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Originally Posted by notfarnow
The seller is telling him it has a dealer installed, but factory lightweight kit. Sounds like BS myth that has been passed down from owner to owner over the years. I've done some googling and checked the books I have, and none of them mention this as an option or a kit.
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I had an E Type that was going to be converted to a "lightweight" look.
Back in the day this usually meant taking off the front & rear bumper bars, removing the horizontal panel seam that was exposed under the rear bumper and adding small leather bonnet safety straps and a white outline painted around the nose intake.
Mechanically you would add Webers & maybe a magneto.
Then put numbers on the doors.
Luckily for my car - I bought it before the 'improvements' went too far.
This is a real one, to show what the copycats tried to duplicate.
I never heard that the factory offered a Kit - but in the 1960s there were plenty of shops that would do a Magnus Walker job on your E Type.
In the old days. the first place you would look for rust in an E Type was, after you took out the spare wheel, inspect the reinforcing braces on the spare wheel well floor. If there were no rust spots there (Very Rare!!
) it was good bet that the car was rust-free.