2020-02-24 13:56:04 | pauls writes:

Car offered at:
www.luzzago.com/shop_dettaglioprodotto.asp?id=1389

Seller's description:
XK 140 OTS SE
Version: Special Equipment
Year: 1955
Mileage: 63 (instrument)
External Color: Black
Interior color: Beige
No. of gears: 4 + R + Overdrive
Displacement: 3442
Plate: To be registered
Availability: On Site
Price: € 140.000
Painted spoke wheels
Fog lights
Drum brakes
Heritage or Official Certificate
Leather interior
Matching Numbers
Sunroof

2020-08-12 09:07:57 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 9/20

www.bonhams.com/auctions/26494/preview_lot/5373328/

Auction description:

1956 Jaguar XK140 SE Roadster

Chassis no. S 813025

Engine no. G 9611-8S

€ 90,000 - 130,000

US$ 110,000 - 150,000

•Special Equipment model with C-type cylinder head

•Original left-hand drive

•Matching chassis, engine, and cylinder head numbers

•Bare-metal restoration in Italy

According to its accompanying Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust Certificate, this beautifully restored XK 140 SE Roadster left the factory on 23rd November 1956 and was despatched to Jaguar Cars, New York on 6th December of that same year. Importantly, this is a Special Equipment model with the C-type cylinder head. The certificate also confirms the matching-number engine ('G 9611-8S') and lists centre-lock wire wheels and twin fog lamps as items of original equipment. The original colour combination was black with matching interior.

The first owner is not known, but the car later spent time in Englewood, Colorado with another owner (from 1975 to 1994). In 1996 the Jaguar was imported into Italy where it is believed to have remained, awaiting restoration, for some 18 years. In 2014 the car was purchased by the current owner, who commissioned a comprehensive, frame-off, bare metal restoration, which was finished in 2018. Judging the original all-black colour combination to be too sombre for his taste, he opted for a contrasting magnolia leather interior, while the wire wheels were painted black to match the body. Most importantly, this car retains not only retains its original engine block but also its original cylinder head, which both correspond correctly to the numbers on the Heritage Certificate.

The XK is offered with the aforementioned Heritage Certificate; photocopy of old US title; EU customs documentation; a German TüV certificate issued April 2019, classifying the car as sound; and German registration documents. Full weather equipment as well as sundry photographs documenting the restoration are present also. An unmissable opportunity to purchase a beautifully restored XK 140 SE Roadster that ticks all the boxes.