Thank you again for a very enjoyable video without all the drama and bullshit of commercial productions. Just love the straight forward presentation, and the depth of knowledge you bring. Your connection with your father and appreciation of his experience really adds so much... give him an extra high 5 for me!
Didnt think I'd watch a long video of this, but it was a pleasure to do so. What an amazing find. I wish you all the best in th he restoration. Looking forward to seeing it finished.
I just found your channel. As a kid growing up in Toronto I'd ride my bike down to Ensign Motors just so I could stare in the window of the small showroom. Before me sat the most beautiful car in the world, the XK-E. Of course, I was a really knowledgeable and cool car guy, (although I wasn't old enough to drive) so I'd tell my friends that it was an E-Type. I'd dream about that car but it was always beyond my reach. I'm 75 now and and living on the left coast and that car is still beyond my reach but I can still dream. Good on you for appreciating this outstanding automobile and caring enough to restore it to its former glory. I don't know if it's an urban legend or not but I believe Enzo Ferrari referred to the E-Type as the most beautiful car ever designed. Thanks for this.
What a fantastic find Richard & Dad. It takes me back to my years as an apprentice panel beater in the mid 1960’s. Back then these made almost an every week appearance in the body shop for hood/bonnet and rear panel damage, mostly due to the owners not being able to judge where the front ends & rears were & had collided with the garage walls. Sometimes the story would be that the owners had let their lady friends drive them & crunch !!! (Haha). Thanks for sharing this gem with us, regards from the U.K. 🇬🇧👍👍
The best people to own and restore this fantastic E- Type is Richard and his Dad the passion they have is just so inspiring and we subscribers can't wait for more progress videos Cheers from Down Under.
Hi Richard and Dad, one of my jobs as an apprentice in the early 70s was grinding and setting the tappet clearances on these heads! (Not my favourite part of the job) but overall the heads were great to work on and usually looked pretty sweet before going back to the customers! Live long and prosper Owens 🙏🇬🇧🖖
What a fantastic find. I cannot think of a better home for it, for now at least. It will be super sweet seeing this lovely old girl running and driving once again after being hidden away for so very long. I'm looking forward to watching you fellas work your magic, I can only imagine the relish you must be feeling. Great stuff.
What a great video Owen!!! Most don't get to see those original bits even on a concourse car, great narration for us Jaguar sponges who love to see original bits come out of a box.
An amazing find. It has fallen into the best hands it could have found. I and all you followers look forward to seeing the progress you and your Dad make on this beautiful automobile. Thanks for sharing as always. Cheers.
Back in 1977/8 in the UK, I worked on restoring a rotted out 1961/2 signal red with beige trim 3.8 coupé. It was a very early drop footwell model, that still had the small shovel back shaped seats and alloy trim. It had sat many years in a waterlogged farm field, and had done a lot of miles. The oil covered transmission tunnel and engine bay were the only surviving part of the lower 12" of the car not complerely rotted away. Parts fo the earlier cars were expensive and almost non existent then. What you could find were often poorly shaped pattern parts. Some body panels being made were just a rough copy that had to be altered to fit the individual model roadster, coupé , or 2+2 . I have fond memories of hand making many body parts, including the footwells, repair sections, and the various louvred aluminium closing panels that fitted around the front space-frame. The entire floors had been bodged up previously, with riveted on Zinc and Alloy plates. They had then been filled over with fibreglass and body filler, which were the only bits not rotted away. It had had a fibreglass bonnet fitted at some point too. We managed to get a new 3.8 style steel replacement, but had to assemble the complete front end that came loosely bolted together. It came with a rough cut rear edge that had to be hand finished and folded to fit the bulkhead shape. You were lucky those alloy bonnet hinge brackets were good. Ours were all worn away and loose fitting on the pivot pin, needing to be repaired before attempting to hand make the bonnet shut line. Yes you are correct, the air intake box should be finished in a rough sprayed, but not hammered look, satin aluminium effect. Ours also had Cadmium coated brackets on the fluid reservoirs etc. What was left of the exhaust ceramic coating was a cream/ light beige colour. The inner sill trim that was left on ours was black Hardura fabric, which was also on a few other places. The customer took it for an interior re-trim after we had finished the body and paint. I've seen quite a few early build E-Types, and they could have had a mis match of many parts fitted on the production line from different suppliers. Good luck with the restoration Richard, it's never easy when you're putting together a car someone else took apart.
STUNNING...finds like this are getting scarce..For me though,listening to the joy in your voice and enthusiasm,made it all the more enjoyable,she went to someone who will treat her right...When she Fires up,I will salute you.🇬🇧
After 58 years on this planet 🌎 still my top dream car. Can’t wait to see the progress. Fantastic find, in this day and age. Being an early model, would this have whitewall tires?? Growing up in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, seeing an XKE as a kid, was akin to seeing a spaceship. Older neighbor had friend with a white roadster with proper Union Jack 🇬🇧 painted on the trunk lid Naturally The Italian Job, is also one of my favorite films. Thanks for sharing this. JT: Orlando FLA
Hi Richard, Great to see the video. What a fantastic find. I found a similar project BT7 Healey slightly worse in Los Angeles. Last on the road in 74. Great fun. Marston radiators are still trading in England and they would rebuild that rad but i guess the cost of shipping would kill it. Keep up the good work.
Richard...welcome back..my favorite car guy.... hope for lots of success for you and yours... think you should have your own TV show...look forward to the seeing this car return to life
Great that you found/rescued this valuable piece of history. Looking forward to future videos & more of your work. I'm enjoying my '68 OTS and it gets driven weekly, lots of fun keeping it on the road.
Congratulations! Plenty of material for episodes to come - looks like there is an almost finished XK150 lurking under some sheet. Can't wait to get your final take on that. Also amazing to see the original triple carbs and how much the intake manifolds are bent down in comparison to the XK150 S or MK10.
I was expecting it to be an outside bonnet lock car, but it clearly has inside locks. I believe Fosseway Performance here in the UK make replica early radiators. Definitely an early plenum - no indented ribs on the top surface. What a great find.
Richard I would love to see some close up photos of the radiator stone guard. I’m currently refurbishing this piece on my March 1962 build car and can’t find photos anywhere. Love all of your videos. Thanks!
I am fully restoring one just like your car , it's N 21, it was used in England for the Dunlop commercial ,then it was shipped to Australia , nice to see which parts are original or not for the car since someone else dismantle and done some work to the car in the 70's before we got to it late in 2021 , still working on the restoration at the moment in 2022 .
I saw two complete E-types looking like this ( but in a bit better condition) in a barn in upstate NY about 4 years ago. He had a TR7 I went to look at and there they were, right next to the TR. The old guy was a Jaguar mechanic from Africa back in the day.... said not for sale tho. Good find!
I just saw this and you must be like a kid in a sweetshop! That is a fantastic find! Well done to you all!! I am absolutely enjoying this! As now I can at last see it in 4K it is as if I am in the room with you! Have fun with this one and I for one cannot wait to follow you on this!! As and when you can! Good luck and it I lovey to see the knowledge you have too!! Not that you wouldn't have LOL ;)
Man, these are different times. In 1979 I looked at a 1962 E-Type fixed head in Teaneck, New Jersey with 20,000 miles, allegedly 2 original tires and a seized engine. It looked forlorn but it was complete and fully assembled. The seller (a mechanic) was asking for $3000. I passed on it. Back then, it was not an easy car to sell at that price.
Great to see you starting another great Jaguar restoration. Keep those restoration videos coming we love to see them, just put a link to your youtube channel on my latest instagram.
Welcome back Richard..... It`s been awhile...... Back to Black and Tan, then work your magic on Her.... Make Her into the Beauty that She deserves to be..... Keeping as many Original parts as possible, but make her a dream to drive..... :-))))
Just yesterday I was thinking I'd not seen anything from you in a while then you drop this today! Puck under lifter adjustments can be a huge PITA - many motorcycle adopted that means of adjustment as well in later decades. This ought to be a great series of videos, right?
Hi Richard . Seek and ye shall find ! You must be in seventh heaven . I agree with Chuck that the bonnet centre section is repairable. My take is that unlike the previous "e" type you restored for your buddy which you kept in it's "as found " condition , this is a different animal ? I guess the plan is to return it to it's original colour ? If so , l would break down the bonnet to it's separate elements as the air duct panels do suffer from corrosion . I have done this on mine . Additionally the bonnet also has damage behind the right hand over rider and the lower front apron has also distorted . I realise this is more labour intensive but the advantage is that the damaged area's will be so much easier to repair and they are not under any tension. If l didn't live across the pond l'd come and do it for you .....and l still have lots to do on mine ! Good luck .
I know you can't do this, but how much was that to buy please. Estimate so we can look for these things knowing we could buy them, but if they are expensive in that state, then we are nearly all out of the race.
Hey Ricard …fantastic find they do come up occassionaly…I’ve got a 61 RHD OTS in a million bits too…last registered 1982…… any chance of getting photos of the brake and clutch tags ( im missing them)
The bonnets (not "hood" on a Jag) comes apart. Its 4 pieces. If thats too much, pop it off and flip it, you should have enough access to that dent. The sugar scoops are silver on an early car. The shop I work at has done too many of these cars to count. JCNA champions 26 times over. As far as early cars, we've done #18 and #8. Both gunmetal gray with red interiors, outside latch. DO NOT put those clamps in any sort of rust remover!! It will dissolve the aluminum in them. We found that out the hard way years ago. The carbs are date coded on these cars too. Remember, corvettes from the this era have the same trico wiper blades. You can get them from the corvette guys. We do those cars too. If you need some help, contact me. I'll be glad to help you guys out.
Suggestion on the fuel tank find a plater that tin plate the tank. The problem I had with my Mk2 tank is the shop that did it had to do it twice and cut a huge hole to sand blast and put the sealant in and it looks like 💩 and it needs to be done again. Replacing with a new tank from Xks and it’s tin plated. What a score 👍
@@RichardMichaelOwen awesome. A friends 64 Galaxy tank was totally destroyed by an unnamed radiator shop in Portland Ore. again great find and have fun.
Oops - that should have read "the location of the dot under the word TOUGHENED" no dot was a round number 50's, 60's - 70's etc. All the window glass should be similarly marked.
39:48 That clutch disk doesn't look like it's even been used once let alone for a while. It's pristine (well asbestos pristine anyway LOL). As well the rest of the unit looks brand new. I wonder if that was one of the reasons it wasn't being driven? Perhaps it was to get the new clutch put in and they just didn't get it in and stopped after they'd thought to do a full restore job but didn't count the cost or labor or something.
Are you interested in another ‘62 flat floor welded louver XKE? All original - paint, body, engine, trans - And interior - never restored. Estate sale - needs to move on to a new home for its next life.
I wonder with barn/garage find cars how often their history may include a coming together with a pedestrian that has gone unreported, they often appear to have frontal damage of that nature with no reason for initial hiding.
The location of the Dot under the word Triplex refers to the YEAR in the decade, so a dot under the T - you have to decide whether it's a 51, 61, 71 and etc.
The Pre-68 XKE was my dream car, since I was a kid. I never liked most Detroit muscle cars. I never could afford an E-Type, and wouldn't buy one now anyway, since I'm probably around your dad's age. Oh well. what might have been, under different financial circumstances.---😢
@@RichardMichaelOwen Oh ok. Mine is 4 inch with Jaguar on one side and Bahco on the other. I do not understand why a Swedish company would make wrenches for an English car but the quality is superb. I collect Bahco adjustable wrenches that is why I came across this Jaguar one. Good look with your latest project I Love watching your channel.
