The Extraordinary Jaguar E-Type V12 Special of Nick Soprano

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We have discussed Nick Soprano before. Nick is a well-regarded collector-car broker, former racecar driver and avid collector of very high profile automobiles. Nick is one of those thoroughbred enthusiasts that eventually had to build his very own car, the SENSUALE.
Having driven and raced such an incredible amount of iconic motorsport history, Nick’s mind constantly thinks about design and engineering solutions, while he is fully enthused by a passion for timeless design of the golden automotive era of the 1950s and 60s.
A big majority of enthusiasts in the Vintage-Jaguar world considers the very first E-Type, the Series I, as the most beautiful of them all. Often, in the lifecycle of a particular sportscar model, as technology improves, new technology elements are added to the original design and cars subsequently tend to become bigger in dimensions and heavier in weight. At times they grow wheel arches to accommodate wider tiers, need extra grills for more cooling or added spoilers for less drag and more downforce.
For Jaguar the transition was particularly dramatic with the advent of the (now) famous V12 engine, replacing the legendary straight-six that had brought Jaguar so much fame in racing with the C- and D-Type Jaguars, from which the E-Type derived.
The V12 was a pretty big engine, no way around it. Arriving in the E-Type in the early 1970s it made the car a few inches longer and wider. The greater power changed aforementioned wheel arches, increased the radiator grill but – worst of all – it basically destroyed the most beautiful fared-in headlight design.
Naturally, Nick decided to amalgamate the various design elements into one car. In a wider sense of the word, he restomoded a 1974 XKE V12 Roaster but he did it with style – and a ton of it.
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