LJ225 Shelley Jack

[Pav]

I am helping a lady correctly list her early LJ225 jack. Everything looks to be correct. Someone has welded a U bracket on top of it! I was going to get it removed for her but thought I best leave that for someone to do during restoration.

I am confused by the prefix on it. It looks like it could be 59 or 69. It’s impossible to distinguish. Could it be either?

Any estimation for her to sell at? She had it listed on eBay but advised her to correct auction as a lot of people will be interested.

[Heuer]

More info here: viewtopic.php?p=34968#p34968

The number is '59' which means it is one of the earliest and supplied with cars up to about May 1961 which makes it very rare. Whether tat will translate to a higher price is debatable as it will only be correct for the first 100 or so Outside Bonnet Lock cars. It would be ideal for this car: https://www.joemacari.com/stock/jaguar- ... p/10005131 as it has the wrong jack despite the asking price!

Shelley jacks used to go for about £1,200 but a vendor owns the original moulds so is making copies for about £600 last time I looked. They are dangerous to use and can easily punch a hole in the car sill.

Leave the bracket for someone else to remove although repro heads are available.

[wagstefan]

Never seen an original one. I do have some without date, some with 61, but never a 59 one....

There are also some opinions, that this early jack was supplied with almost all OBL cars. But I tend to agree that it was only supplied to the first 100more or less cars.

Moreover with all E-Type parts, you easily could also argue that remaining ones might have been supplied to later cars. So the jack is imho suitable for all 61cars.

As the condition is very nice with a nice original patina (original paint almost fully remaining - cannot remember to ever have seen any Shelley LJ225 jack for E-Types in such a good condition), which you rarely find as well as being a very very rare 59 version, I estimate that it deserves a surplus in value. But it all depends on what people are prepared to pay....

Good luck!

[wagstefan]

Sold to Central Europe for GBP 2000,- plus all the tax fees and custom duties. So ended up at close to 3300,- Euros.

Wow!