Lindner Nocker Jaguar E-type to Appear at Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb

If you are into tuning, large subwoofers and chrome wheels, than stop reading this article - it’s not for you. However, if you prefer to spend your evenings reading cars’ owner manuals and would like to one day have your own Jaguar E-type in mint condition, which you’ve lovingly restored by hand over a period of 10 year, than this year’s Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb will sound like a lot of fun.

It’s the year of the big cat, and Lindner Jaguar and other famous Jags to appear at Shelsley, in order to celebrate 50 years of the E-type and 60 years of the C-type, Jaguar’s first Le Mans winner.

As we previously reported, the Lindner Nocker has been put back together in one of the most complex restorations ever, after 7,000 hours of work at Bridgnorth.

"This is one of the most major restorations ever to take place in the World. Many said that it could not be done but we have proved them wrong," said Peter Neumark, the Chairman of Classic Motor Cars.

Jaguar Heritage are taking five of their most iconic cars, including XJ13, the unique 12 cylinder rear engined racer that never raced. Jaguar’s test driver Norman Dewis  was driving it at very high speed at the MIRA test track when a tyre burst at over 130mph and the car cart wheeled end over end into a field. Jaguar might have scrapped it then and there, but instead decided to rebuild it like new.

Also at Shelsley will be three examples of the famous D-type which won Le Mans three times. Shelsley commentator Max Trimble will be reunited with the D type he raced back in 1957.