2020-10-19 11:05:06 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 10/20
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Auction description:
The NEC Classic Live Online Auction
1956 Jaguar XK140 3.4 SE Roadster (Manual)

Built on 23/02/1956 and exported to the USA
Bought by our vendor from a UK classic car specialist as a complete example
Comprehensive ground-up restoration to a superb standard, only finished last year
Confirmed by inspection to be matching numbers. Fitted with a C-Type head
All relevant documents, including V5c, invoices, photos and a Heritage Certificate

Dispatched from Browns Lane on the 6th March 1956, this left-hand-drive XK140 Roadster, equipped to ‘SE’ specification, with the desirable 'C'-type cylinder head and a manual gearbox, was delivered new to Jaguar Cars New York.

Seeing its potential, some 35 years later, the XK made the return journey and was acquired by a classic car specialist. Our vendor, a car enthusiast and trained engineer, purchased the car (as a wholly complete and matching numbers example) from the specialist, Yorkshire Vintage & Classic Car Company, in November 1991, with the decision to set about a complete, ground-up, restoration. Due to restoring an XK150 in the meantime, this XK140 had to wait its turn, but this painstaking project was completed only recently. It included input from many marque specialists, including Leaping Cats Ltd. and Lanes Cars. Pleasingly, its original engine and gearbox (the latter being stripped and rebuilt by Charles Roberts, with new components bought from Alan George, and the cylinder head reconditioned by Vintage Sports Engines of Llanbister) remained in place, with the former sent to specialists S.Brunt Ltd. Precision Engineers to be stripped, inspected, rebored and fully rebuilt. The clutch mechanism has been upgraded from mechanical to hydraulic. The bodywork was taken back to bare metal and completely refinished in a beautiful shade of Cream (as per its HC). All mechanical components were either restored or replaced and the full rolling chassis (repaired, sand-blasted, zinc sprayed, painted and Waxoyled) prepared to be reunited with the rebuilt engine. The interior was beautifully re-trimmed in Oxblood leather and new carpets fitted.

This sparkling XK now presents in superb condition and is described as running and driving very well as you might expect. It is accompanied by the owner's file which contains multiple invoices, photographs of the restoration, and a Heritage Certificate

Offered at a very sensible guide, this is an opportunity to own a very stylish, sought after and collectable Jaguar from a point in time when the world was very different. All that is left to do is to brim the tank, fill the picnic basket and set off on a beautiful sunny afternoon.