1972 | Jaguar E-Type V12 (2+2)

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The E Type was first launched in 1961, just 16 years after the end of the war.

So, young men (and women) who’d dreamed of flying Spitfires when they were children in 1945 were almost guaranteed to fall head over heels for a car that looked like a fighter plane from the outside and had a cockpit and dashboard that would have made any elaborately-moustachioed and Brylcreemed RAF pilot feel right at home.

Their fathers would have been bank managers or family doctors, worn tweed and brogues, smoked a briar pipe, and driven an Alvis or a Riley.

But this next generation were architects, advertising execs or designers, wore slip-ons and turtle-necks, smoked Rothmans filter tipped and, if they were very lucky, drove an E Type.

One consequence of the E Type's long process of development had been a gradual increase in weight, but a good measure of the concomitant loss of performance was restored in 1971 with the arrival of what would be the final version - the 'Series 3' V12.

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