Family Uncovers Heirloom Jaguar E-Type After 25 Years

The Jaguar E-Type Series III V12 Roadster is one of the most beautiful and lusted-after sports cars of all time, so of course if you owned one you’d leave it in storage for 25 years.

Well, perhaps you wouldn’t, but that’s exactly what a family in England did with theirs, which has finally come out of hibernation to be auctioned off.

Prior to a recent restoration, the 1973 Jag was last registered for the road in 1990, by which time it’d rang up just 7,700 miles on its odometer. In 1993 its original owner died and left it to his son, who himself passed away last fall and did the same.

Silverstone Auctions will be putting it on the block on May 23rd both in person at the Silverstone racing circuit in England and online, where it’s expected to fetch about $125,000, about 15 times what it cost when it was new.

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