Few cars in motoring history can match the impact Jaguar’s E-Type made when it debuted at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1961.

It looked like nothing else on the road and, with a genuine 150 mph top speed, it went like nothing else either.

The earliest production cars, those built during 1961, are now regarded as the most coveted of all.

Collectors value their purity of design and their numerous distinctive features.

Among the most significant of these early traits is the non-recessed flat-floor and other hallmark details included outside bonnet locks, welded bonnet louvres, and various fittings that identify these first cars from the later production run.

Even where those external bonnet locks were superseded around chassis #91, as here, the tell-tale mounting points within the sills occasionally remain, a detail frequently lost when later-pattern sills are fitted during restoration.

Offered here at the NEC Classic Motor Show 2025 is chassis #121, a superbly presented, UK-suppli...