2002-12-21 05:55:07 | Anonymous writes:

RM Auctions, Phoenix, 1/18/2002:

Primrose Yellow/Black leather, Black top; Estimate $60,000 - $80,000; Recent restoration, 2 condition; Hammered Sold at $52,000 plus commission of 10.00%; Final Price: $57,200 -- Chrome wire wheels. Restoration started about a decade ago by a previous owner and just completed to better than showroom condition. Polished underhood, excellent cosmetics. Under 12,000 miles from new.

2002-12-21 15:52:57 | Anonymous writes:

RM Auction, 1/18/2002, Phoenix, AZ. Lot #45. Sports Car Market report:

Subject of an interrupted restoration finally finished quite recently and to exacting standards. Low mileage believed to be genuine. Gorgeous cat all around.

2004-11-08 11:59:54 | Matt writes:

I own 1E11665, opalescent dark green, green int.
32,000 orig miles.
Car is almost entirely original including plug wires, hose clamps etc.
Amazingly close to the 1E11660. I am in Ottawa Ont.

2005-03-29 18:48:08 | pauls writes:

Car listed as sold at:
www.docsjags.com/docsjags/index.html

Sellers description:
This car (Chassis Number IE.11660 along with its separate J-66 California Tag) was the 1,660th 4.2 Liter XKE produced, and rolled off the Coventry Factory floor in March 1966, bound for California. It was a one-owner car from 1966 to the late 1980's when a San Francisco Bay Area car collector bought it and another black ' 66 XKE at the same time, and spent the next four years doing a complete frame-off restoration of both cars. The cars were then placed in long-term storage from 1996 until June 1999, when the previous owner put them both up for sale. After its purchase in late June 1999, the current owner of this car spent the next two years re-restoring the car and bringing it up the current state of 100% new or rebuilt condition for every nut, bolt, assembly, exterior/interior, motor or function in the car, and making it equally ready for the showroom or the highway.

This car has just over 10,000 original miles on the frame and about 6,000 miles on the re-built engine which followed the factory suggested "running-in" requirements. The car has been held to a Concours Standard restoration for a Series I XKE, even including the often-overlooked owners manual, spare parts catalogue, service manual and tool-kit.

The owner also has two large books that hold all of the receipts, plus some progress pictures, from the frame-off restoration, which was professionally done by Perfect Reflections in Hayward, CA and Vintage Auto Service in Walnut Creek, CA. The only modification that is not original is a driver's side mirror that became standard on all XKE's after 1967, which was put on this car by the current owner for safety purposes.

This car is in better condition now than when it rolled off the assembly line in 1966, and is one of the best examples of the fast, reliable and comfortable Grand Tourer that Jaguar "shocked the automotive world" with in early 1961.