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Lyonheart K creates a 21st-century E-Type for the moneyed Jag fan

Modern engineering and the nostalgia of the wealthy has combined to create a new niche in the automotive world: the retro-rod, a car with up-to-date technology designed to look like it rolled off the showroom floor a few decades ago. For years, Corvette fans have been able to buy an fifth-generation Vette dressed like it was 1953, and now a British firm plans a similar kind of time travel with the Jaguar E-Type — but the trip doesn't come cheap.