Thoughts a '65 FHC 4.2 that was built buy the Jaguar competition factory for the Australian importer Brysons. Car di a few meetings before the owner was killed driving a road car to a 12 hour race his E-type was to race in. Total orginal condition 50,000 odd thousand miles, never crashed or restored. Runs 6 inch comp wheels,lightweight suspension,alloy bonnet,lwt brakes,instruments lwt. The car has a very nice breathed over motor with lumpy Erskin factory cams. What sought of premium over a similar standard car? Yout thoughts?
Need pics & more info I heard of an E low drag coupe that I believe started as a roadster w a new hartop on it & an alloy body. Went for pretty good $ at auction a few years ago
As I'm sure you know, the "factory built competition car" and "semi lightweight" labels get applied to lots of tired old race cars of all manufactures. From a thread last summer that you and I both posted on, here is a pristine car that also carried the "factory built competition car" label. Was bid to $220K for a no sale, so the owner was clearly hoping for a much bigger fraction of the value of a documented factory race car. http://www.rmauctions.com/CarDetails.cfm?SaleCode=AZ10&CarID=r556&Currency=USD Without clear documentation, either correspondence or a Daimler Jaguar Heritage Trust certificate showing the unique history, you may be looking at a used-up race car, no?
Not at all the car is well documented in Australia and known by all.It was built for Hugh Bryson son the the importers of Jaguar.Been written up in several books/mags.
Documented and no race history, these easily trade for $120-140k private sale so that's double what a restored S1 E-Type would go for. Higher if the LWC has history, $200-250k is a fair value in this market. There was a low mileage one, never raced, that popped up in CA in 2008 that was left by the owner to his granddaughter. She was going to trade it in to a dealer for a modern XJ before someone took her aside and explained what she had and to put in a bubble. Not sure if it traded hands privately, but I could ask what happened to it if they didn't sell it.
Hmm, I've seen restored S1 E-Types for $100K - no big deal, but $60-70K is probably a 2 or 3 car. My S1 Coupe is a 3 to 4, and I know I could pull $40-45. FWIW.
In Australia a restored 4.2 fhc series one about 100k aust same model but orginal and with good history say 80k
