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Jaguar E-Type: British Motoring Masterpiece (Car Craft Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Lance Cole (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
The author of Classic Car Gallery “covers the Jaguar and its various incarnations with lovingly snappy prose . . . to excite the passions of Jaguar-mania” (The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society).

The third book in the new CarCraft series, Jaguar E-Type, frames the legend of what many call the world’s most beautiful car design. Sir William Lyons and Malcolm Sayer carved automotive history with this car across its 1960s-1970s incarnations from roadster to coupé amid the fitting of Straight-Six, to V12 engines.

With its new definition of sculptural styling, performance, handling and innovative style, the E-Type or XKE series in the USA, created a car of global impact that remains a great classic of all time.

Here, experienced automotive writer, and industrial designer, Lance Cole pays tribute to the car in a detailed yet engaging commentary. New photography, the design story, and full coverage of the modeling options in synthetic materials and die cast metals, create a narrative of vital interest.

The aim of the innovative CarCraft series is to provide modelmakers and car enthusiasts with a new standard of primarily visual reference of both full-size cars and their scale models. Each book contains detailed technical information imparted through drawings and photographs while the meticulously researched full-color profiles provides a complete reference for paint schemes and markings. In addition, every volume of the CarCraft series features summaries of design histories and operational careers, and reviews of available kits.

“This book will be of great interest to modelers planning on doing a Jaguar model and also to car enthusiasts.”—AMPS Indianapolis
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    Car Craft
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    June 30, 2020
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"There is a history of the type, which in this case not only takes care of production cars, but also special racing versions. The differences in models is provided for you."
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"This volume offers the examinations and explanations of various subsystems, paired with numerous photographs, to excite the passions of Jaguar-mania."
Historical Miniatures Gaming Society

"This book will be of great interest to modelers planning on doing a Jaguar model and also to car enthusiasts."
AMPS Indianapolis

About the Author

Lance Cole has been an automotive and aviation writer for over 25 years and is internationally published and syndicated. A former Sir William Lyons Scholar, and national press columnist, Lance is the author of over a dozen books and is also a trained designer, photographer and illustrator.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08DL7GJMZ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Transport (June 30, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 30, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 27.9 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
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  • John Nickerson
    1.0 out of 5 stars Not Sure Who This is For
    Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2021
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    Mr. Bacon's review should be taken to heart. I don't understand why he gave it a rating as high as 3 stars.

    After discovering the Tank Craft and Land Craft series somewhat recently, I had high hopes when I found Pen & Sword were producing a Car Craft series. Of the 4 titles available, the E-Type was the most interesting to me.

    Based on the previous book series offered by Pen and Sword, which are geared towards enthusiast and model builders, I expected it to be along a similar format, and it is, somewhat. The front section is a brief history of the vehicle and numerous photos of the actual vehicles. This is followed by a few pages of profiles, and then the modeling section. This is where my disappointment set in. The author explains in the text, that because the two major E-Type collector clubs in the UK, have no sub group of plastic modelers, but do have a sub groups of die cast collectors, the aft portion of the book, the Modeling section, is entirely Die Cast. He portrays and discusses the attributes of available die cast XKEs. There are a couple paragraphs in the text that mention plastic and resin models, and in which scales they have been produced. And a couple paragraphs that address the Airfix 1/32 scale kit which was originally produced in 1963, its longevity, and the variations it has seen.
    I don’t understand the author’s intent with this book, nor do I think the author does, either. It’s not aimed at the plastic modeler / enthusiast as the other series he has written for. He walks away from that. If it’s for the collector /enthusiast of full size E-Types, I’m pretty sure they already have histories in larger formats, with larger photos, more pages and possibly more dedicated to particular versions or uses, such as racing. And if aimed at the Die Cast collectors, why not make the whole volume about die casts and be more inclusive of all the options available.
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  • C. Matthew Bacon
    3.0 out of 5 stars An uneasy compromise between reference and models, overly focused on pre-built scale replicas
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2020
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    As a modeller for more years than I care to think, the basic concept of this Car Craft series (this is my third) is familiar: an overview of the type, some development history, photographic reference of the real thing, an anatomy of differences between types, and a guide to the available models and kits. Pioneered by the "Airfix Magazine Guides", relaunched for aircraft in the 1990s by the SAM Publications Modeller's Datafiles, and now carried on by Valiant Wings, books in this format have been go to references for modellers for 25 years. The Car Craft series attempts something similar for cars, with rather less success in my view. Trying to cover too much in one slim volume, it doesn't really work either as history, reference, or modelling guide. Jaguar's road to the E-type is pretty well-known and covered extensively elsewhere, yet the (very) potted history occupies 1/4 of the page count. The design and "detail" section offers relatively few walkaround pictures of any use to people building a model in any scale. The development section describes the differences between types in production, but doesn't illustrate them in most cases. The "profiles are nicely done, but where in an aircraft reference guides they'd be showing you different camouflage schemes, unit markings, notable airframes and unusual personal markings, in a car book, they're basically cars in different colours... and most of them don't even tell you the Jaguar paint colour or code in question, which in these days of colour matched model paint from the likes of Hiroboy is genuinely useful! And the "model showcase" is basically a brochure for Amalgam's exquisite 1/8 scale prebuilt models ("die-casts" doesn't do them justice). But at £10,000 they SHOULD be exquisite (not to mention that you can buy a fully functioning 1:1 scale Jaguar XK8 or XKR for that kind of money. Finally the "Modelling the E-Type" section is the biggest let down of all, being mostly about some of the diecasts and cast resin models you can buy, with a desultory nod doing any actual modelling yourself. The overview of kits is short, quirky, uninformative and in some cases just plain wrong. Any overview of E Type kits should include the ancient and now decrepit Airfix 1/32 model, which can still be found in new boxes, and which is best avoided. The Heller 1/24 scale plastic (not "resin") kits of open top roadsters and coupe are good, detailed, well shaped and available again in new boxes. Revell's original 1/25 offering dates back to the 1960s but was tooled in the UK and still builds up nicely. Monogram's huge 1/8 scale kit offers a much more affordable alternative to Amalgam's models if you're prepared to spend some time on it, with proper reference materials to hand. Tamiya, for all the gushing praise heaped on the company in this section, has never released any kit of the E-Type of any sort, and plastic kits of Low Drag or Lightweight E-Type are far from "featuring in numerous releases". There's an Airfix box from the 80s which has the Japanese Gunze Sangyo in it with some of the parts needed to make a passable Light Weight (hard top, Dunlop wheels instead of wires...), but that's it. Finally, even allowing for the book having been written some months ago, Revell Germany's new release of an entirely new 1/24 E Type Coupe kit to coincide with the car's 60th Anniversary has been eagerly anticipated by modellers tired of waiting for the mythical Tamiya kit for most of 2020, and surely rates a mention? All in all I find it hard to gauge who this book is intended for. As a reference for modellers who actually plan to build models, it's far short of the "one stop shop" that aircraft modellers benefit from. It's hard to imagine someone who is in the market for a £10,000 pre-built model is going to be swayed one way or the other by this book, and using another model as "reference" rather than the real thing is not for most model builders. The reference material is outshone by any number of "bookazine" issues of Octane or Classic Cars, never mind dedicated marque or model histories. I think three titles in, this series needs a pretty fundamental rethink...
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  • Robert w.
    3.0 out of 5 stars Mundane content
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2023
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    I think I was taken in by the words car craft nothing new or interesting, a bit disappointing
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