I remember when I first saw one back in 1961 it was like a Rocket ship from outer space I have 2 of them now a roadster and a coupe both Series 1 1962 Cars Great video nice to see your Enthusiasm for a younger Person
Thank you so much! I pinched myself seeing four in real life and honestly all these years later they're still a showstopper, I cannot imagine what it must've been like in 1961!
@@paulmarriner5906 Wow 1961 tell me as a young Kid that was a brand new spanking car 3 triple wipers glass over the lights same as DB5 indicators/ park lights over front bumpers rear lights over rear bumpers 3.8 buckets seats chrome dash and Center console, the clocks 9-1 compression ratio Pistons triple SU carbs tell me did everybody went crazy for them also did you see loads off them driving around on roads back then Roadsters were slightly cheaper than FHC. amazingly. 2 Etypes could buy a Pagoda they was £5500 in 1965 wow house was £2500. Go on tell me in 1961 or through 60s about Etypes
Dad’s Series1 4.2 Roadster had original factory hardtop also they are rare. Still have 1 of my dads spare original Etype steering wheel and headlamp glass in loft must be up there now 25 years +
“I broke my spine” Oooooooh 😭 “in my Jaaaaag” 😎🤷♂️ No but seriously other than swinging your legs over, I’d love to see how much easier it’d be to enter a FHC!
I was so spoilt as a child dad owned series1 Etype 4.2 Roadster the one in vid is a 3.8 Roadster then when I was 18 my father bought me a 230SL then at 23 I owned 280SL Pagoda owned a stag also last one on a T reg 1979. they are not worth much. Etype Series1 £200,000 and 280 Pagoda not not 230 or 250SL they are half price stags are silly cheap £10-£15,000
@@joemorgan636 Stags are silly cool considering that, the big surprise of the lineup, my favorite non-Jag in retrospect! One with a TR6 engine or a Rover V8 would be really cool. Pagodas have really soared in value. Quite cool selection, you and your dad had great taste👌
@@Petrospect Mercedes Pagoda and Etype are just a different level off machine reason why Stag you can buy four really nice examples £10-£15,000 and Etype and Merc Pagoda £200,000 major difference
@@joemorgan636 Absolutely! E-Types have some issues but nothing like the Stag. E-Types also I think were poster cars and the impact they’ve had I don’t think you can put much of a price on. The only upside is they made a fair few of them at least, some say it’d be a car that’d cost millions had they made as few Ferraris of the same period they made (even if it was much more technologically advanced). I was shocked at the quality too as I mentioned in the video, I can see why people started lamenting plastics in cars, it looked beautifully constructed, that S1. I can definitely see why they’re worth that much! If for nothing else for being a great piece of rolling art and automotive history.
@@Petrospect was it you talking on Video I thought the man who owned Series1 Roadster was rude, saying to you how comes you know about these cars why shouldn’t you he is an idiot got really no time got people like that. Let me teach you something okay only downside on Jaguar Etype was exactly made slot off them build quality in 1960s was poor they use to Rust like crazy but I have to remember back in those days. The weather was horrendous in Great Britain and parts of Europe. Only Etype that’s worth serious money is Series1 either, 3.8 and 4.2 version is Fixed head Coupe or Roadster but big big money is 3.8 Flat Floor external bonnet locks. The Series 2 was okay but people weren’t mad over it but they were more affordable also Series 3 V12 same again even cheaper. But but Series 1 is the big boy and the good looker but extremely expensive
@@joemorgan636 Thank you for your comments; it was me! I'm thankful he gave me the time of day when I felt like I was being a bit of a bother but yeah nobody really expects someone as young as me to know quite so much about these cars 🤣so I took it as a term of endearment than a scathing remark. Series 1 is absolutely the best looking one! That's the one I'd have to do if I ever got one, flat floor or not! Quite tight footwell anyway. Series 2 though seems to be essentially the same car which is quite intriguing for the HUGE price difference. I've heard the Series 3 had by far the worst build quality out of the three because of the move to British Leyland that really cheapened an already frugal mindedly developed car, Sir William Lyons was supposed to be infamous about how many corners were cut. V12 sounds like a nightmare to maintain, ditto the GT focus. Especially back in the 70s cars I'd think rusted within a few years, so I can't entirely blame Jaguar on that! My grandfather had a Mk2 Escort that survived just about 3 years before disintegrating in Belgium which is astonishing to think about now.
Over the moon with how this came out, hope you enjoy this video as much as I enjoyed making it!
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I remember when I first saw one back in 1961 it was like a Rocket ship from outer space I have 2 of them now a roadster and a coupe both Series 1 1962 Cars Great video nice to see your Enthusiasm for a younger Person
Thank you so much!
I pinched myself seeing four in real life and honestly all these years later they're still a showstopper, I cannot imagine what it must've been like in 1961!
@@paulmarriner5906 Wow 1961 tell me as a young Kid that was a brand new spanking car 3 triple wipers glass over the lights same as DB5 indicators/ park lights over front bumpers rear lights over rear bumpers 3.8 buckets seats chrome dash and Center console, the clocks 9-1 compression ratio Pistons triple SU carbs tell me did everybody went crazy for them also did you see loads off them driving around on roads back then Roadsters were slightly cheaper than FHC. amazingly. 2 Etypes could buy a Pagoda they was £5500 in 1965 wow house was £2500. Go on tell me in 1961 or through 60s about Etypes
Dad’s Series1 4.2 Roadster had original factory hardtop also they are rare. Still have 1 of my dads spare original Etype steering wheel and headlamp glass in loft must be up there now 25 years +
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who needs a healthy spine when you have a jaaaaaaaaaag
“I broke my spine”
Oooooooh 😭
“in my Jaaaaag”
😎🤷♂️
No but seriously other than swinging your legs over, I’d love to see how much easier it’d be to enter a FHC!
Nice jaaaaaag, I also like the hardtop better
Hardtop would absolutely be the way to go! That '66 4.2 was fantastic. Thank you!
I was so spoilt as a child dad owned series1 Etype 4.2 Roadster the one in vid is a 3.8 Roadster then when I was 18 my father bought me a 230SL then at 23 I owned 280SL Pagoda owned a stag also last one on a T reg 1979. they are not worth much. Etype Series1 £200,000 and 280 Pagoda not not 230 or 250SL they are half price stags are silly cheap £10-£15,000
@@joemorgan636 Stags are silly cool considering that, the big surprise of the lineup, my favorite non-Jag in retrospect! One with a TR6 engine or a Rover V8 would be really cool.
Pagodas have really soared in value.
Quite cool selection, you and your dad had great taste👌
@@Petrospect Mercedes Pagoda and Etype are just a different level off machine reason why Stag you can buy four really nice examples £10-£15,000 and Etype and Merc Pagoda £200,000 major difference
@@joemorgan636 Absolutely! E-Types have some issues but nothing like the Stag. E-Types also I think were poster cars and the impact they’ve had I don’t think you can put much of a price on.
The only upside is they made a fair few of them at least, some say it’d be a car that’d cost millions had they made as few Ferraris of the same period they made (even if it was much more technologically advanced).
I was shocked at the quality too as I mentioned in the video, I can see why people started lamenting plastics in cars, it looked beautifully constructed, that S1.
I can definitely see why they’re worth that much! If for nothing else for being a great piece of rolling art and automotive history.
@@Petrospect was it you talking on Video I thought the man who owned Series1 Roadster was rude, saying to you how comes you know about these cars why shouldn’t you he is an idiot got really no time got people like that.
Let me teach you something okay only downside on Jaguar Etype was exactly made slot off them build quality in 1960s was poor they use to Rust like crazy but I have to remember back in those days. The weather was horrendous in Great Britain and parts of Europe.
Only Etype that’s worth serious money is Series1 either, 3.8 and 4.2 version is Fixed head Coupe or Roadster but big big money is 3.8 Flat Floor external bonnet locks. The Series 2 was okay but people weren’t mad over it but they were more affordable also Series 3 V12 same again even cheaper.
But but Series 1 is the big boy and the good looker but extremely expensive
@@joemorgan636 Thank you for your comments; it was me! I'm thankful he gave me the time of day when I felt like I was being a bit of a bother but yeah nobody really expects someone as young as me to know quite so much about these cars 🤣so I took it as a term of endearment than a scathing remark.
Series 1 is absolutely the best looking one!
That's the one I'd have to do if I ever got one, flat floor or not! Quite tight footwell anyway.
Series 2 though seems to be essentially the same car which is quite intriguing for the HUGE price difference.
I've heard the Series 3 had by far the worst build quality out of the three because of the move to British Leyland that really cheapened an already frugal mindedly developed car, Sir William Lyons was supposed to be infamous about how many corners were cut. V12 sounds like a nightmare to maintain, ditto the GT focus.
Especially back in the 70s cars I'd think rusted within a few years, so I can't entirely blame Jaguar on that! My grandfather had a Mk2 Escort that survived just about 3 years before disintegrating in Belgium which is astonishing to think about now.