E-Type major price correction expected?!

[christopher storey]

Yes, standard drain hole on both 29 and 30

[tinworm]

The red FHC (chassis number 861674 ) looks like a car that has never been totally dismantled and as such could be quite an original car .
The body needs an extensive rebuild with new doors, sills, floors, and boot floor. So really it is a restoration project masquerading as a good condition car. Not a bad restoration project -as it is a matching numbers car and a home market car (ideal for the Brits reading this)
Every author of books written about the E-type model mention never to buy a middle condition car as it will cost you a lot of money in the long run. This is such a car (but with a reasonable paint job to make it look smart) This is how the best E-types used to look before Martin Robey came along and produced enough good quality panels to make a new body viable.
The price is key to this one - it has the potential to be a very nice car but you can be paying a lot for items you will scrap. I suspect someone will buy it who thinks it just needs a few hours work to make it a top notch car and fall into the E-type trap again.

Barrie

[rfs1957]

Nicely surmised, Barrie.

The price is key to this one - it has the potential to be a very nice car but you can be paying a lot for items you will scrap. I suspect someone will buy it who thinks it just needs a few hours work to make it a top notch car and fall into the E-type trap again.

Barrie

[christopher storey]

The red FHC (chassis number 861674 ) looks like a car that has never been totally dismantled and as such could be quite an original car .
The body needs an extensive rebuild with new doors, sills, floors, and boot floor. So really it is a restoration project masquerading as a good condition car. Not a bad restoration project -as it is a matching numbers car and a home market car (ideal for the Brits reading this)


Barrie

Are we looking at the same car ? I cannot see the slightest evidence that this car needs new doors, or new sills , or new floors, or a new boot floor. Please identify the photographs which show these necessary steps

- and no, I have nothing to do with the car or its vendor

[flatfloor 3.8]

Perhaps the buyer will just want to use it as is.

[tinworm]

Well Chris - here you go -
29 - rust floor to sill seam
37 stone chip covering rust in or around bonnet mounting beam - no reason to have stone chip here unless its covering something up. A favourite E-type rust point.
47 rust in N/S door
62 rust around door drip tray
48 rust in underside of A post/pillar also a favourite E-type rust point
51 N/S door bottom poor work / possible rust
58 O/S door toprust
59 O/S door top
63 O/S A post paint over rust
64 rear door can't quite see - bottom looks suspicious
74 the worst photo, badly patched rust in O/S wheel arch bottom to boot floor also in panel from boot floor to upper rear floor in the vicinity of the rear of the IRS mounting members . if you are going to repair these panels (which is better than stripping everything out) it can be done invisibly - it wasn't so a don't care attitude was in place at the time - where else?
90 rust at bottom of A post to sill
114 paint over rust?
129 A post bottom

Sorry Bud- but E-types rust extensively and you are always better to err on the side of caution before parting with your hard earned. I ought to know I have rebuilt a few.

regards Barrie

[Jonny XKE]

there is now a description .. it now looks quite a good one in my eyes.

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/196 ... es-1-coupe

[rswaffie]

It’s got good panel gaps, according to the description.

[Jonny XKE]

wonder why he has had it for just a year. Its the underside I don't like.

[rswaffie]

Indeed. On the plus side, It’s got a lot going for it in terms of history, being rhd and according to xkedata is a matching no.s car. It’s been advertised in the last few years around the 80k mark so it will be interesting to see what it makes.

[288gto]

........ Are we looking at the same car ? I cannot see the slightest evidence that this car needs new doors, or new sills , or new floors, or a new boot floor......

I refer my learned friend to the comments he made on the 30th January this year in a previous post offering advice.

"The bad news is that as a general rule, the corrosion you can see on the outside panels of an E is at least matched by what is going on in the hollow spaces. Thus by way of example, external holes in sills usually mean that the inner sill and the internal stiffeners will probably be rotten at the bottom."

Probably some of the best advice if you are intending to spend a large amount of money on an E type is to get it independently inspected by someone like Moss Jaguar or E type UK . The money you spend on the inspection of a bad car and walking away will be a pittance compared to the money you may have to throw at it putting it right.

[Jonny XKE]

Looks like it didn't make its reserve. The last time I looked it was at £45K plus 6%

[madjack4]

Its a dog park it in rain for a week and it will blister everywhere its been botched to sell