Four Breathtaking Jaguar E-Types Up Close at ‘The Quail’
Featured E-Types in video include a one-owner restored OTS Outside Bonnet Latch and other rare classics.
It’s been nearly a week since Monterey Car Week and all the happenings surrounding it have come and gone. All we have are memories of the cool Jaguars to have graced the likes of Pebble Beach and The Quail, and along the Monterey Peninsula during the Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance.
Luckily for us, there were plenty who brought their cameras and smartphones out to Monterey Car Week, capturing as much beautiful Jaguar footage as possible. One such individual, YouTuber Richard Michael Owen, found himself among greatness while strolling through The Quail, in the form of a quartet of E-Types.
“We’re going to check out some of the incredible E-Types on display,” says Owen. “Right in front of us is a beautiful red roadster that really has my heart. What’s really special about this car is it’s [a] one-owner, and he bought it new in 1961, and it hasn’t really been modified or messed-with since.”
The E-Type OTS was refurbished for the owner by noted Jaguar specialist and collector Dr. Michael Mueller. Owen says Mueller “respected the car and kept its originality.” Thus, he gave the 3.8-liter inline-six a tune up, cleaned up a few things here and there, but otherwise left it as the survivor it is.
“We’ve got another 3.8 here, a white one,” Owen says after passing by the 1962 E-Type in British Racing Green. “It’s an outside bonnet latch car, so a very, very early car. Looking really correct. Loving this.”
Unlike the red Jaguar before, the white 3.8-liter received a good scrubbing and polishing, with the block itself painted in pumpkin, the perfect backdrop for the chrome and black ceramic headers running all along the motor.
“I met Steve Sunshine, a really, really awesome guy,” said Owen of the rare car specialist. “He’s completed this car for a customer, and it’s super-super cool. I love the gunmetal paint; he said he matched it to the original, and it has a slight green to it that’s original to this car.”
The E-Type also wears its original front pair of wire wheels, alongside a rear pair of competition wire wheels, which have a different pattern compared to the ones up front. Both sets, Owen says, were originally painted, and thus, were re-painted during the restoration.
As Owen says, this E-Type is “A beautiful sight.” All E-Types are, of course; it’s in their nature, after all.
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