• Year of manufacture 
    1/1964
  • Mileage 
    1 720 km / 1 069 mi
  • Car type 
    Convertible / Roadster
  • Reference number 
    672974760
  • Drive 
    LHD
  • Condition 
    Used
  • Exterior brand colour 
    Old English White
  • Location
    Belgium
  • Exterior colour 
    White
  • Gearbox 
    Manual
  • Performance 
    265 BHP / 269 PS / 198 kW
  • Drivetrain 
    2wd
  • Fuel type 
    Petrol

Description

Drive: Rear wheel drive
Number of cylinders: 6
Engine capacity: 3.800 cc

Jaguar E-Type Series 1 3.8L OTS 1964

Date of delivery - 22/01/1964

Chassis number - 878392

Engine number - R8320-8

Body number - R4947

Gearbox number - EB7456JS

Exterior color - Old English White

Interior color - Red

Hood (soft top color) - Black

Currently in Belgian registration

Same owner since 2004

Last MOT from December 2022 - 0 remarks

Story

The launch price of the car was around £2,250, comparatively valued at £38,000 in today’s money, which made it surprisingly more affordable than many other sports cars.

It also featured much more modern specifications such as independent rear suspension and all-round disk brakes that put it ahead of its time.

The 3.8 liter engine gave out a claimed 265bhp and could reach a top speed of 150mph, which made it the fastest production car in the world at that time.

Series 1

Initially launched in 1961 as the “E” Type Open Two Seater, the E-Type (XKE) is Jaguar’s most iconic car.

Jaguar described it as being “developed from the famous “C” and “D” Type Sports-Racing cars” because it had a monocoque chassis similar to the D-Type.

They called it “an entirely new concept of high speed motoring.”

The result was a 150 mph cruiser that had companies like Ferrari scrambling to make sure there next generation supercar could match the E.

The first E-Type to be shown in public was driven to the Geneva Motor Show and introduced to the world.

It was the product of five years of development and borrowed much from the preceding race cars coming from Coventry.

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