Highlights Desirable early Series 1 FHC Full matching numbers, Jaguar Heritage certified 3.8-litre straight-six, manual transmission 61,651 miles on the clock 1 of 1,798 examples built in RHD Overview Long revered as the most beautiful car ever made, the E-Type is one of the most sought after and collectible automobiles in the world.

Naturally, laying your hands on a pristine example of a Series 1 car (the one everyone wants), is not only very tricky, but potentially financially ruinous.

And once you’ve sourced a pristine, concours condition car, what are you supposed to do with it? You can’t use it in anything except glorious, dry weather and you can only add a few miles a year to it - lest you inadvertently wipe away most of its value.

However, here at Pistonheads, we believe that cars are for driving, not just for staring at as they sit in an air-conditioned cocoon.

So, if we were going to buy an early series 1 E-Type, we’d want a nice, clean, solid example that had a few miles ...