1962 Jaguar E Type S1 3.8 FHC "Flat Floor" UK RHD 48 Year Ownersh For Sale

This is not just any old E-Type.

This is a Series 1 3. 8 FHC ‘flat floor’.

It’s number 168 of the 72, 515 E-Types ever made.

It’s one of only 631 RHD ‘flat floors’ ever made.

It’s got matching engine and chassis numbers.

And it’s had one owner for nearly 50 years.

This is the sort of thing that people dream of finding under some bales of straw and a few sleepy chickens in an abandoned barn.

Only this isn’t a barn find.

It’s far, far better than that. It’s just been garaged and unused for about 20 years.

I bought the car from the wife of the man who’d owned it for almost half a century. He was also a Jaguar enthusiastic, was mechanically very skilled and had a garage full of Jaguar bits and pieces.

In our opinion, the car’s current shabbiness is little more than skin deep. There is no rot anywhere that we can see, it seems to have a great deal of structural integrity and, although we haven’t run the engine, we know it isn’t seized and can’t think of any reason why a bit of expert TLC wouldn’t get it up and running again without too much fuss. ( I can get it running if required )

This is a fabulous project car. It’s one the most sought after iterations of a true automotive icon. We think any flaws are largely cosmetic, and it’s a good, solid base from which to begin the process of creating something really very special indeed.

Eagle-eyed E-Type aficionados among you will have spotted that it has a Series 2 bonnet.

Yes it does. We don’t know why.

A quick look at the footwells will have you saying, “Hang on a minute, you duplicitous bounders, didn’t you say it was a Flat Floor?”

Well, yes, we did. Because it is.
But somebody has replaced the flat panels with dropped versions. The reason could be as simple as needing the space to accommodate feet larger than about size 6½.
The Flat Floor models were famously unforgiving of the larger-footed driver.
“So”, we hear you ask, “how do you know it’s a Flat Floor if it hasn’t got flat floors?”
Because of the date of manufacture. That and the fact that the bulkhead behind the seats is the flat, non-scalloped version that came with the Flat Floor models.
And you really can’t fake that.

The black paintwork is peeling, flaking, scuffed and, in some places, just missing. Underneath, though, there is nothing more worrying than entirely superficial surface rust.

The panels are largely free of any dinks, dents, warps, folds or creases. The rear door is in decent condition and has escaped the attentions of any meaningful rust.

All five wheels are in reasonable nick. The n/ s/ r light cluster is missing.

It’s all a bit dusty and care worn, but it’s certainly no basket case and we haven’t seen anything that would raise either an alarm or an eyebrow.

Thank You

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