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The CV8 was originally designed to have a perspex cover over the lights.
For reasons I've now forgotten that idea was abandoned.
Nice cars though I once owned a Series 2.
According to this biography of Eric Neale on jensen541.com it was because Jaguar had already been getting it in the neck about condensation on the inside of the cowls on E types 
Giles. Mogless in Paris.
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I worked for Leyland when the first XJS'S CAME OUT SO THERE WERE A FEW V12 E Types still about that they couldn't shift, bright yellow,pinkish and a skin coloured number, there was a company in Brum that made fibreglass hoods with different lights and grills in...I have seen a small number of them back in the mid 70s...the bubble over the lights was dropped by Leyland to expensive and so made the front uglier than normal that's when some small companies started the copies....you,ll prob find at some point its been smashed up and a joey bonnet bolted to it....my brother had a fibreglass e type copy that bolted on to a ford Pop.... seem to remember it was made by Jago? death trap that was nearly as ugly as the one in the picture...luckily it only had a 100e engine with a 3 speed box in it. Very interesting  Thank you very much 
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