These These early windscreen cappings were only fitted up to chassis number 850087 right hand drive roadster, and 875309 left hand drive roadster.

Cast in stainless steel to give additional strength and longevity, polished copper plated, nickel plated and chromed they look identical to the original part and are a direct fit to the vehicle, no need to modify and or alter.

Only offered as a pair at £190.00 plus VAT.

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Classic Motor Cars started off the E-type 50th Anniversary celebrations at London's Design Museum on February 8th.

Norman Dewis, who this year celebrates his 91st birthday & John Surtees, only man to win World Championships on two wheels and four, unveiled a stunning 1961 e-type which has recently been restored.

“We thought that it would be fitting if the first event to celebrate the anniversary could be held at London’s Design Museum,” said Peter Neumark, the Chairman of CMC. “The car has become a design classic that has endured over the years and we were delighted when the museum agreed.” He added: “It would have been impossible to celebrate this famous car without having Norman Dewis, its legendary test driver on hand to talk about the car and F1 legend John Surtees who was one of the E- type’s first customers.

The latest seminar for the Jaguar E-type club & XK club was held at CMC Ltd on Saturday 26th February.

Members spent the day learning various tricks of the trade from classic car restorers, Classic Motor Cars.

CMC had individual expert technicians on hand to cover aspects such as body work, trim, electrics, general servicing and maintenance.

2011 will be a very busy year, we are being bombarded with offers to attend events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the E Type.

We are just going to start road testing the Coombs 3.8 MK2 Saloon as long as the snow stays away and the Lindner Nocker low drag is coming together and should be back on the road come April.

One of our clients has just completed this Rallye Med in a Jaguar MK2 Saloon supplied and prepared by us here at CMC.

The Rallye Med covered some 18,000 kilometres and took nine weeks to complete starting in England travelling to Spain, down through Morocco and then back up through Spain, France and Italy. Across the Mediterranean Sea and into Tunisia, through Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Turkey. Back into Europe through Greece, Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and finally back through France and onto England.

Apart from servicing along the way the only problems encountered were a broken return spring on the handbrake a Dunlop brake cylinder exploded and one head light main beam failed. Photograph showing the car as it returned to us here in Bridgnorth on Friday 12th November... More

If you have already browsed the CMC website, you may have come across our Restoration pages, where we have a number of historically significant Jaguars. We plan to give you regular updates on the progress of our current restorations which include:

Lindner Nocker Low Drag Coupe
Having got the body back from the paint shop we are now building the car, slowly it is starting to take shape.

CMCs reputation for world-class Jaguar restoration work has yet again been enhanced by one of the most challenging projects ever undertaken on any car. Over five and a half thousand skilled man hours have gone into the restoration of what is regarded by most aficionados as the most beautiful E-Type ever produced, the Lindner / Nocker Lightweight

We are aiming to have the car completed for March/April 2011... More

Daily Mail Competition E-type
When the E-type was only a couple of months old and it was absolutely impossible to get one in the UK, the Daily Mail newspaper ran a competition to win one. In fact, they had two as prizes. One of those cars is currently in our workshops undergoing a full restoration. Click here to view the restoration progress on this car.... More


Lofty England’s E-type, Chassis Number 4
'Lofty' England was the legendary Jaguar Team Manager who masterminded Jaguar's five Le Mans wins in the '50s, before becoming Managing Director of Jaguar Cars. He hand-picked the first owners of the very early E-types and allocated himself the fourth right hand drive roadster. Classic Motor Cars are carrying out a total renovation of this famous car, including rebuilding the XK engine, restoring the bodywork, painting, assembling and re-trimming the car.... More

Coombs, MK2
The original Coombs MK2 Saloon is nearly ready to go on to its wheels. Most of the mechnics have been completed. We are just fitting the rear bumper before we build the doors and then it is down to trimming. We should be road testing it by mid November.

The Coombs MK2 been in the same ownership since the mid 1970s and stored in a barn. The owner's intention was to one day restore and use the car as everyday transport. Unfortunately, with the passing years, the inclination to spend hundreds of hours underneath a classic Jaguar lost its appeal and the car was recently put on the market. Fortunately for us one of our clients purchased the car and has given us the task of carrying out a complete restoration to bring the vehicle back to as-new condition. This car is now nearly complete .... More

We have four new E-type bonnets which have just arrived from Jaguar all destined for E-type rebuilds and these are all going to be going through the CMC process.

We now have original Triplex/Pilkington windscreens for all E-type Roadsters (Series 1,2 & 3).

The Series 1 and 2 screens are made to a new pattern taken from a very early windscreen and the fit is excellent no need to space up the chrome end caps when fitting. Only available in clear at £249.00 plus VAT.

Series 3 screens are available in both clear and sundym, clear at £306.00 plus VAT, Sundym (tinted) at £333.00 plus VAT.


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Classic Motor Cars are now able to supply stylish, leather upholstered reclining sport seats. This is a brand new product which is currently only available for Jaguar E-type Series 1, 2 & 3. The seat can be trimmed with owner's choice of colour and, once complete, can be fitted in the car by CMC, if required.

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Classic Motor Cars are currently working on two new E-type Roadster rebuilds.

The two roadster projects seen in this photograph have both been stripped down to their bare shells.  Through shot-blasting, the shells were taken back to clean steel and the corrosion removed.

As with all our other rebuilds, both shells will next be treated with an epoxy resin primer, which will help to protect the metal against rust. The process of replacing any corroded areas then begins using brand new handmade panels produced to the highest standards from the same gauge steel as originally used by Jaguar.

Repaired areas on both E-types will be lead-loaded and the shells prepared for painting. The engine bay and underside of the shells will be treated with seam sealer and undercoated with stone chip which is a modern development of the traditional underseal and provides better protection. The remaining areas of the shells will then be treated with a two-pack acrylic primer and sprayed to concours standard and polished by hand.

Painting the body shell is an art in itself. Each coat is sprayed by hand in the chosen colour to ensure a perfectly smooth finish.

We will keep you posted on these two rebuild projects.

The already impressive Classic Motor Cars set-up is now even more so. By taking on two more adjacent units, CMC have doubled their floor space, which has allowed considerable reorganisation. The new area is being used for building up cars after paint. So, when a restoration commences, the bodywork (the 'dirty' work) continues to be done in one dedicated shop, while all the other parts are now stored in racking on a mezzanine floor above the new shop. After painting, the shell is taken into the new area, the parts are moved to racking alongside the shell and the fitting up takes place in a clean, spacious, ideal environment. Partitioned off from this area is a new, larger trim shop (see details below).

 

Additional to this new unit is the existing shop for all servicing and mechanical work (where fitting-up used to take place), the machine shop, engine shop and another new unit for car storage.

To view a video of the new facilties click here.

CMC recently expanded their facilities and now have a larger trim facility doubling the manufacturing area to include a new sewing station and an additional member of the trimming staff.

The storage area for trim has been increased, allowing the company to stock and store hides for easier and quicker turnaround of vehicles.

With this increased capacity, CMC can now offer trim facilities to all makes of classic cars. As an example, a new hood is being made and fitted to a Bentley Series 2 Continental by H J Mulliner.

All trimming is undertaken in-house using leather supplied by the leading UK manufacturers, such as UK Hide Company, Bridge of Weir and Andrew Muirhead.

Everything is made to the car to ensure exact fit.


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CMCs reputation for world-class Jaguar restoration work has yet again been enhanced by one of the most challenging projects ever undertaken on any car.

Over five and a half thousand skilled man hours have gone into the restoration of what is regarded by aficionados as the most beautiful E-Type ever produced, the Lindner/Nocker Lightweight.

Our craftsmen have been able to save over 90% of the original body from the tangled shell that entered our workshop over three years ago. This truly amazing restoration is a wonderful testament to the highly skilled team in our body shop.

If you have a special body project like the one in the attached article, or an accident repair, we would be pleased to help.

To view more details on this amazing restoration click here.

To many people, the E-type Roadster with a hard-top fitted is just stunningly beautiful. They are pure sculpture.

With the original E-types available as just two models, the Roadster and the Fixed Head Coupe, we now tend to forget that owners fitted a hardtop to the open versions in the winter. Jaguar thought the variation important enough to devote a full page of the original brochure to a roadster with the hard-top fitted.

We have now remanufactured these hard-tops for the Series 1 and Series 2 cars (3.8 and 4.2 litre-engined E-types). They are an exact reproduction of the original ones produced by Jaguar, including double skin fibre glass, Perspex rear window, chrome-plated brass mouldings, cantrail and body seals. Click on this link for more information on the CMC remanufactured E-type hard-tops.

With very little time to spare, we completed the substantial repairs to the famous 7 Days and 7 Nights XK 120, which is part of the Jaguar Heritage collection, in time for the 2009 Goodwood Revival meeting, where it was displayed outside the Earls Court re-creation in the paddock.

Originally the XK was used by Jaguar's legendary Engineering Director, Bill Heynes, as his road car. However, when Jaguar decided to take a 120 to the banked Montlhéry track, just outside Paris, for a spot of record breaking, they used this car, the second right hand drive example built. Pye provided a radio so the drivers could keep in touch with the rudimentary pits.

Among the four drivers was a young Stirling Moss who remembers it well and thinks the feat of covering over 16,000 miles non-stop for seven days was quite something for a road car. He recalls that the track was very bumpy, just to add to the challenge.

To alleviate the boredom, Moss and his fellow drivers Jack Fairman, Leslie Johnson and Bert Hadley, played all sorts of tricks on each other. One got on top of another's shoulders and they wrapped an enormous tarpaulin round them like a very large cape, added a cone to his head and appeared in the darkness on the edge of the banking!

A very rare XKSS is currently in our workshops for a little light repair work to the bodywork. Only 16 were made by Jaguar before the famous factory fire in 1957 supposedly put paid to any more being built as vital jigs were lost.

As the XKSS was basically a D-type with a full width windscreen, grafted on bumpers blades which would be copied for the E-type, a passenger door, luggage rack and soft top, the XKSS was very much the supercar of its age – and rather rarer than most supercars.

A few years ago, we rebuilt one of the most famous of the works D-types, OKV 1, and this car is often in the workshops for race preparation. So, we are no strangers to genuine D-types.