Equipment
Very early flat floor E-Type with welded louvers and outside bonnet latches, chrome wire wheels, Dunlop Road Speed tires.
Condition
Shiny black paint, driver's door fits well, passenger door sticks out at the bottom rear. Trunk fit is only fair, pumpkin cylinder head paint seems a little bright, front bumpers droop to outside, orange turn signal lenses should be white, rear should be red. Rear bumper overriders both angled to right. Good leather interior, no radio. Good wheels. A quality but not extravagant example of the most sought-after of all XKEs.
Market commentary
Sold by Brooks at Quail Lodge in 2000 for $81,700 fresh from restoration, then by RM in Monterey two years later for $52,800. Now it's worth $400,000, which traces the dramatic escalation in flat floor E-type values in the last couple years.