E-TYPE PROJECT TOPS £145K

The cover car for Historics at Brooklands’ March 4 catalogue lived up to its billing. Against an estimate of £90-110k it sold for a remarkable £145,600. It’s a hard number to swallow. Unrestored original Jaguar E-types are a rare sight now, but this was no cosseted low-miler. It was an 85,000-mile late-1962 3.8 Roadster – not even the extra-collectable flat-floor model – with plenty of barn patina and flaking paint. A full-on project, in other words. It may make an easier resto than the average rust bucket, but there’s still a lot to spend.