etypejaguar42

2007, 2008
My good friend Piet is restoring an E-type 2+2 Series 1,5. One good day he bought the body of a 2+2 Series 1 or 1,5, with the idea to cut of the front half and use the back end as a couch; for either inside the house or in the garden. He liked the idea, but others in his household didn't......
That's when the idea popped up to buy all the parts he needed for the car to build it up to a real and complete car, with only one slight novelty: being an expert in E-type restoration (the two E-types mentioned so far were not the only ones he owned in his life) he obviously liked the car. Though he thought that the E-type is, compared to nowadays modern cars, too small in width. Why not cutting the car in two after all, but lengthwise, and broaden it!?

Piet is not the kind of guy who thinks good ideas over and over again, so the car was in two halves before you knew! One cut through the roof, the back and the bulkhead, two cuts through the floor, one on either side of the transmission tunnel.

He bought an old, unrestorable 420, especially for the rear axle construction. Which is exactly the same as the E-types rear axle, though approximately 19 cm's wider. And that's exactly the amount of cm's the car has been widened now! The idea is furthermore, to put in only two seats, taken away from an XJ, thus creating a sort of Coupe, which is longer and higher than the original Coupes (because the car originally is a 2+2), and wider, too. The bigger seats of an XJ do fit in nicely!

It sounds like an easy job, but it's nothing like that. Difficult situations will occur when the engine has to be put in (the cages are 19 cm's farther apart), when there has to come a new front and back window, and more and more. I will keep you informed!

The dashboard has been widened already, which can hardly be seen because every one of the three parts has been widened by approximately six cm's. What a nice job!