Classic Car Hire in Yorkshire by Reflections

Perhaps the finest hour mechanically of our classic sports car for hire in Yorkshire began during the early 1970s and the times of the Modsports (modified sports car racing) which were, up until 1972 dominated by E-types.

The sport had originally been intended to attract amateurs, but had become a more expensive sport with amazing modified cars that could never be road driven legally. Hence production sports car racing (prodsports) saw a revival about this time.

Cars were placed in racing categories by their price. Thus the E-type was ideally suitable for the class up to £3000. In 1973 Peter Taylor, a Jaguar development engineer, won the first new prodsports championship. Whilst in modsports Guy Beddington was continuing to dominate in a series three E-type. Meanwhile an American driver persuaded jaguar to race a V12 E-type. After six months of development the SCCA series 3 E-types were competing, dominating events in their class.

E-types were produced until 1974, and it was largely due to new American crash safety regulations that saw the end of the line for the model. They sold well into 1975 despite the slump caused by the oil crisis of 1974. The end of an era came for the E-type and it is great shame as Jaguar have never since managed bring in a new era to replace it, which is not through lack of trying.

The E-type production lines went on to give us the XJ-S, a Grand Touring car utilising the same V12 engine and transmission as the E-type, and could perhaps be considered a classic itself, but it or any other car could never outshine the Jaguar E-Type classic sports car that our customers hire and drive about the scenic countryside of Yorkshire.