2004-09-14 20:46:31 | pauls writes:

Car was offered, not sold, at auction in '03
www.motorbase.com/auctionlot/by-id/689191099/

Auction description:
Jaguar E-Type SIII V12 (1973)
Lot Details
Auction Important Collectors' Motor Cars
Bonhams & Butterfields, Quail Lodge, Carmel
Type Car
Lot Number 564
Estimate £38000-£45000
Hammer Price -
Hammer Price (inc premium) -
Year 1973
Condition rating 2
Registration number
Mileage -
Chassis number UD1521254

2004-10-03 11:36:42 | pauls writes:

Additional info from above auction:
1973 Jaguar E-Type Roadster~
Chassis no. UD1521254

The distinguished career of the E-Type Jaguar reached a crescendo when it was endowed with Jaguar’s magnificent new 5.3-Liter V12 engine in 1971. By the time production ended in 1974, over 15,000 V12 E-Types had been constructed.

Built on the longer wheelbase of the 2+2 E-Type, the V12 E-Type had flared wheelarches to accommodate larger tires and wider track, and was the first quantity production V12 since the 1948 Lincoln! The Roadster proved marginally more popular than the 2+2 Coupe, with overall sales totaling 7,990 against 7,300, and while the 2+2 was withdrawn from production in September 1973, the Roadster continued to be produced until February 1975.


The 5.3-Liter V12 engine was designed and developed by two of Britain’s finest automotive engineers, Walter Hassan (late of Bentley Motors) and Harry Mundy (ex-BRM). It was a simplified version of a 502 Bhp 4-cam unit that had been designed in expectation of a return to the Le Mans 24-Hour race in the 1960s. In the Series III E-Type the V12 effortlessly set new standards for the silky delivery of quiet, refined, high-performing horsepower.

"These cars kept the E-Type magic alive and the last of them, built in 1974, were being sold well into 1975, eulogized marque authority the late Andrew Whyte in his "Jaguar; The History of a Great British Car". The magazine "Classic & Sportscar" was equally emphatic, declaring that the V12 E-Type was "collectible from the moment the last one left Coventry"