It turns out it’s not just the celebrity connection that makes this Jaguar E-type Roadster really rather special.
And, we promise, no more puns…
This Sherwood Green 1961 drop-top E-type has been consigned to Silverstone Auctions’ Silverstone Classic Live Online Auction on 31 July and 1 August from actor and comedian Steve Coogan’s collection, and with an eye-watering £300-350,000 pre-sale estimate, it is clearly a special example.
The car you see here is chassis number 62.
It is one of the first 92 right-hand-drive E-types with outside bonnet locks, and one of the 56 used as dealer demonstrators – plus this was the first in Scotland.
It went there in July ’61, to the marque’s Edinburgh dealership, but the dealers weren’t permitted to sell these until September, and eight days into that month, it was registered to its first owner.
Owner number one lived in North Berwick, eventually selling it in 1978 to its next custodian, this time in Edinburgh.
