12 September 2025 | General News
Among numerous Jaguars entered into the Iconic Auctioneers sale at November’s NEC’s Classic Motor Show is this 1970 Jaguar E-Type Series II FHC – a remarkable one-owner find that has been off the road and ‘carefully stored’ for the last 52 years, has a from-new mileage of just 10,534, and is guided at £35,000-£40,000. Still bearing its original registration number (TON 85), this unrestored 4.2-litre survivor comes with its original paperwork and still has its Opalescent Silver Blue paintwork beneath all that storage dirt.
For fans of compact saloons of the ’60s, meanwhile, the same auction has a 1962 Mk2 listed, a 2.4-litre manual-overdrive version with a genuine 42,000 miles from new and also finished in Opalescent Silver Blue. The matching-numbers example has again been in long-term storage (more than 40 years) but has recently been ‘fully recommissioned to an exceptional standard’ and is being offered with a tempting pre-sale estimate of £10,000-£12,000.
Particularly interesting for Jaguar historians, meanwhile, is a 1970 Series I XJ that Iconics believes to be the prototype for a potential XJ12 manual production model, making this Experimental Department car ‘an important and rare piece of Jaguar history’. The car was originally finished as a 4.2-litre XJ6 in 1970, only to be diverted to Jaguar’s Experimental Department and converted to 5.3-litre V12 spec, complete with four Stromberg carburettors and a four-speed manual gearbox with overdrive. Off the road since 1982 and now in need of full restoration, the ‘XJ12’ comes with a JDHT certificate and correspondence from Jaguar confirming its Experimental Department provenance. It’s guided at £3000-£5000 but is being offered with no reserve.
Finally, from the same vendor comes a particularly early XJ-S – a right-hand drive restoration project carrying a pre-sale estimate of £4000-£6000, but again without reserve. Understood to have been used in period as an experimental and emissions test vehicle in the US, it was shipped back to the UK with a NOVA certificate and comes with documents detailing its history. It’s a stalled project, and extensive work is required.
To find out more about the auction, visit www.iconicauctioneers.com. Or to book tickets to the NEC Classic Motor Show, taking place on November 7th-9th, head to www.necclassicmotorshow.com.
