2015-11-24 22:06:29 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 12/15
www.bonhams.com/auctions/22705/lot/371/

Auction description:
Lot 371
1962 Jaguar E-Type 'Series 1' 3.8-Litre Competition Coupé
Registration no. PFL 478
Chassis no. 860657
Engine no. R6121-9
£100,000 - 120,000
US$ 150,000 - 180,000
Auction 22705:
The December Sale
Collector's Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Automobilia
10 Dec 2015 14:00 GMT
Hendon, RAF Museum

This particular E-Type coupé has enjoyed an illustrious 20-year competition career, which has included participation in the Spa 6-Hour endurance race and Goodwood Members' Meeting. Maintained regardless of cost by the current owner, it is fitted with a very tractable, triple Weber-equipped racing engine built by the acknowledged maestro, Rob Beere, which was refreshed in 2015 and is said to produce 340bhp. Other noteworthy features include peg-drive wheels, correct brakes, Avon competition tyres, plumbed-in fire extinguisher, roll cage, leather seats, full synchromesh close-ratio gearbox, 3.54:1 ratio Powr-Lok differential, and a fast road/race suspension set-up. This car is eligible for the Jaguar Heritage and other historic sports car series or would be equally suited to fast road use. Fully prepared and race ready, 'PFL 478' comes with sundry invoices, MoT to August 2016, a V5 registration document and current FIA/HTP papers.

2024-09-29 21:45:20 | pauls writes:

Car returns to auction 10/24

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-56---1962-jaguar-e-type-38-litre-semi-lightweigh ...&so=0&st=&sto=0&au=541&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0& ...

Auction description:

9th Oct, 2024 Imperial War Museum | Duxford, Cambridgeshire

1962 Jaguar E-Type 3.8 litre 'Semi-Lightweight' Coupe

Road legal and tractable but current FIA HTP

Estimate £120,000 - £160,000

Registration No: BOG 6

Chassis No: 860657

MOT: May 2025

Entered from The Merlin Collection

A 'home market' car supplied new via Henlys of London

Extensively restored and reconfigured for competition use in 2000 - 2001

Subsequently campaigned at the Spa 6-Hours, Goodwood Members Meeting, Zolder and the Nurburgring etc

Aluminium bonnet, tailgate and doors plus plexiglass side / rear windows (previously weighted at 1,100kg kerbwieght)

Rob Beere engine developing over 340bhp yet docile enough for road use

Purchased from Jaguar Land Rover Classic's 'Works Legends' showroom (where it was advertised for £249,940)

Used by the vendor as an exhilarating 'fast road' car with its suspension recalibrated accordingly and a bespoke 'peg drive' space saver wheel made especially for it

FIA HTP valid until 2027

According to its accompanying Jaguar Heritage Production Record Trace Certificate, chassis 860657 was completed on 14th June 1962 and despatched to distributor Henlys Limited of London some three weeks later. Originally finished in Opalescent Silver Blue and issued with the Soke of Peterborough number plate ‘PFL 478’ on 3rd August 1962, the Fixed Head Coupe belonged to Robert Henry Williams Esq of Dunstable, Bedfordshire the following decade. Sold to Michael Moore Esq of Broomstick Cars in 1984 (arguably better known for their BS120 homage to the Jaguar XK120), the E-Type was uprated to ‘Semi Lightweight’ specification around the turn of the Millennium. Stripped to bare metal, its aluminium bonnet, tailgate and doors were sourced from the renowned RS Panels. First issued with FIA papers during 2001, the two-seater raced at Zolder, the Nurburgring, Spa 6-hours and Goodwood Members’ Meeting thereafter. Acquired by historic racer and serial E-Type campaigner Paul Kennelly in 2011, he initially tasked marque specialist CKL Developments with further lightening and improving chassis 860657. However, it would be another five years before he commissioned John Arnold of Brooklands Motorsport (and later Revival Motorsport) to ‘turn the Coupe into a well-prepared, competitive race car’. Disassembled once more, the Jaguar was refinished in its original Opalescent Silver Blue and trimmed in Dark Blue to match Mr Kennelly’s existing Lightweight Roadster ‘245 YUB’. Air duct cooling was added to the front and rear brakes and the existing Rob Beere 3.8 litre XK DOHC ‘full race’ engine refreshed. Numbered as ‘7B55246-8’ the unit in question remains in situ. Breathing through triple Weber carburettors and incorporating a ‘wide cheek’ crankshaft, Saenz steel conrods and Cosworth pistons, a past dyno sheet records the straight-six as developing 342.8bhp and 317.7lbft of torque. A ‘track legal’ Hayward & Scott stainless steel exhaust was added and the existing rollcage replaced by a more comprehensive one from Custom Cages. The wiring was tidied and a new FIA Historic Technical Passport issued on April 4th 2017.

Something of a ‘spare’ during Paul Kennelly’s custodianship, the E-Type had seen comparatively little action by the time that it appeared in Jaguar Land Rover Classic’s ‘Works Legends’ showrooms with a £249,940 asking price. Purchased by the vendor from its original manufacturer during October 2020, the Coupe joined a Bryan Wingfield C-Type, very early Lynx D-Type and Lister ‘Knobbly’ Continuation as part of the Merlin Collection. Finding the Rob Beere engine to be surprisingly tractable if warmed through properly, the seller reconfigured the ‘Semi Lightweight’ E-Type as a fast road car. Sourcing a second set of magnesium peg drive alloys from RS Panels, he treated the two-seater to new Avon tyres all round and had a bespoke ‘space saver’ alloy spare wheel made. Perspex side and rear windows are still fitted but the car is now fully road legal. Boasting a prodigious power to weight ratio (it was previously weighed at just 1104kg), the Jaguar has sufficient performance to embarrass many a modern sportscar sounding epic in the process. Entrusted to marque specialist CMC of Bridgnorth last year for a thorough overhaul of its four-speed all-synchromesh gearbox, ‘BOG 6’ also had its AP Racing clutch renewed. As clean underneath as it is on top, this exceptionally smart ‘Semi Lightweight’ is worthy of close inspection. Offered for sale with Jaguar Heritage Trust Certificate, FIA HTP (expires 2027), numerous CKL / Brooklands Motorsport / CMC / RS Panels invoices, MOT certificate valid until May 2025, restoration photos and a second set of magnesium ‘peg drive’ alloy wheels.