There was a Saudi prince at UC Santa Barbara in the last half of the sixties who had 6 XKEs and a Aston Martin. I met him a couple of times when we were in the same class. Evidently he used to loan the E-types out to friends until one wrapped it around a tree.

As I remember, one of the reasons that they opened up the nose in the later years was to help increase airflow for cooling as they always had overheating problems, even when new.

Jim Paget
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