3.8 Jaguar E-Type | |||||
Open Two Seater | |||||
Left Hand Drive | |||||
R1175-9 | |||||
R1223 | |||||
EB280JS | |||||
29 June 1961 | United States | ||||
1961 | Carmen Red | ||||
2020 | Black | ||||
Rest: Nice | Black | ||||
Original | Bicester | ||||
Oxfordshire | |||||
Original |
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60NEE61E | ZH17564 |
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Record Creation: Entered on 1 March 2019.
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2012-05-21 13:41:47 | XKE Data writes:
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2020-10-10 20:08:58 | XKE Data writes:
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2004-01-23 10:30:53 | pauls writes:
Info gathered with permission from:
www.hendi.nl/xke/main.htm
875151 was located in North Carolina in 1979. At that time it still had its original engine, and chrome wire wheels. It had spent 12 years in storage, and had been dipped and stripped, and 't was planned at that time to be painted red. The seats were to be re-done at Bassetts. It had about 44,000 miles, and was last on the road in 1966.
2004-04-19 07:43:55 | pauls writes:
Tom Haddock (E-type restoration guide author) writes in the July '80 issue of Ejag magazine that this car has been added to his register of early cars.
2005-07-18 09:34:25 | Anonymous writes:
Car was seen in Switzerland in 2005 at xke Meeting. Current color red, looking great.
2005-09-12 04:51:21 | Lofty writes:
www.hendi.nl writes:
CHASSIS: 875151
NOTES: 875151 was located in North Carolina in 1979. At that time it still had its original engine, and chrome wire wheels. It had spent 12 years in storage, and had been dipped and stripped, and 't was planned at that time to be painted red. The seats were to be re-done at Bassetts. It had about 44,000 miles, and was last on the road in 1966.
2011-08-17 01:01:02 | Roger writes:
Rec'd the following text: "used two own 875151 bought in california was 1st e in southern cal i drove 2 new york and shiped 2 uk . was black."
2012-05-17 13:24:14 | Roger Styles writes:
Actually this car was the first e-type sent to northan california, it was my car. Reg was 60NEE 61E. It was originally black with black interior. I bought it in LA and drove it across America. Can tell you more if you are interested
2019-03-01 10:51:23 | pauls writes:
Car now offered at:
pendine.com/portfolio/1961-jaguar-e-type-series-i-roadster/
Seller's description:
An original Outside Bonnet Lock Roadster, the 151st built
The 12th Roadster in the USA
Matching numbers, including original bonnet
A Jaguar E-type roadster in its pure, original form is something very special – an automotive icon. This one, supplied new to Jaguar Cars in New York, is only the 165th produced, and the 151st roadster with left-hand drive. An audit of the earliest known E-types published in 1991 by Dr Thomas Haddock, a leading expert on the cars, found the car – chassis 875151 – to be one of the oldest E-types then surviving in the USA.
It retains all the important attributes of a very early E-type: flat footwell floors, bonnet locks secured with a T-key, welded-in bonnet louvres made from separate metal pieces, a double-hinged boot lid and wing baffles spot-welded inside the bonnet.
One point that marks it out is that although it’s had a colour change, it’s never really been fully restored, and the original bonnet is still neatly in place with body stampings that match those on the rest of the car. It’s a testimony to the meticulous long-time owner James F. King III of Library, Pennsylvania between 1977 and about 1990.
At that point it was bought by its current owner, sight-unseen from a dealer in Florida. Having been told to expect a car that was 98% perfect, what he received was 85% at best…..
The Jaguar’s authenticity, though, compensated for some older repairs that were less than professional. The issues were methodically fixed including having the engine completely overhauled, entrusting the engine work to Mollet Zylinderschleifwerk AG of Dulliken, Switzerland. Hardened valve seats, a stainless-steel exhaust system and a new radiator were fitted for similar reasons of making the car a worry-free everyday pleasure.
Its presence was specifically requested by the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust at the 40th anniversary celebration of the E-type in Geneva in 2001. And if you have a sneaking feeling that you’ve seen the car before and you possess a copy of the excellent book Auto Legends by Robert Cumberford and Michel Zumbrunn, then you’re right; it graces the title page.