UPDATE 01/26/2024:When a classic falls within a certain price range, it isn’t uncommon for a seller not to taste success on their first attempt to find it a new home. Such has been the case with this 1965 Jaguar E-Type Roadster. It attracted frantic bidding during its previous auction...
Bonnet badges on the side of the bonnet (actually on the wings) were only on Series II XK E types that were 1971 model year. They may have also been on 1971 Series III cars. I have been told this detail was added to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the E type...and was not...
because it would have a bigger price tag, even as a project, and the clone is of a long-nose example. I’m guessing this one is fiberglass. Here’s a kit with a fiberglass bodyfor sale in Australia, so they do exist. I’m sure there are Barnfinds.com readers...
Chassis number XKD 501 was the first D-Type production for a private team, sold to the Scottish racing team Ecurie Ecosse, and dispatched on 5 May 1955. A principal factory customer, Ecurie Ecosse was founded in 1951 and successfully ran C-Types through the early 1950s before eventually pu...