2016-10-27 14:28:04 | Harry Stevens writes:

For sale at Terence Morley Classic Cars near Canterbury for £59,750. Seller's description below. The URL is www.terencemorleyclassiccars.co.uk/forsale.php

This lovely E Type is finished in Ascot fawn bodywork with dark red leather interior trim and carpets plus wood rimmed steering wheel. Distributed new to New York USA in December 1971 where it spent 42 years with one owner in a dry state before being repatriated back to the UK and converted to right hand drive. The car has had a complete re-trim and re-paint however the body panels, wheels and chrome are all original which shows how little damp it has seen in its life. The car is in beautiful condition and drives as one would expect a very good E Type should. This car is supplied with history file, owners handbook, heritage certificate, plus USA and UK registration papers.

2024-09-25 13:12:08 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 9/24

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Auction description:

Well Maintained

Steel Wheels

Rare Original Colour

Presents Well

Repainted and Retrimmed

1S72598

98650 miles

5300cc

manual

Ascot Fawn

Red

Right-hand drive

In the seller’s care since 2019, ‘BVM 283K’ is a series 3 Jaguar E Type fitted with the V12 engine and a manual gearbox. Still finished in its original colour of Ascot Fawn with a red leather interior, as a later car it also benefits from 2+2 seating.

It started life in New York, leaving these shores on the 31st of December 1971. It then spent 42 years in the same pair of hands in Kansas. It returned to the UK in 2014, where it was treated to a full respray and retrim using the original panels and wheels, as well as most of the chrome.

With just two previous UK owners, further positives include regular fettling and a history file that includes a Jaguar Heritage Trust Production Record Trace Certificate confirming it specification today is the same as when it left the factory.

Exterior

The Ascot Fawn bodywork presents very well indeed but then the odometer suggests it has only travelled around 3,500 miles since its first MoT test after being repainted in 2014.

It helps of course that the panels are not only straight but align nicely, but the decision to retain the car’s original colour was inspired as its very of-the-period hue makes a refreshing change from some of the more commonplace colours we see.

The 15-inch steel wheels are in a good condition. Painted silver, they’re enhanced with chrome rim trims and chrome Jaguar hubcaps. There is some slight pitting and corrosion to the brightwork but it’s minimal and could easily be chalked up to a developing patina.

The rest of the chrome is good; the later cars do wear a little more in the way of decoration and this one looks lovely, the chrome trim complementing the factory colour very nicely. Sure, there is some very light pitting here and there such as the offside rear quarter bumper, but it really is minimal and wouldn’t concern most people.

The tyres are Kenda Komet Plus KR23 all round. They have plenty of tread left on them but date back to 2013, so they’re probably due for replacement on the grounds of their age – and if that doesn’t bother you enough to change them then perhaps the alliterative double ‘K’ will…

Other woes are few. There is some light bubbling on the top of the nearside front wing, plus some rust at the top of the offside door where it meets the window frame, the lower section of the nearside rear wing, the inside of the rear door, and the nearside sill.

Less urgent is the rubber seal on the rear door, which has perished. There’s a small chip in the windscreen too but everything else, including the lamp lenses, window glazing, and badges, is all good.