2017-06-12 19:33:32 | pauls writes:

Car offered at:
chico.craigslist.org/cto/6146620484.html

Sellers description:
XKE Jaguar 1970 coupe - $25000.
Only 39,000 miles from new, This is a NO RUST matching number car that has never been wrecked. It has been stored inside from 1973 until now and has never been registered in Calif. The car is from Az. It is a factory air condition car with a six cylinder overhead cam motor and a standard 4 speed. The motor and transmission are out of the car and the motor is apart so that the new buyer can inspect all parts.I have a brand new set of pistons and barrels, new cams and bearing and a new fuel pump.The head and valves look good, I also have a extra rebuilt head that will go with the car and two extra new cams. the inside of the car looks good but will need both seats redone and new carpets and a new dash pad.The only things that are missing are the grille bar, the stainless around the rear window and the exhaust system. I have a lot of extra new parts that will go with the car , I NOW DO NOT HAVE THE TIME OR SPACE TO WORK ON SUCH A PROJECT.

2017-12-18 14:04:27 | Harry Stevens writes:

Imported into the United Kingdom from the United States and sold by Piston Empire of Halstead in November 2017.
www.pistonempire.com/solds/1970-barn-find-s2-e-type-jaguar-coupe

Previously listed on Race Cars Direct. Seller's description below.
www.racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/84903/1970-e-type-s2-barn-find

In 1974 the lady who owned the car was driving to Northern California when she drove into a sandstorm that was so violent it etched the windscreen. When she got to her boyfriend they changed the windscreen and the local garage sprayed the car as a lot of paint had been taken off. It went into a barn and stayed there for over forty years until a local vet discovered her, behind a partition that was built around the car; that was two years ago.

The body is immaculate with no rust, dents, nothing whatsoever. It can go straight to paint. The interior is fine except for the seats and dash that have deteriorated over the years. The vet took the engine out as it had frozen, the odometer shows 39,000 miles. He has bought new pistons, liners, etc for the rebuild. Gearbox is fine and everything else is still with the car. The chrome will polish up as new. The only thing that isn't there is the steel exhaust as he was going to fit a stainless steel one.

The car has left San Francisco and will be here 14 September. It will be sold with current California title and with all import taxes paid.

2025-04-08 21:19:28 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 4/25

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/96-1970-jaguar-e-type-42-litre-coupe/

Auction description:

1970 Jaguar E-Type 4.2 Coupe

Estimate £50,000 - £60,000 (results awaited)

H&H Classics - Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK, 9 April, 2025

Lot 96

Recently completed exhaustive, 2,500-hour restoration

Estimate £50,000 - £60,000

Registration No: BHY 906H

Chassis No: 1R27431

MOT: March 2026

Treated to an exhaustive, 2,500-hour restoration by the vendor, a Licensed Aircraft Engineer, in 2022

Invoices on file totalling c.£30,000 for replacement parts and specialist services alone

Presents beautifully having covered just 1,000 post-refurbishment miles

Matching numbers example

Accompanied by a hardback book which pictorially documents every stage of the restoration in detail

Offered with a history file including the Jaguar Heritage Certificate

Factory finished in Regency Red with Beige leather upholstery, the same combination it pleasingly sports today, chassis ‘1R27431’ was dispatched from Browns Lane to distributor British Leyland, New York on 12th February 1970. Spending its early life in Arizona (with the corresponding registration plates remaining on file), the E-Type is reputed to suffered sandstorm damage whilst being driven to Northern California in 1974. Despite the paintwork being refreshed and a new windscreen fitted, the E-Type was placed into storage where it remained for the subsequent c.40 years. Re-discovered in 2014, the E-Type was repatriated to the United Kingdom in 2019 and shortly after acquired by the vendor, a licensed aircraft engineer, having been advertised as a "never been welded" example with a recorded mileage of 39,000.

The vendor reports that the engine was running (albeit poorly), and the clutch release bearing had failed. Transported to his aircraft engineering facility, a comprehensive assessment of the car's condition was carried out, and remarkably, the seller informs us that no evidence of repaired corrosion was found anywhere in the body-shell or doors, with all the floor and footwell panels being original. The only perforations discovered were two small areas on the edge of both footwells with repairs grafted in. The shell was sent to RP Automotive for a full bare metal repaint, with the engine frames bead blasted, primed and painted in their original colour before re-fitting. All frame mounting points on the bulkhead were inspected and deemed completely corrosion-free.

When the repaint was completed all box sections and closed panels including doors were injected with aviation anti-corrosion fluid and, although the original underseal was revealed to be almost entirely in excellent condition, a coat of Raptor two-pack bed liner was added to the car's underside. A new wiring loom to the original specification was installed and the Jaguar converted to right-hand drive including a new steering rack, with windscreen wipers also converted to UK-specification. The factory-fitted engine was entrusted to Scholar Engineering of Diss where it benefited from a re-ground crankshaft, new cylinder liners, new oil pump, modified rear crank seal, new timing chains and tensioners, core plugs, and much more. The cylinder head overhaul included hardened valve seats, new camshaft buckets, bearings, and pressure testing, etc, with the block and head being lightly skimmed. A new water pump, thermostat, rejuvenated starter and alternator, spin-on oil filter conversion, a new inlet manifold, and new triple SU carburettors were all fitted, as well as uprated Acu-Spark electronic ignition.

The gearbox internals were inspected and judged to be in good condition, with the input and output shaft seals and speedo drive gear renewed. Further provided with a new stainless steel exhaust system, the suspension was inspected and refreshed with four new shock absorbers and springs, four driveshaft and prop shaft UJs replaced, and the front suspension components removed, bead blasted, and re-painted. The wheel bearings, anti-roll bar bushes, and handbrake pads were all renewed too. The independent rear suspension cradle was re-fitted with new trailing arm bushes and mountings. The brake system was provided with a full overhaul including a new master cylinder and servo unit, new stainless steel calliper pistons, seals, brake pads and four new discs, as well as new flexible hoses together with copper-based hard lines fitted front and rear. Finally, four new spoked chrome wire wheels, spinners and tyres were installed.

A complete interior re-trim was carried out by Howard Sands of Stonham Suffolk, with the excellent upholstery and fittings supplied by Aldridges Coventry Ltd made to original Jaguar specification and materials. The restoration encompassed extensive further new parts, with some of the notable ones including an overhauled heater system, new windscreen washer assembly, new radio console/fascia with period Radiomobile push button radio, and much more!

With invoices on file for c.£30,000 in parts and specialist services alone, the aircraft engineer vendor has devoted some 2,500 hours to the exhaustive project, with the end product being an excellently presented example, above and beyond many restorations. A matching numbers example, chassis ‘1R27431’ is accompanied to the sale by a large history file that includes a hardback book which documents pictorially every stage of the restoration in detail, the Jaguar Heritage Certificate, aforementioned restoration invoices, and a current V5C document. Completing just 1,000 post-restoration miles so now showing a believed genuine 40,000 miles on the odometer, the vendor also comments that the engine and gearbox wear levels when stripped were indicative of the mileage being genuine. Starting readily and both running and driving well during our recent photography session, this notably nicely restored E-Type is not one to overlook if you are in the market for an excellently restored example. This lot is offered with a no advisory MOT certificate until March 2026.