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[mab01uk]

"The first right-hand drive production Jaguar E-Type coupé is forecast to fetch as much as £1.4million at auction - after the current owner bought it for just £1 in 1998.
The seller paid just a nominal sum for the 1961 Jaguar E-Type Series I 3.8-Litre Fixed Head Coupé, when he bought it from Jaguar author and historian Philip Porter.
He is now selling the car alongside another rare early convertible model - the first production E-Type to be sold - at Gooding & Co's London auction on 1 September in what is described as a sale of 'two of the UK's automotive Crown Jewels'.
The coupé wears the numberplate 1 VHP and has been restored to concours standard. Its anonymous North Wales seller said: 'As well as being the first right-hand drive outside bonnet coupé to be built, this Jaguar is the only surviving chassis number one E-Type of its kind (chassis 860001)."
https://www.thisismo...on-auction.html

 

[Homersimpson]

I wish that the same values were applied to MK2 Jags, I have chassis number 210001 in the garage (the first 3.8 MK2) which was allocated to Claude Baily and kept by the factory as a development car until 1961.