Jaguar : E-Type Series 1
Sale price: $75,000.00
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Technical specifications
| Manufacturer: | Jaguar |
| Model: | E-Type |
| Year: | 1962 |
| Color: | Emerald Green Pearl Metallic |
| Mileage: | 842 |
| Interior Color: | Biscuit |
| Engine: | 3.8 L DOHC inline 6 cylinder |
| Trim: | Fixed Head Coupe |
| Got questions? | Ask the Seller |
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Description
Have you ever dreamed of owning an E-type Jag to use and
enjoy the way people did back in the sixties?
Not something to just park up and polish but a sexy car to drive on
those special days in those special ways.
If so, this could be the car for you.
It’s a very nice usable car that drives absolutely beautifully and attracts
admiring attention wherever it goes.
Sensible upgrades and careful maintenance make it a reliable and exciting
car to drive, rather than one for the concours lawn. After all, using a car as a car tends to lead
to a bit of gentle wear and tear. Let’s
call it patina.
This car was completed on February 26, 1962, less than one year after the E-type’s grand unveiling in Geneva, and dispatched from the factory on March 13. It’s a genuine California car, being first registered in San Francisco on July 9. The J62 serial number reflects a Californian regulation that required registration numbers to include the year of manufacture, and serves to confirm its west coast beginnings.
The story, as told to me, picks up again in the late 1990s when the car was imported into Canada by Alistair Black Special Services as a bit of a project. Over the years the original silver grey paint had been replaced with black and the aluminium console panel covered over with padded vinyl in the fashion of the newer E-types of the day. Before work could begin the car moved on to Ron Humphreys, who ultimately undertook the restoration. This was Ron’s third restoration and second on a Jaguar, the first being an XJS. Ron did a very thorough job, stripping the car completely, mounting the body on a rotisserie and taking it back to bare metal. He told me that the car was very solid with only one small rust hole, located under the driver’s right heel. Ron had the car painted in its present lovely but non-Jaguar emerald green metallic and installed a new biscuit coloured interior. He also replaced the front brakes with Willwood 4 piston callipers c/w drilled rotors and installed polyurethane suspension bushes throughout. I purchased the car in September 2006, showing 89,355 miles on the speedo, and continued to upgrade and renew various aspects.
The Moss gearbox was one of the few things that was criticised about E-types back in the day. This car answers that criticism with the
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This car was completed on February 26, 1962, less than one year after the E-type’s grand unveiling in Geneva, and dispatched from the factory on March 13. It’s a genuine California car, being first registered in San Francisco on July 9. The J62 serial number reflects a Californian regulation that required registration numbers to include the year of manufacture, and serves to confirm its west coast beginnings.
The story, as told to me, picks up again in the late 1990s when the car was imported into Canada by Alistair Black Special Services as a bit of a project. Over the years the original silver grey paint had been replaced with black and the aluminium console panel covered over with padded vinyl in the fashion of the newer E-types of the day. Before work could begin the car moved on to Ron Humphreys, who ultimately undertook the restoration. This was Ron’s third restoration and second on a Jaguar, the first being an XJS. Ron did a very thorough job, stripping the car completely, mounting the body on a rotisserie and taking it back to bare metal. He told me that the car was very solid with only one small rust hole, located under the driver’s right heel. Ron had the car painted in its present lovely but non-Jaguar emerald green metallic and installed a new biscuit coloured interior. He also replaced the front brakes with Willwood 4 piston callipers c/w drilled rotors and installed polyurethane suspension bushes throughout. I purchased the car in September 2006, showing 89,355 miles on the speedo, and continued to upgrade and renew various aspects.
The Moss gearbox was one of the few things that was criticised about E-types back in the day. This car answers that criticism with the
Also published at eBay.ca
