Jaguar E1A was a prototype used only for factory testing. The E2A was commisioned by Briggs Cunningham to run at Le Mans as an interim race car between the D-Type and the E-Type that would be introduced in 1961. It had a steel chassis and aluminum body.
E2A was run at the 1960 Le Mans Practice using the #7 and fell out out the actual race due to a leaking head gasket caused by faulty fuel injection. It ran four more races before returning to Jaguar to be scrapped. Roger Woodley, Jaguar's customer competition car manager, saved the car for his wife and she kept it until 2008 when it was auctioned for five million US.
