My good friend Joe bought a shiny new Jag last month at Jake Kaplan's Jaguar in Rhode Island. After he closed the deal on his new Jag the owner of the dealership took him out to a back storage garage to show off her immaculate 1960 E-type. While he was in the garage he noticed a lonely little Targa stuffed in a dark corner with a NOT FOR SALE sign scrawled on the rear window. He asked her about the car and she said that a customer dropped it off for service 20 years ago and never came back to pick it up, something to do with a divorce. She said that the car was not for sale because they didn't have the legal paperwork to sell it. I called the dealership as soon as Joe told me about the car and I told them I wanted to buy it. After a good deal of begging and pleading she agreed to get the paperwork in order to sell the car and I bought it about a month later for $7,500. Cosmetically and structurally everything is in perfect original condition, inside and out including the very rare brushed aluminum rocker panel and fender trim, only 60K mi. I've started to address the mechanical end of things by removing and cleaning the very dirty fuel tank and sent out the FD, & WUR to be rebuilt. Doing lots of other things while I wait for the fuel parts to return. Valve adjustment and gaskets, Ignition parts, new fuel pump, fuel lines, battery, 11 blade fan removed thermal reactors etc. etc. Good compression and head bolts!! Hope I get her running before the summer gets here!!
