Volume III · AutoIndex Editions
Jaguar E-Type
The Collector's Companion · 1961–1975
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From the Geneva launch that stopped the world to the last V12 Roadster off Browns Lane — the complete E-Type from Series 1 3.8 to Lightweight. Seven dossiers, five series, the competition cars and the market hierarchy explained.
The dossiers
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Series 1 3.8 — the founding car; flat-floor rarity (commission numbers below ~850111), outside bonnet latches, covered headlights — the variants that command the highest premiums and why
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Series 1 4.2 — the sweet spot of usability and collector value; the Jaguar gearbox that resolved the 3.8’s only serious criticism, and the roadster vs coupé spread
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Series 1½ — the transitional cars (open headlights, Series 1 interior): often bought for the wrong reasons at the wrong price; how to identify and value them correctly
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Series 2 — the most commercially successful generation; why RHD triple-carburettor specification is the correct configuration to buy, and how US-market emission detuning affects value
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Series 3 V12 — the last E-Type; 5.3-litre V12 in the world’s most beautiful body, roadster only from 1974, and the closing-production premium
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Lightweight and Low Drag — twelve aluminium-monocoque competition cars; triple-Weber 3.8, ~300 bhp, the six Low Drag coupé bodies; the market hierarchy and how authentic cars are verified
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XJ-S bridge — how the E-Type’s successor affects E-Type values today, and the collector relationship between the two cars
The era
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William Lyons and the Geneva 1961 launch — the design decisions that created the shape, and why provenance from the first production year commands a structural premium
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D-Type to E-Type: the Le Mans racing heritage that underpins the E-Type’s market standing, and the competition cars that connect them
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Flat-floor to standard floor — the commission number transition, what it means at auction, and how to read a Heritage Certificate against a car in front of you
Buying & ownership
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Matching numbers, Heritage Certificate, JDHT factory records — the provenance hierarchy explained, and what each document can and cannot verify
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Configuration premiums by series: RHD vs LHD, body style, colour, triple-carb vs emission spec — the combinations that move the needle and those that don’t
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Restoration economics: full restoration vs a driver-quality car, which structural work to specify before purchase, and the cost of getting it wrong
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Pre-purchase checklist: the ten structural inspections specialists order, the history file sequence that separates a safe purchase from a disputed one
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