Looking resplendent in its rare original colour scheme, this late-model Jaguar E-type Series 1 has spent most of its life in North America and has benefitted from an extensive recent restoration in the UK.

Chassis number 1E34099 was built at the Browns Lane factory on 5 January 1967 and dispatched to Jaguar Cars New York on 26 January. Although little is known of its early life in the US, it is believed to have had only two owners and covered only about 34,000 miles by the time it was sold to a specialist in Texas in 2018.

Later that year, it was shipped to another specialist, this time in the Netherlands. It was then sold to its current UK-based owner as a project car in 2019, and a thorough restoration soon got under way.

The whole process is documented via a wealth of invoices in the E-type’s history file, and included replacing the floors and sills, stripping down and overhauling the suspension – new Gaz dampers and Polybushes were fitted – and rebuilding the engine and gearbox. Having been resprayed red and retrimmed black at some point during its time in the US, it was also returned to its striking factory-original combination of black with a red interior.

The braking system was fully rebuilt and the final touches to this comprehensive project were applied in the summer of 2024. After initial road-testing, a new water pump and crank damper were fitted, and the suspension geometry was fine-tuned in order to make sure the E-type drove as well as it looked. Now being offered for sale at the Classic Motor Hub, this beautifully restored, matching-numbers Jaguar E-type is an exceptional example of the Series 1 4.2 – the model that many marque experts consider to be the sweet-spot in the E-type range, thanks to its combination of unspoilt styling and numerous improvements over the earlier 3.8.