2025-04-03 22:29:43 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 4/25

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/110-1971-jaguar-e-type-v12-coupe/

Auction description:

1971 Jaguar E-Type V12 Coupe

Estimate £30,000 - £35,000

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

Lot 110

Desirable UK-supplied, RHD, manual gearbox example

Estimate £30,000 - £35,000

Registration No: FTE 871J

Chassis No: 1S50171

MOT: Exempt

1 of just 2,116 right-hand drive examples and a desirable manual gearbox car

Matching chassis and engine numbers

Current ownership since 2016 and 62,600 recorded miles

Offered with a history file including the Jaguar Heritage Certificate

Chassis number ‘1S50171’ was manufactured on the 20th April 1971, being supplied new via Henlys of Manchester to the department store Littlewoods Ltd. Finished from the factory in Light Blue paintwork with Dark Blue leather interior upholstery, this is pleasingly the colour scheme in which the E-Type remains presented in today. Desirable for being both a manual gearbox car and a matching numbers example, ‘FTE 871J’ is known to have spent a period of time in the car friendly climate of the continent, including in Belgium and the Netherlands. Repatriated to the United Kingdom in 2015, the 2+2 was purchased by the vendor in 2016, remaining in his ownership ever since. Lavished with some £9,500 worth of expenditure with Jaguar Classic in 2017, the work completed included a new windscreen; new suspension bushes; rectification of several oil leaks; attention to the cooling system; and extensive smaller jobs.

Offered with a credible recorded mileage of 62,600 miles on the odometer, the E-Type is accompanied by a history file comprising the JHT Heritage Certificate, a collection of invoices including the invoice for works completed by Jaguar Classic, and a current V5C document. Residing in storage for several years, the Jaguar is due to be supplied with a re-commissioning service in time for the sale. UK-supplied, manual gearbox, matching numbers examples are highly desirable E-Types and with this V12 Coupe being all of these, and presented in its original colour scheme, is certainly one to consider.