Something lovely in the woodshed…
9600HP awaits its day in the sun
THERE’S A PHOTO IN THIS HUGE and typically weighty offering from Porter Press that takes me back 35 years. It’s the dim interior of a barn with a row of scruffy Jaguars all in need of attention. The barn is on Philip Porter’s farm HQ, “And that,” Philip told me reverently, “is the world’s oldest E-type Jaguar.” I looked at the remains of the once beautiful coupé, seeing rust flaking off the nose where the letters 9600 HP were dimly visible through the grime.