Toby Ross' short lecture on E-types

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Buying an E type is like buying a scratch card. You don’t know what’s underneath. How often have connoisseurs walked around a ‘restored’ car and been horrified by the fit of doors and bonnet? If you stripped the car back to bare metal, how many botched repairs will you find? This car has two previous owners, both in Texas.

Toby Ross writes us: " I have owned several E-types and know them quite well.  In  fact I nearly never owned them for trading. This example is an exception. It loos scruffy but it doesn't hide anything. The floors and boot are rock solid. Panel fit is perfect. Some rust to the bottom of doors and rear bottom of the bonnet, but nothing dramatic, so the perfect panel fit will remain. The car has been off the road since 1998. The engine turns, but I have not tried to start it. There is a Heritage certificate confirming the very rare original black paint, and the car is matching numbers. No service history, but official documents confirming ownership. I see no reason why the indicated 68,000 miles would not be correct. The car is fitted with air conditioning, probably installed when new. Useful but quirky! I bought this car with the idea of doing the mechanics, but leaving the paint alone, simply applying a coat of satin varnish to stop rust. It would be the ultimate ‘Rat Rod’. But the purchase of a historic apartment in Valletta (Malta),  needing full restoration, means that the Jag has to go."

Thanks for the lecture Toby! After studying the pictures of historic Valetta it is totally clear to us that when living there you must be an expert in 'panel fit'.  

(photos Toby Ross)


    

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