What you have here is essentially a specialist’s piece: an early Jaguar E-Type in flat-floor roadster configuration, with a louvered bonnet and the number noted as #876258. For people who follow these cars, “flat floor” is not trivia—it refers to the earliest E-Types, with first-phase construction details that are sought after precisely because they belong to the initial production period. This is not a ready-to-drive car, but it can be an interesting base, especially if the goal is a period-correct restoration. The seller’s timeline is fairly typical of an American garage find. The car is said to have been in Colorado, then moved in 1974 to Billings, Montana, purchased around 1995, stored indoors long-term, and brought in 2006 to Everett, Washington, where it has reportedly remained in the same garage stall ever since. One important claim is an engine rebuild carried out sometime between 1990 and 1995, with fewer than 500 miles driven afterward, and the seller states the engine number matches (while the transmission and rear axle numbers have not been checked). The other side of the story matters just as much: it last ran in 2002 and has been sitting since, so any “recommissioning” should be viewed as a full return-to-service process, not a simple tune-up.

The description and photos also point to the real risk areas. The car has been repainted multiple times (originally white, later gold, then red by 1995), and—more critically—there are sections left as bare metal for decades. During the engine-out period for the rebuild and ceramic coating on the exhaust manifold, the previous owner reportedly stripped and repainted the under-hood framework red and stripped paint around the cowl and the lower rear areas of the bonnet, leaving those areas exposed since roughly 1990. Even if there is “no rust through” at a glance, decades of bare metal call for careful inspection of corrosion, seams, and edges. Add to that the declared body damage on the bonnet (upper front right) and the right front bonnet panel, plus the uncertainty around the soft top: the car has a hardtop, but the seller has not seen the soft top raised.

The included extra parts are a positive sign for a restoration project: wheels, knock-offs, leather material for interior panels and seats, and notably an additional non-welded louver bonnet in addition to the welded-louver bonnet currently on the car. That does not eliminate cost, but it can reduce the usual hunt for hard-to-find components. In short, this is not a “show-ready” E-Type—it is a restoration candidate with one very specific strength (an early flat-floor roadster) and the usual variables that come with long storage (mechanical systems to be fully recommissioned, corrosion to verify, bodywork to address, completeness to confirm). If the chassis and numbers check out, it is a base that makes sense precisely because there are not many left in this earliest configuration—but it should be approached as a project, not an easy bargain. Find it for sale at $120,000 here in Everett, WA.