Jaguar E-Type Lightweight Racing Bonnet

Jaguar E-Type Lightweight Racing Bonnet

A one off special lightweight aluminium bonnet for a Jaguar E-Type built from scratch. Our client needed it to be both lightweight but with some custom variations from the orginal bonnet.

  • Custom aluminium Jaguar E-Type lightweight racing bonnet, on car, front
  • Custom aluminium Jaguar E-Type lightweight racing bonnet, on car, nearside
  • Custom aluminium Jaguar E-Type lightweight racing bonnet, on car, offside
  • Custom aluminium Jaguar E-Type lightweight racing bonnet, on car, offside front

Jaguar SS100

These floor pans and valances for this Jaguar SS100 were quite awkward to fabricate. Two specially made presses were needed to stamp out the patterns in the front and rear pans. The front valance and engine side valances were constructed in the normal way.

  • Jaguar SS100 new rear floor pan
  • New rear floor pan for a Jaguar SS100
  • New rear floor pan for a Jaguar SS100, side
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  • Jaguar SS100 new front floor pan
  • New front floor pan for a Jaguar SS100
  • New front floor pan for a Jaguar SS100, side
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  • Press tools for a Jaguar SS100 floor pan
  • Both press tools for a Jaguar SS100 floor pan
  • Press tool for a Jaguar SS100 floor pan
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  • Old and new engine side valances for a Jaguar SS100
  • New engine side valances for a Jaguar SS100
  • Old and new front valances for a Jaguar SS100
  • Old and new front valances for a Jaguar SS100, side
  • New engine and front valances for a Jaguar SS100

Jaguar D-Type Mirror Cowling

An old client of ours asked us to make this simple aluminium centre mirror cowling for his D-Type Jaguar. You can now see a video of Don making this aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling the first video in our new YouTube channel.

  • Marking the aluminium for a Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling
  • Marking the aluminium for a Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling with some dividers
  • Wheeling the aluminium for a Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling
  • Shaping the aluminium for this Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling with a flipper
  • Template checking
  • Template checking
  • An assembled Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling after inital file up
  • Aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling after inital file up
  • Aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling after inital file up, top
  • Cutting the excess aluminium off with snips
  • Swaging the flange for this aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling
  • Swaging the front return on this aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling with a jenny
  • Filing the front return on this aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling
  • Annealing the flange area ready to be returned
  • Shaping the flange area for this aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling
  • Shaping the flange with a hammer
  • The aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling with completed flange
  • Papering up this new aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling
  • The newly completed aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling, inside
  • The newly completed aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling, top
  • The newly completed aluminium Jaguar D-Type mirror cowling

We handmade this entire screen surround in brass and after numerous fittings it was nickel plated then fitted for the final time to the car.

  • Jaguar D-Type screen surround in brass, before plating
  • Jaguar D-Type screen surround in brass, front, before plating
  • Jaguar D-Type screen surround parts in brass, before plating
  • Jaguar D-Type screen surround in brass, top, before plating
  • A nickel plated Jaguar D-Type screen surround fitted to car
  • A nickel plated Jaguar D-Type screen surround fitted to car, driver view
  • A nickel plated Jaguar D-Type screen surround fitted to car, front
  • A nickel plated Jaguar D-Type screen surround fitted to car, nearside
  • A nickel plated Jaguar D-Type screen surround fitted to car, nearside front
  • A nickel plated Jaguar D-Type screen surround fitted to car, offside
  • A new fitted nickel plated Jaguar D-Type screen surround

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