Lot details Registration No: JVY772L Chassis No: 1S2722 Mot Expiry: May 2013
By 1971, Jaguar's jaw-dropping E-Type had been in production for a decade. Despite continual improvements, new emissions legislation in the all-important American market threatened to strangle the big cat's performance. Jaguar responded by giving its revered sports car fresh claws in the shape of a 5343cc V12 developed from the stillborn XJ13 Le Mans project car. The new engine was both effortlessly powerful and eerily refined. "The turbine-like smoothness with which the engine provides a sustained shove in the back is almost uncanny, the more so when one accelerates hard in top gear without even a gearchange to interrupt one's headlong dash into the distance". (Autocar 5th July 1973) With some 272bhp and 304lbft of torque on tap, the Series III E-Type once again had 150mph in its sights. A revised wheelbase yielded better cabin space and together with wider tracks front and rear, new anti-dive front suspension geometry and fatter tyres gave improved road holding. Imbued with a more muscular stance thanks to its flared wheelarches, re-profiled wings and larger grille, it also benefited from vented disc brakes and a restyled interior. Production continued until the model was superseded by the XJS in 1975, by which time some 7,990 Roadsters and 7,297 Fixed Head Coupes are thought to have been made.
The right-hand drive, home market Series 3 E-Type offered is a 1974 manual transmission Roadster that sports White bodywork contrasted by Black leather upholstery. The vendor informs us it benefited from an early restoration and has recently been equipped with a new hood and carpet. The seats have also been reupholstered and money invested on the electrical system. He says the Jaguar has been regularly maintained and has "excellent" interior trim, "very good" bodywork, paintwork and gearbox and "good" V12 engine. `JVY 772L' comes complete with six months' tax and MOT.
PLEASE NOTE: This vehicle has an MOT until May 2013.
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