2024-10-24 04:37:12 | griff writes:

restored by "GraceJaguar Restorations"
any information or contacts from this company would be gratefully received!

2024-10-24 20:21:19 | pauls writes:

Only thing I found is the town. Business probably gone.

Country United Kingdom

Region Isle of Wight

City Newport

2025-02-10 11:45:32 | pauls writes:

Car was at auction 6/24

www.easyliveauction.com/catalogue/lot/ab0212166c54d55b0ec0772597d35498/0af8d2454 ...

Auction description:

Charterhouse Auctioneers

Classic & Vintage Car Auction at Haynes Motor Museum

Estimate £25,000 - £30,000

1963 Jaguar Mk II 3.8

Registration number AEW 732A

Metallic blue with a light blue leather interior piped in dark bule

Automatic, chrome wire wheels

Subject to a c. £70,000 restoration some 20 years ago by Grace Jaguar

Many upgrades including Coopercraft brakes, power steering, XJ6 gearbox

Grace Jaguar used this car in their promotional literature

Covered less than 1,000 miles since restoration

Been dry stored for most of the past 20 years and never used in the wet

With V5C

Client has mislaid the receipts for the restoration, they may or may not be found

DVLA notes the colour as white, not blue

From the owner:

This stunning car has underwent a full nut and bolt professional restoration 20 years ago and has only covered 800 miles (eight hundred), since the restoration. The work was all carried out by Jaguar specialists ‘Grace Jaguar’, and this actual car was used for all their advertising and brochures, a copy of which will be included in the sale. The car benefits from many upgrades/improvements, such as uprated Coopercraft brakes, power steering, oil cooler and additional cooling fan and a stainless steel exhaust.

As you can see from the photographs the underside of the car is in amazing condition, it has been dry stored for the last 20 years and the few times it has been used it was only on fine days and never in the wet. The car comes with its original tool kit that is complete and includes the Dunlop dick brakes spares tin, a rare item in itself these days!

Under the bonnet the 3.8 engine looks pristine, having been fully rebuilt during the restoration. Inside the car the car has been fully re-trimmed in blue with biscuit coloured new carpets and headlining. The walnut dashboard as good as the day it left the factory in 1963.

The restoration of this Jaguar cost circa £70,000, 20 years ago, with no stone left unturned. Finished in beautiful metallic blue and sitting on chrome wire wheels, this car really is a delight to look at and takes you back to a time when the British motor industry was at the very top of its game.