1973 JAGUAR V-12 E TYPE COUPE -23,000 ORIGINAL

Description for Jaguar E-Type 1973

This E Type V-12 is looking young at 43 years old. I sold a twin E-Type V-12 OTS and a Mark II Jaguar a few years ago. This is my last Jaguar and it needs a good home.

My E Type V-12 has 23,000 original miles. When not on the road it has been stored in a subterranean cave in Missouri with 60 degrees and 60% humidity ambient surroundings- year-round. (Google Innerspace in Missouri) This great example is now looking for a new custodian of history.

In March 2008, 34 years after the last E Type was made the Daily Telegraph named the E-Type as the top of the list of the most beautiful cars ever made, receiving four times as many votes as any other car. Listed by the Daily Spikes, #6 on the list as one of the best cars to invest in and it also suggested there might only be about 6000 E Type left in the world today. This is consistent with the famous quote of Enzo Ferrari as “…it is the most beautiful car ever made…”.

The car had a down to the metal professional respray in, just before I bought the car from an officer of the Atlanta Jaguar club, 19,000 miles on the ODO (about 4,000 miles ago). The respray was about $15,000 and as you can see is the attention grabbing original Regency Red. It is a gorgeous journeyman result. I just waxed it yesterday. The new interior and headliner is in Camel color. I think this is one of the cleanest V-12 E type on the market that I have seen come up for sale. Prices will likely only climb further. Equipped with chrome luster wire wheels great tread on tires, ready to drive and enjoy, show or driver.

Only 14,983 V-12’s models were ever made and are the most sought after of the E-Types in my opinion. Only 7,310 Series III E Types were ever produced. How many are left and in this condition, is hard to say.

Colloquially dubbed the cat with 12 paws, it handles as if it were on rails. The purchase includes numerous books articles, portfolios, period articles and original ad material.

History has shown the E-Type so advanced in mechanical and aerodynamic fields that it rightly spawned books about the E-type as a portrait of a design icon.

Starting in 1971 there was only the 105 inch wheelbase Coupe or the OTS Roadster. The track was 4 inches wider at the front and three inches at the rear. The price went up 20% for the V-12 over the straight 6 XJ motor. The Coventry publicity machine referred to the V-12 as “a Ferrari at half the price. Perhaps shy of the lawyers and the Prancing Horse, in fact a Jaguar was about 1/3 the price of a Ferrari.

There is a reason the Museum of Modern Art has had an E-Type on prominent display since 1996. It truly is one of the most beautiful car designs in history. No great car collection would be complete without an E Type.

One of the few indulgences to modernity is a rocking Alpine Stereo (CD Bluetooth, AM FM, etc.) and Speakers, very professionally installed. The 6 X 9’s are plug out removable and sit in the luggage area.

Serious interest by serious buyers only please, no tire kickers or lo ballers will save all a lot of time. Possible trade for low mileage 2006 or newer Porsche or newer yet (2014) BMW 335 I convertible.