Registration No: KGE 86L Chassis No: UD1S23062BW MOT: Exempt

Finished in Primrose Yellow complemented to a black interior
Equipped with power steering, and automatic transmission
An export example and subsequently converted to RHD
Understood to have been in long-term single-family ownership in the USA

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 car.

The new engine was both effortlessly powerful and eerily refined.

“The turbine-like smoothness with which the engine provides a sustained shove in the back is almost uncanny, the more so when one accelerates hard in top gear without even a gearchange to interrupt one’s headlong dash into the distance,” said Autocar on July 5th, 19...