2005-06-16 09:25:55 | pauls writes:

Car offered, not sold, at auction 6/05
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Auction description:
Lot Number 43
Sale Number 7051
Lot Title 14,285 miles from new
Estimate 65,000 - 80,000 British pounds
Price Realized Unsold
1974 JAGUAR E-TYPE SERIES III V12 ROADSTER COMMEMORATIVE

Registration No. KTW 434N
Chassis No. 1S 2829
Engine No. 7S 15854 SA
Black with biscuit leather interior

Engine: V12, single overhead camshaft per bank, 5,343cc; Gearbox: four speed manual; Brakes: four wheel disc, servo assisted; Suspension: independent all round. Right hand drive.

This car is one of the special series of 50 right hand drive cars built to signify the conclusion of manufacture of the E-Type.

James Hull's Commemorative E Type was the 29th of the 50 to have been built, of which only 49 were sold, the company keeping the final car.

It was sold new to Michael Tebb, a music publishing and record company owner, and its collection by him was the culmination of a 6 year wait to acquire a black E Type with a beige interior. He registered the car new with the distinctive number plate 'SPY 80'. In February 1975, Jaguar Cars wrote to Mr Tebb detailing the end of the E Type production and providing him with the commemorative brass plaque. Shortly after this he had the car Zeibart protected in Bradford, at 1,126 miles.

Mr Tebb kept the car until 1987, by which time its mileage was in the region of 11,500, and he sold it to Michael Brown of Leeds, who in turn promptly sold it to Philip Barton-Wright. A year later it was sold to Aidan Bristow of Reading who sold the car to James Hull in May 1996. To date of cataloguing the car has covered a mere 14,285 miles from new.

An immaculate and fully documented example it is offered for sale for the first time ever publicly.