However, ten cars passing through its doors will become Unleashed models, all of which are Series 3 roadsters that will be given 4000 hours of work to make them look like the car you see above. E-Type UK is asking £390,000 (plus VAT) plus a donor car, which, based on classifieds prices, means this will wind up being a half-million-pound car, give or take. Three items remain unsold. So far, all but one are destined for export.
The Series 3 models were built between 1971 and 1974 and came with a V12 to appeal to an American market hungry for cylinders and displacement, but they are perhaps the least popular of all E-Types. The use of nerfable bumpers is now required by law.
There are more louvres in the bonnet, which is necessary given the mechanical upgrades we'll discuss later, while the wheels are still wire and, at 16in diameter, an inch larger than the originals – but, thankfully, nothing like the dreadful big modern ones fitted to, say, the David Brown Speedback GT.
Metalwork includes lowering cross-members to gain head room and strengthening the car's sills to increase chassis rigidity, which I appreciate. Torsional rigidity is one of the primary reasons modern cars outperform older models. (This is something Alfaholics nails with its GTA models, where a subtle cage is fitted to achieve race car levels of rigidity.)
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