1963 Jaguar E-Type Roadster

879718roadUnited Kingdom

Engine: 3.8L DOHC inline-six, ~265 bhp
Colour: Primrose Yellow

A 1963 Jaguar E-Type roadster, one of just 2,023 open two-seaters built that year, dispatched to the United States on 4 July 1963 and delivered to its first owner in New York. The car retains its original matching-numbers inline six-cylinder engine and was comprehensively restored in the 1990s, completed in 1999 in factory Primrose Yellow with brown leather and tan soft-top. It is accompanied by a Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust certificate confirming its dispatch date.

Ownership

—Auction sale
Sold US$137,500
RM Sotheby's catalogue lot →
1963 →Factory delivery
J.P. Small
full documentation
First registered owner, based in New York; delivery to the US documented via Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust certificate dated 4 July 1963.
Date unknown
Private collector from the 1990s
partial documentation
Commissioned a thorough restoration finished in 1999, with the car refinished in original Primrose Yellow over brown leather interior.
Date unknownAcquisition unknown
Current vendor
partial documentation
Acquired the car after the 1999 restoration; reported to have maintained it in excellent cosmetic and mechanical condition with original matching-numbers engine.

Competition

No competition history extracted from the catalogue.

Maintenance & restoration

1999
Restoration
Full restoration completed to a high standard, with bodywork refinished in factory Primrose Yellow; interior appointed in brown leather with a tan soft-top, and chrome wire wheels fitted with blackwall tyres.
Work was initiated during the 1990s and brought to completion in 1999; the original matching-numbers engine was retained throughout.

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