Kevin Leaper’s Jaguar E-Type
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The Jaguar E-Type is PPCs Kevin Leaper’s longest long-term project. The mission came about when the king of impulse car buying was sitting in his house one day and randomly decided he wanted an example of Jaguar’s iconic sports coupe. Naturally he bought the first one he found because he ‘liked the colour’. This is strange because the colour was mostly rust and Kev ended up replacing or repairing every panel except the roof – the car was so rusty even the transmission tunnel was rotten.
Many years passed, Kev finished an extensive repair job on the bodywork and sent the car off to be resprayed in its original pale metallic blue.
The 3.8-litre XK twin-cam engine has been rebuilt by Kev in the meantime, and the original SU carbs have been replaced by a set of Jenvey throttlebodies with a Webcon manifold.
Kev is currently in the process of setting up his own Electronic Fuel Injection setup to bring life to the twin-cam lump, although by the time he does it we expect Kev to be long-since retired and wheelchair bound. The once shiny pale blue bodywork is now coated in a layer of dust that rivals those seen on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the staff at PPC Towers don’t expect to see the Jag on the road until at least 2020.
Follow the E-type’s lack of progress in PPC magazine every month.
