• Delivered new to California, USA • Long-term single-family ownership in the USA • Left-hand drive • Automatic transmission • Present ownership since 2014 (it is believed) Testing the E-Type Series III back in 1972, Road & Track magazine reckoned the new V12 power unit, "a sheer delight, by itself almost worth the price of admission.

The V12 is a lovely piece of machinery, lovely to listen to and lovely to behold...

The idle is smooth and quiet with none of the mechanical busyness one normally experiences from the likes of a Ferrari or Lamborghini V12.

And the smoothness lingers throughout the rev range".

This superior refinement would have counted for little had the Series 3 proved slower than its predecessors, but the new V12 engine was more than powerful enough to offset the weight gain over the preceding 4.2-litre XK six and ensure that performance was undiminished.

Weighing only 80lb more than the cast-iron-block six that it replaced, the all-alloy, 5.3-litre, overhead-camsh...