blueprints and designs as well as much of the original materials and methods.

Further, the cars were given chassis numbers not utilized in the original production—thus “completing” the Lightweight E-Type model run.

Needless to say, the project drew a great deal of attention, and the Jaguars were eagerly snapped up by private collectors.

The new Lightweight E-Type (LWE) was based on a unibody built by JLR of Whitley, England, and fully wrapped in aluminum panels, which reduces its weight by 250 pounds over the production steel bodies; the shell was reproduced using detailed scans of an original...