2018-02-08 16:44:41 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 4/18
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Auction description:
Registration Date 1960
Make & Model Jaguar XK150 SE 3.8 FHC
Colour Old English White
Registration Number 379 UXV
Chassis No. S836978DN
Engine size 3,781 cc
Engine No. VA2113-8
Documents V5C; MOT May 2018 with no advisories; 3 old MOTs; invoices; restoration photos; handbook; manuals; Heritage Cert etc
Estimate £70,000 - £75,000

As the Heritage Certificate confirms, this XK150 was built in September 1960 and despatched to Jaguar Cars New York the following month. A Special Equipment model (as denoted by the 'S' prefix chassis number), it had an overdrive gearbox and was painted Cream with a red leather interior. Returning to the UK in November 1989, it was then acquired by a Mr Bowyer of Suffolk who was to keep it from 1994 until 2011.

During his 17-year ownership the car was treated to a total nut-and-bolt restoration which took well over 10 years to complete. A vast array of parts invoices and photographs document the extent of the work carried out, which included conversion to RHD and re-setting the odometer to zero. The restoration had barely been completed when Mr Bowyer was cruelly struck down by illness, having covered fewer than 500 miles in his beloved XK.

The vendor acquired the car from his estate in 2011 and has continued to pamper it, with invoices on file amounting to over £11,000 during his ownership. This has included trips to CMC in Bridgnorth, Guy Broad in Coventry and Denis Welch Motor Sport in Burton-on-Trent to keep the car in tip top condition including re-setting the ride height, replacing various gaskets, hoses and brake parts, timing chain adjustment plus general servicing. A new set of five chrome wire wheels with new Michelin tyres have also been fitted.

The car has covered only 3,300 fine weather miles since the restoration was completed and remains in superb order throughout, being as clean underneath as it is up top. We are told that it also drives as well as it looks with an MOT until May 2018 with no advisories recorded (although it is now exempt from this test). It certainly started promptly and ran beautifully as we moved it around for these photos.

As good an example as we have ever offered, this 'matching numbers' XK comes with the aforementioned invoices and restoration photos, various old MOTs, Heritage Certificate, USA Certificate of Title and import papers, owner's handbook, factory service and parts manuals, framed guide to the XK range and a framed print of an XK150.

2018-05-06 17:40:38 | pauls writes:

Sold £77,280