A thorough 100-point restoration on a valuable flat-floor Jaguar E-type is commonplace, but on a rusty 1969 2+2 automatic? That takes serious dedication

Can E-types still command six figure sums? Richard Barnett assesses a top-end restoration undertaken by a famous name

The classics you love, drive and restore

I’M GOING TO JUST SAY IT RIGHT FROM THE OUTSET. I DON’T REALLY LIKE THE JAGUAR E-TYPE. I know this is sacrilege to so many, but as a car magazine obsessed kid the E-Type emblazoned on the cover of cla

I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway

Tony bought this Zephyr for £15 in 1975 – but not to preserve it. Little did he know that it would become his show-stopping classic…