One of two decaying Jaguar E-Type sports cars that have spent the last 40 years rotting in a barn. The classic vehicles are expected to fetch £16,000 each when they go under the hammer at Bonhams later this year
Cars, to me, are simply a means to an end. I don't criticise those who love them in their own right but I am at a loss to understand why the auctioneers expect them to fetch £16,000 ($27,000).
There doesn't seem to be a lot left on which to base a restoration job. The bodywork appears, to my untrained eye, to be pretty much beyond redemption. The engine and gear box might well be in a reasonable state, but I wonder if the reason that they were banished to a barn in the first place was because of some massive engine or transmission failure.
Perhaps one or other of the Cellar's resident car buffs can enlighten me. Over to you...