• Offered from a deceased estate • Just two previous keepers prior to the late owner • A genuine British-market, right-hand drive example fitted with a Borg-Warner automatic gearbox • Subject to extensive restoration work including a complete repaint in 2016 and extensive engine bay restoration at a cost of over £70,000 • Thick history file detailing expenditure, plus many items of literature such as handbooks and a workshop manual SALE ROOM NOTICE – Please note that since arriving on site, this car has sprung a fuel leak.

By 1971, Jaguar’s jaw-dropping E-Type had been in production for a decade.

Despite continual improvements, new emissions legislation in the all-important American market threatened to strangle the big cat’s performance.

Jaguar responded by giving its revered sports car fresh claws in the shape of a 5,343cc V12 developed from the stillborn XJ13 Le Mans project car.

The new engine was both effortlessly powerful and eerily refined.

“The turbine-like smoothness with...