2025-10-23 15:08:26 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 12/25

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-1964-jaguar-e-type-38-coup/

Auction description:

3rd Dec, 2025 The Millbrook Sale | Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire

1964 Jaguar E-Type 3.8 Coupé

Highly original garage find example with just two private owners

Estimate £20,000 - £30,000

Registration No: LKE 559B

Chassis No: 861673

MOT: Exempt

1 of just 1,799 RHD 3.8 Fixed Head Coupés manufactured

In the ownership of just two families from new, 1964-2008 and 2008-present

Garage-find example, having been in the vendor's garage since 2008, and previous dry storage from c.1990

Notably original example; a very special restoration opportunity

Understood to be matching numbers throughout

We are pleased to offer an extremely original example, albeit one which is in need of sympathetic restoration. Originally carrying the attractive registration ‘TDY 1’ (the rear plate is still attached), it is thought to have resided from new in Leicestershire, and has remarkably been in the ownership of just two families from new. Following the first owner’s death in the mid-1980s, his widow continued to maintain the Jaguar until 1990, at which point it was placed into dry storage and did not emerge until it was sold to the vendor in 2008 viâ E-Type UK. Despite his best intentions, the new owner never found time to attend to it himself and it remained in his garage all the while, hence it is now for sale with the hope that somebody will return it to its former glory.

We are of the understanding that the E-type is complete with matching-numbers assemblies and has never even been taken apart to any significant degree. The MOT records testify that the mileage reading of 74,698 miles is genuine, the interior looks especially original, and the factory-supplied toolkit and jack are present. As it is, it represents an excellent restoration opportunity which would be ideal for an experienced amateur or even an enthusiastic first-timer. It will obviously require both mechanical and bodywork repairs, but the interior appears so well-preserved that the philosophy of conservation over restoration may perhaps be favoured. Paperwork includes the current V5C and several MOT certificates and maintenance invoices up to 1990.

Sold for £27,000