Have you ever driven one? They make Multistrada's look like they have a rear brake and corner like a reliant.
almost anything looks good in green. this is earlier on in the year long weekend in burgundy with my bird
Doesn't look too bad but they never do, do they? I reckon that's a shrewd buy, getting in before the speculators price them out of the market. The price difference between S1/2/3 can't be sustainable. Is it an original white car (best colour for an old car!)? What colour interior (if it's red then it's bang on!!)? As long as you don't fit chrome wire wheels it can't fail to look great when done. Be good to see a build thread on the resto but I guess that'll be a link to a different forum..... Good luck.
No problem with a build thread on here, we have Kawasaki builds and a Madarati Engined Motorcycle, so why not an E Type - it's our Forum so we can always have a democratic vote and then El T will do as he thinks fit
Would love to see a thread on the rebuild or at least a few pics on the way. Put it under Builds & Projects - its doesn't say its' Bikes - Builds & Projects. Diversity is that what they keep telling us, or is that a separate issue. Cheers Gaz
here is the saga: car arrived couple of weeks after this thread was started. we lifted it up in the workshop and it was super rusty. like you would not believe. (i bought it unseen) . so anyway , i decided that if you want to do full on resto, then might as well do it on valuable model as amount of work is exactly the same, but the values at the end are very different ( not that i am doing it to sell, but...) , so anyway , sameday i am going and putting deposit over the phone on 3.8L 1963 coupe etype being sold by a dealer in europe who imported it from US. went home, put up this type for sale, paid the balance on the second one and agreed with the dealer that car to be delivered in 2 weeks time. no point in going to see it really as it was far away and it was offered for full on restoration. everything needed to be done. in 2 weeks time car was not delivered and dealer stopped answering my calls. slowly i started shitting myself and done what i should have done all along, googled VIN number. immediately it came up with threads on forums and xkedata site full of people who been sold the same car over and over again and lost a lot of money. by this point i am not feeling too good as it was quite a bit of money. so i am sending email to a dealer telling him that i am reporting him to police and sending him links to all the fraud info on this car i managed to find. at this point he replies and looks like he's been sold non-existant car and he lost money on it (not surprising with punter like me but surprising for a dealer specialising in classic cars) yet he still refuses to give me my money back. after couple more days of threats from me he agrees to pay me back and sends me copy of wire transfer which didn't really look super real. i am waiting for several days and nothing comes in to my account. at this point i realise that I've been taken on for my money. this dealer on his site advertised in his own language , plus english and russian , so i assumed that he does a bit of business with russian buyers. i have few mates in moscow who sort of owed me a favour , so I've got them involved and they contacted seller on my behalf. anyway , i did get my money back + compensation for time waste + difference in exchange rate loss (as euro got stronger in a mean time - it was few weeks ago, before falling back down again) so all good, my first etype (rusty one) is now sold, second one I've got my money back for and now i have bought my final etype (hopefully) , which is s2 roadster , rust free and in very original condition. it needs full engine rebuild, paint, and interior , which i recon will be done by July - August. i will post pics of the work in due corse
Nice, always liked E-types. :thumbsup: Back in the early '80s a friend was selling one, an immaculate 4.2 in white. He wanted £4.5k for it which at the time seemed a lot of money, I seriously considered it and then didn't buy it. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and, no regrets etc. but this is one thing I truly regret... :cry:
Can't wait to see this pics my misses hired me one for my 30th last year for a day, was an amazing experience! And as close as I'll probably ever get to one again! Was a series 2 4.2l. My dream garage believe it or not is a E-type in Carmen red and a matching f-type
here it is. engine requires full rebuild, car will have to be painted ( recon will go for original colour from heritage certificate), interior will have to be changed, seats done up and soft top and windscreen will need to go in. other then that she is gooden. plan is to finish by july-august and drive her down to burgundy for a test drive.
Are u keeping the white walls? I assume this is a US car? What are u doing with the engine, any reliability mods? I think I would do electronic ignition, upgraded exhaust and unleaded head, and electric fan kit perhaps with a better radiator as they seem to run really hot (the one I had in the summer had the heater jammed on which I am told is a trick to get them to run cooler). Best of luck
yep, US car . will pull engine out weekend after next, and start making decision on whats and how job needs to be done. ideally want to do nut and bolt resto with keeping 100% to original spec, but not sure i will be able to afford it to get it done in time for summer. not sure... will make decision once we will pull it apart and costs will become bit more clear.
Nice, yeah, it's going to be pricey for sure! But worth it, some things u could do to get it done like reuse parts that are accessible if they are worn but serviceable then replace later but so much of it will be difficult to get at its worth doing once, like the rear cage, means full diff rebuild, completely new brakes, no short cuts on a car like this really. I did a lot of reading up and there is definitely power to be had out the engine but it's not what my goal would be, I would be all about efficiency, like perhaps balancing the crank and other components to really maximise the running without compromising reliability in any way, unleaded head and proper ignition as I said.
will be taking advise from a mate of mine who is almost a year in to full S1 4.2 roadster resto (which is basically the same car) , he is doing loads of mods , but i deffo wanna keep it 100% original if it is at all poss
