An extract from the forthcoming book on 9600 HP, E-type development prototype, press launch car and road-test car. At seven o’clock on a cold winter’s evening in 1961, a sleek Gunmetal Grey prototype of what is to be the most...
‘I believe that Murray Walker was as important to the success of motorsport in the last three decades of the previous millennium as the drivers. It was he who took the sport, the show, to the masses and made it...
By Philip Porter To remind those not familiar with the current uproar: companies and individuals have been building replicas, particularly of C-type Jaguars, since the ’70s. Several companies have stated they have received tacit approval from Jaguar whom, they claim,...
By Philip Porter As you may have heard, the C-type replica world has been thrown into disarray by recent legal proceedings in Sweden. The facts, as we understand them, are that a gentleman called Karl Magnusson spent several years building...
By Philip Porter In view of the legal turmoil currently in the Jaguar C-type world, I thought it might be amusing to dig out a few pages from my very first book, published in 1984. Very new to this writing...
By Philip Porter I am currently working on a completely new edition of a book I wrote for a massive publisher by the name of Orion, some 20 or so years ago about my E-type, with the obnoxious title, The...
by Philip Porter All images by Abigail Humphries The E-type went on sale in 1961 and remained in production until 1974, bridging two decades that would come to define the fashion industry. Both the fashion of the ’60s and ’70s...
The test weekend at the long, fast Le Mans circuit would provide better proof of how efficient Sami Klat’s hard work over the winter had been – particularly down the 3.7-mile Mulsanne straight. Another fascinating aspect of the weekend was...
Record-breaking 2020 for UK-based specialist publisher Sir Stirling Moss’s scrapbooks laid the foundations for company’s success Motoring legends and top collectors pay tribute to Porter Press Porter Press International marked its 15th anniversary in style in 2020, publishing more books...
The Rt Hon Alan Clark was a Conservative politician, Government Minister, military historian and author, and diarist but, above all, he was a car enthusiast through and through. A man of strong opinions, and not afraid to express them, he...
On 7 April 1954, XKC 051, XKC 052 and XKC 053 were sold to Ecurie Ecosse. The three cars were registered in Edinburgh the same month, becoming, respectively, LSF 420, LFS 672 and LFS 671. They were painted in the...
