2025-04-28 17:00:34 | pauls writes:

Car at auction 5/25

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-1968-jaguar-e-type-42-coupe/

Auction description:

Pavilion Gardens | Buxton, Derbyshire, 21st May, 2025

1968 Jaguar E-Type 4.2 Coupe

One of just 1,071 RHD S2 FHCs made

Estimate £45,000 - £55,000

Registration No: LNF 804G

Chassis No: 1R20559

MOT: Exempt

One of just 1,071 RHD Series II Fixed Head Coupes made

Notably early Series II E-Type, registered just two months into production

In current ownership for twenty-four years

Highly desirable 'home market' example

Chassis number ‘1R20059’ is one of just 1,071 ‘home market’ Series II Fixed Head Coupes manufactured, having been registered new on the 10th of December 1968. A notably early Series II E-Type having been registered new just two months into production, the E-Type has the preferred manual transmission and is finished in White paintwork with Black leather interior upholstery. In previous ownership from 1988 until 2001, during this period, the E-Type is understood to have been supplied with a full restoration. Acquired by the vendor as a restored example in 2001, it has been retained by him ever since. Benefitting from a full engine overhaul shortly after the vendor's purchase, at some 55,800 recorded miles, the E-Type has only subsequently completed a further 4,000 miles over the following twenty-four years!

Serviced and MOT tested annually throughout the vendor's ownership, the E-Type has seen excursions on JEC events including the Silverstone E-Type Anniversary event. More recently receiving a new electronic ignition system in 2018 and improvements to the paintwork in 2020, ‘LNF 804G’ has received a service and new battery in April 2025 in preparation for the sale, as well as receiving an MOT until April 2026. Offered with a collection of invoices and previous MOT certificates, the E-Type is on offer for just the second time in nearly four decades to the market. UK-supplied, manual gearbox examples are highly desirable E-Types and with this Series II Fixed Head Coupe being both of these things, is certainly one to consider.

PLEASE NOTE: The DVLA has the chassis number incorrectly registered with them as (1R20559), one digit incorrect.