JaguarE-Type

Lindner-Nöcker Jaguar E-Type Lightweight

The Lightweight that Jaguar's German importer, Peter Lindner, raced with Peter Nöcker in 1963–64: the only one the factory rebodied with a low-drag roof and tail. Badly damaged in 1964, it was restored on its original body and shown again in 2011.

A silver low-drag E-Type with the registration 4868 WK on an orange display floor in a glass pavilion.
4868 WK (S850662), restored in 2007–11, on display at the AvD Oldtimer-Grand-Prix at the Nürburgring in August 2011.Lothar Spurzem, CC BY-SA 2.0 de

Two Germans from Düsseldorf raced this car: Peter Lindner, Jaguar's importer for West Germany, and Peter Nöcker. It was a Lightweight, chassis S850662, registered 4868 WK, and the two raced it in two different bodies.

Its race record, its papers and its history, stop by stop, are in the panels below. This page tells the two men, the car's two bodies, and its two rebuilds.⁠1​2​3

Lindner and Nöcker

Sources for The Lindner-Nöcker Lightweight (4868 WK)

Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust⁠1; collectordata.com (the XKEdata family of registers), Coventry Racers: Jaguar C-Type, D-Type, XKSS and Lightweight E-Type register⁠4; Denis Jenkinson, "A.D.A.C. 1000 Kilometres, Nurburgring" ("A Race of Incidents"), Motor Sport, Jun 1963, p. 14⁠5; racingsportscars.com, "Jaguar E-Type – All Results"⁠6; Motor Sport, "Famous E-type to star at show", Aug 2011, p. 20⁠2; racingsportscars.com, Le Mans 24 Hours 1964, results⁠7; Motor Sport, "Jaguar E-type: the end of production and end of an era – but not of a legend", May 1975, p. 29⁠8; Bill Boddy, "29th Tourist Trophy race", Motor Sport, Oct 1964, p. 49⁠9; racingsportscars.com, Paris 1000 km 1964 (Montlhéry), results⁠10; Mick Walsh, "Clone Coupe", Classic & Sports Car, Jun 1994⁠11; Paul Lawrence, "Cholmondeley Pageant of Power", Motor Sport, Sep 2011, p. 22⁠3

Lindner had held the import business since 1957, and raced Jaguars himself. Nöcker won the first European Touring Car Championship in 1963, in the team's Jaguar Mk II saloon (sedan). Of the two, the Trust writes, Nöcker "was regarded as the better, smoother driver".⁠1

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Two bodies

In 1963 the car ran as Jaguar built the Lightweights, an open two-seater with an aluminium hardtop. In that form, at the Nürburgring in May, Lindner led the field away. Classic & Sports Car wrote in 1994 that it was Peter Lumsden who led, but Motor Sport's report of the race names Lindner.

For 1964 the factory gave it a fastback roof and tail, worked out by Malcolm Sayer in MIRA's wind tunnel, like those of the factory's Low Drag Coupé, EC1001, which is another car; Motor Sport has called it "the only such car built by the Jaguar factory".⁠5​12​11​1​2​13

A black-and-white photograph of a Lightweight E-Type with a hardtop and the number 67 racing past trees, a blurred branch in the foreground.
Plate I Lindner and Nöcker's Lightweight in its 1963 open body with a hardtop, in the Nürburgring 1000 km on 19 May 1963.Lothar Spurzem, CC BY-SA 2.0 de
A black-and-white photograph of a silver low-drag E-Type coupé numbered 88 at a pit stop, surrounded by mechanics, with a crowded grandstand behind.
Plate II A pit stop in the Nürburgring 1000 km on 31 May 1964, the car in its low-drag body; the photographer names Peter Lindner, standing behind it, and Peter Nöcker, in a helmet.Lothar Spurzem, CC BY-SA 2.0 de

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Rebuilt twice

The car was badly damaged at Montlhéry in October 1964, in the accident in which Lindner died, as its history records.

The car has been rebuilt twice, and the second rebuild answers a question often asked of it.

This restoration is a wonderful testament to the highly skilled team in our body shop

Peter Neumark, Classic Motor Cars, to Motor Sport, August 2011⁠1​11​2​3

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Where it has been

  1. 1963

    Registered 4868 WK by Jaguar

    3 May 1963. The fifth of the twelve Lightweights by the JDHT's count, it was registered by Jaguar on 3 May 1963 and delivered a fortnight later to Peter Lindner, Jaguar's importer for West Germany, who raced it with Peter Nöcker

    Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust⁠1; collectordata.com (the XKEdata family of registers), Coventry Racers: Jaguar C-Type, D-Type, XKSS and Lightweight E-Type register⁠4

  2. 1963

    Led the GT cars at the Nürburgring

    19 May 1963. In the brand-new car Lindner led from the start of the Nürburgring 1000 km until the works Ferraris passed at the end of the first lap, and then led the GT cars, by Motor Sport's report; the car retired

    Denis Jenkinson, "A.D.A.C. 1000 Kilometres, Nurburgring" ("A Race of Incidents"), Motor Sport, Jun 1963, p. 14⁠5; Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust⁠1; racingsportscars.com, "Jaguar E-Type – All Results"⁠6

  3. 1963

    Won at the Avus

    30 June 1963. Nöcker won the GT race at the Avus in Berlin, averaging 132 mph with a fastest lap of 137 mph, after a duel with a Ferrari GTO

    Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust⁠1; racingsportscars.com, "Jaguar E-Type – All Results"⁠6

  4. 1963

    Won at the Avus again

    6 October 1963. Lindner won at the Avus in October

    Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust⁠1; racingsportscars.com, "Jaguar E-Type – All Results"⁠6

  5. 1964

    A low-drag body, and 6th at the Le Mans test

    19 April 1964. For 1964 the factory gave it a fastback roof and tail that Malcolm Sayer developed from the Low Drag Coupé, the only Lightweight it rebodied this way. Lindner and Nöcker were 6th at the April test

    Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust⁠1; Motor Sport, "Famous E-type to star at show", Aug 2011, p. 20⁠2; racingsportscars.com, "Jaguar E-Type – All Results"⁠6

  6. 1964

    Retired from the Le Mans 24 Hours

    June 1964. Its engine gave 344 bhp gross, Motor Sport later wrote. Lindner and Nöcker retired with a failed head gasket after 149 laps

    racingsportscars.com, Le Mans 24 Hours 1964, results⁠7; Motor Sport, "Jaguar E-type: the end of production and end of an era – but not of a legend", May 1975, p. 29⁠8; Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust⁠1

  7. 1964

    Non-starter in the Tourist Trophy

    29 August 1964. It was wrecked in practice at Goodwood (Peter Sutcliffe was driving, Motor Sport reported) and did not start

    Bill Boddy, "29th Tourist Trophy race", Motor Sport, Oct 1964, p. 49⁠9; racingsportscars.com, "Jaguar E-Type – All Results"⁠6

  8. 1964

    The Paris 1000 km, Montlhéry

    11 October 1964. In heavy rain at the Paris 1000 km at Montlhéry on 11 October 1964, Lindner's car left the banking and collided with Franco Patria's Abarth-Simca near the pits. Both drivers and three marshals died.

    racingsportscars.com, Paris 1000 km 1964 (Montlhéry), results⁠10; Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust⁠1

  9. 1974

    Released

    The car was stored for many years and released in 1974

    Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust⁠1; Motor Sport, "Famous E-type to star at show", Aug 2011, p. 20⁠2

  10. 2007

    Restoration begun

    Classic & Sports Car reported in 1994 that Lynx had rebuilt the car in the 1980s on a fresh monocoque, keeping the damaged original body with it. From 2007 Classic Motor Cars of Bridgnorth restored that original body, saving more than 90 per cent of it; the work took about 7,000 man-hours, 5,000 of them on the body. Peter Wilson, who had worked in Jaguar's competition department in 1964, and Lindner's family helped

    Mick Walsh, "Clone Coupe", Classic & Sports Car, Jun 1994⁠11; Motor Sport, "Famous E-type to star at show", Aug 2011, p. 20⁠2; Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust⁠1

  11. 2011

    Back at Cholmondeley

    July 2011. Finished in 2011, the E-Type's 50th year, it reappeared in July 2011 at the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power. The JDHT records that it was named Restoration of the Year at the 2011 International Historic Motoring Awards

    Paul Lawrence, "Cholmondeley Pageant of Power", Motor Sport, Sep 2011, p. 22⁠3; Motor Sport, "Famous E-type to star at show", Aug 2011, p. 20⁠2; Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust⁠1

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Results

A yellow year marks a win.

  • 1963

    Nürburgring 1000 km 1963

    19 May 1963, Nürburgring, Germany. Peter Lindner and Peter Nöcker: retired⁠12​5​1

  • 1963

    DARM GT race, Avus 1963

    30 June 1963, Avus, Berlin, Germany. Peter Nöcker: 1st overall⁠14​1

  • 1963

    DARM GT race, Norisring 1963

    21 July 1963, Norisring, Nuremberg, Germany. Peter Nöcker: 1st overall⁠6

  • 1963

    RAC Tourist Trophy 1963

    24 August 1963, Goodwood, England. Peter Lindner and Peter Nöcker: did not start⁠15​1

  • 1963

    Avus GT race, October 1963

    6 October 1963, Avus, Berlin, Germany. Peter Lindner: 1st overall⁠1​6

  • 1964

    Le Mans Test Weekend 1964

    19 April 1964, Le Mans, France. Peter Lindner and Peter Nöcker: 6th overall⁠16​1

  • 1964

    Nürburgring 1000 km 1964

    31 May 1964, Nürburgring, Germany. Peter Lindner and Peter Nöcker: retired: gearbox⁠17​1

  • 1964

    Le Mans 24 Hours 1964

    20 June 1964, Le Mans, France. No. 16, Peter Lindner and Peter Nöcker: retired: head gasket⁠7​18​1

  • 1964

    DARM GT race, Norisring 1964

    5 July 1964, Norisring, Nuremberg, Germany. Peter Nöcker: 1st overall⁠6

  • 1964

    RAC Tourist Trophy 1964

    29 August 1964, Goodwood, England. Peter Nöcker and Lindner: did not start: accident in practice⁠19​9

  • 1964

    Paris 1000 km 1964

    11 October 1964, Montlhéry, France. Peter Nöcker and Peter Lindner: retired: accident⁠10​1

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Sources

Sources are given as plain text; their addresses are on the sources page.

  • Primarymade at the time, by the maker or by people who were there
  • Referenceserious later work: clubs, specialists, magazines, books
  • Databaseresults and listings, entry by entry
  1. Shihanki Elpitiya and Tony Merrygold, "Peter Lindner: Racing Driver Who Died Driving His Own Lightweight E-type", Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust, race table, 19 May 1963; race table; race table, 24 August 1963; race table, 19 April 1964; race table, 31 May 1964; race table, 22 June 1964; race table, 11 October 1964. Primary
  2. Motor Sport, "Famous E-type to star at show", Aug 2011, p. 20, p. 20. Reference
  3. Paul Lawrence, "Cholmondeley Pageant of Power", Motor Sport, Sep 2011, p. 22. Reference
  4. collectordata.com (the XKEdata family of registers), Coventry Racers: Jaguar C-Type, D-Type, XKSS and Lightweight E-Type register, car page S850662. Reference
  5. Denis Jenkinson, "A.D.A.C. 1000 Kilometres, Nurburgring" ("A Race of Incidents"), Motor Sport, Jun 1963, p. 14, p. 14; para. 5. Primary
  6. racingsportscars.com, "Jaguar E-Type – All Results", 19 May 1963, Nürburgring; 30 June 1963, Avus; 6 October 1963, Avus; 19 April 1964, Le Mans test; 29 August 1964, Goodwood; 21.7.1963, Norisring, 1st, S850662; 6.10.1963, Avus, 1st; 5.7.1964, Norisring, 1st, S850662. Database
  7. racingsportscars.com, Le Mans 24 Hours 1964, results, retirements, 149 laps. Database
  8. Motor Sport, "Jaguar E-type: the end of production and end of an era – but not of a legend", May 1975, p. 29, p. 29. Primary
  9. Bill Boddy, "29th Tourist Trophy race", Motor Sport, Oct 1964, p. 49, p. 49; practice. Primary
  10. racingsportscars.com, Paris 1000 km 1964 (Montlhéry), results, retirements, 83 laps. Database
  11. Mick Walsh, "Clone Coupe", Classic & Sports Car, Jun 1994. Reference
  12. racingsportscars.com, Nürburgring 1000 Kilometres 1963, results, retirements. Database
  13. Damien Smith, "Cut and pace", Motor Sport, Mar 2005, p. 86. Reference
  14. racingsportscars.com, DARM GT Avus 1963, results, results, 1st. Database
  15. Motor Sport, "Tourist Trophy" ("Ferrari's fourth successive victory"), Oct 1963, p. 22, non-starters. Primary
  16. racingsportscars.com, Le Mans Test 1964, test results, results, 6th, 4:07.3. Database
  17. racingsportscars.com, Nürburgring 1000 Kilometres 1964, results, retirements. Database
  18. Denis Jenkinson, "The 24 Hours of Le Mans", Motor Sport, Jul 1964. Primary
  19. racingsportscars.com, Tourist Trophy 1964 (Goodwood), results, non-starters. Database

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