Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari Digest, Vol 173, Issue 19

[George (ygpz4re]

Agree, 9600HP and 77RW were both hard-working demonstrators and are still in the possession of Jaguar (or Jaguar-Daimler Heritage Trust??).

gp

---

From: BRITT ROTHMAN <britt2asa [at] aol.com>

Those Jags were probably preproduction cars that were for show only. The majority of the first 4 months of E Type production went to the USA to raise hard cash for the British economy. At that time it was ?export or die? due to currency requirements after the war. British consumers didn?t have the opportunity to buy an e type for quite a long time.

As a note: the E type was shown at the Geneva Show in March  ?61 for the first time and then showed up in S Cali shortly afterwards.

Anyway I am certain those first cars would have been rushed out as prototypes, Jag would have built 30 to 40 cars to finalise the production process. They wouldn?t be sold but would be good enough for test drives and display.

BR in Stockholm.