Very nice car. Why sell it? I have a rather tatty MkI. It has a E-type 3.8 motor. It has taken me a couple of years to sort it out. I could probably write a couple of hundred pages explaining the work I did. I attach a photo. It now has fog lights on the front so as to make it look really British. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hi Lowell, yours is very nice...never seen one with a sliding roof. They are very simple cars to work on and bet you had fun spending time restoring yours. BTW----mine was the same color as yours before it was stripped to bare metal. The Mark 1 looks like a bigger sedan with a smaller back window and not as sporty looking as the Mark 2. That is why the Mark 2 is my preference. The reason for selling is I have another Mark 2 I am restoring. A willow green 67 Mark 2. Redoing the veneer at this point and THAT is a learning curve by itself.
I think that the MkII may look better from the rear --- and the wider rear stance may make it handle better --- but the MkI really handles well --- but I really do think that the front of the MkI looks better. Also, I guess that I am a weird bird in that I like the old-fashioned interior better than the more modern MkII interior. Nonetheless, the car that you are selling is beautiful.
Lowell, your garage is great and spacious, soo clean. Your Mark 1 would look much nicer with it's baby brother next to it, a nice green Mark 2...haha.
Still have my 1960 Jaguar Mark 2 for sale. Great running car that I drove out to Palm Desert where it sits today. Beautiful car restored in 1999, it starts, runs and drives as it should. Transmission/overdrive completely rebuilt. As the XKE prices go higher and higher, I believe these will soon follow as it is sporty and not too big as the earlier saloons. Asking $37,000. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I have the car in Palm Desert currently. I will take more pics tomorrow. There are some pics of the interior on page 1. The leather interior, Wilton wool carpets etc are from G.W. Bartlett, classic Jaguar interior specialists now named OSJI. I drove it out to PD where it sits about a month ago...drove perfectly, and so nope, no current needs but does have a couple of bubbles on the paint now 17 years after being restored. Mitch Lanzini of OverHaulin said to leave them for a later date when the car is restored again. The car was stripped to metal in 1999 and painted by the PO sons shop. I did drive it some time ago to a car club/warehouse some buddies own in HB. Chip Foose is down the street, saw it go by and walked down to take a look...he loved the paint job which made my day coming from a legend! I get lots of thumbs up driving this thing as most people have never seen a Mark 2. I'll get back with pics of interior tomorrow. Thanks...
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There are Mark 2s and then there was this one. This car is stunning and ran like a top. It was restored in 1999 and was celebrated as the cover car for the Sept/Oct 1999 issue of Jaguar Journal. It was the 40th Anniversary of the Mark 2 and this machine was picked for this cover by Jaguar Journal, the Worlds Oldest Jaguar Magazine founded in 1955, and published by the Jaguar Clubs of North America. This car truly stopped traffic. A wealthy car collector (43 cars) gentleman saw it in front of a restaurant, made a U-turn came into the restaurant asking for the owner of the car. I was pointed out as the owner having lunch and the car is sold! It really will be a car I know I'll miss later on.
