On September 18th 1969, a young Guy Bedington ordered a new V12 E-type FHC from a Torquay Jaguar dealer ( a full two years before the car was due to be released !! ). When he finally took delivery of the Silver Fixedhead he quickly clocked up 1,000 miles road miles in the first week !! before it needed Jaguar Cars stipulated first service, very soon after this Guy started to modify the car for competition. In fact, those first 1,000 miles were the only miles the car would cover on open road, the rest of this E-types life was spent on the race track. He was now very determined to race his E-type and continued to develop the car with mechanical changes and serious bodywork mods to house the fat slick tyres the car would need to be competitive in the UK Modsports series and UK hill climbs. Guy soon emerged as a front runner in Modsports with a flamboyant style to go with it, he was often seen drifting the E-type sideways on full power with massive trails of tyre smoke. Guy's E-type was the very first E-type Series III V12 to race on the track ( even before Bob Tullius ) and was the very first V12 E-type to win a competitive race. At the time, he didn't know he was writing part of the Jaguar history books because he was just a young man who had a desire to race. After six years of successful racing Guy sold the E-type in 1977 and emigrated to Australia. Like many gas-guzzling Jaguar's in the late seventies the car was sold and re-sold to several people before being bought by Dick Soans. Dick was a former Jaguar Student apprentice who bought the car to race, but in the end lack of time prevented him from doing so, but whilst owing it he did fully renovate it. At present the E-type has crossed the big pond to Australia where it is owned and raced by Aaron Lewis in the Australian Historic Series. Guy Bedington was reunited with his beloved E-type twenty years later in 1997 when Aaron came to the Lakeside historic meeting with Aaron letting Guy drive it again at fairly serious speeds and apart from the Green paintwork and the whale tail spoiler, the car was remarkably as Guy had left it. The tyres were the largest F5000 ones Guy could find and the car still had a large titanium plate cut from a famous British warship bolted to the suspension. The engine bay, catch tanks, air ducting and perspex windows were all still there as Guy had constructed them. The dash, seat and roll cage were now updated but the main body and arches were the still the same.