1970/2005 Suffolk SS100 Evocation

Lot details
Registration No: VAT850H
Chassis No: 1L8589BN
Mot Expiry: May 2018

- Built by a professional engineer between 2000 and c.2005

- GRP body with XJ6 4.2 engine, silver with blue interior & hood

- From a deceased estate, just c.600 miles since build

Among the first of William Lyons' creations to utilise the Jaguar name, the SS Jaguar 100 entered pre-production in October 1935. Dynamically honed by chief engineer William Heynes and marketed as being `primarily intended for competition work and sufficiently tractable as a fast tourer without modification', the first Jaguar sports car enjoyed a successful racing / rallying career and is now extremely sought after by collectors. It is perhaps no surprise that such an iconic design would be imitated using more modern mechanicals and examples produced by Suffolk Engineering are amongst the best available.

Correspondence and invoices in the accompanying history file from Suffolk detail the ordering and build of VAT 850H between 2000 and 2005. Constructed by a professional engineer who had been a development engineer at Marcos in the 1960s, it has seen little use since completion (including outings on the Mendip Rally) and now registers just some 633 miles. Utilising a 1970 Jaguar 4.2 XJ6 as a donor vehicle, whose identity it retains on the V5C document, the car is being reluctantly offered for sale by the family of the late-owner who was a keen Jaguar collector. Finished strikingly in silver with blue leather and blue carpet, the paintwork has some micro-blistering in areas although we feel the car could easily be enjoyed 'as is'. Benefiting from a recent mechanical check over this GRP-bodied evocation of one of the most beautiful pre-War designs has manual overdrive transmission and comes with its original build manual, sundry invoices and correspondence, Jaguar SS sales brochure, framed pencil drawing of the car by a local artist and current MoT.