E Type Coupe 888 RYA where are you? Can anyone help.

[Hoonabator]

A friend use to own this car and she was wondering if it's still around. (Could be RYA 888 can't remember what way round the plate was)
Think it is an early Coupe, was Primrose but she thinks it was painted Graphite/gunmetal grey after she and her late husbard sold it.

Any info would be great.

Thanks for reading.

[gforceg]

Seems like it hasn't been on the road since the early 90s.

The vehicle details for 888 RYA are:
Date of Liability 01 11 1992
Date of First Registration 03 08 1962
Year of Manufacture Not Available
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 3781cc
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type PETROL
Export Marker N
Vehicle Status Unlicensed
Vehicle Colour WHITE
Vehicle Type Approval Not Available

[80quattro]

If it's any help, HPi shows a colour change from grey to white 8/8/1989.

Last registered keeper was 3/3/2008. Good luck locating it.

[DBSV8]

updated in 2002

XKE data

has the Jaguar registered on the database
as a 3.8 chassis number 860747



for sale

This car was for sale in the classified section of the 6/99 issue of Jaguar World magazine.

Ad text:
1962 Jaguar 3.8 E-type. Road/race car. Ex-Peter Preston HSCC Roadsports Champoinship, etc. UK registration: 888 RYA. Chassis number 860747. Full history from new. Restored in early 1990s with all new steel panels and rebuilt mechanically to FIA race specification. Comes with competition wire wheels and road Yokohama tyres and period JA Pearce alloy wheels with Dunlop historic race tyres. Full FIA registration and paperwork, along with full MoT test and road legal. Eligible for any prestigious race or rally event and fully road legal. GBP32,500.

its certainly got a lot of history looks like it was changed from Primrose to white after your friend owned it , it was then restored to FIA spec , adverised for sale in 1999.

As last change of keeper is in 2008 but on SORN ? it looks likely that it is either only used for track day events or is hiding in someones garage.

Edited by DBSV8 on Thursday 27th October 06:05

[LotusOmega375D]

I thought the OP said it was a Coupé! Must have been chopped if it's that one.

[Elderly]

LotusOmega375D said:

I thought the OP said it was a Coupé! Must have been chopped if it's that one.

General question - Whilst I'm sure that many coupes were chopped, could you then get FIA papers as an Open Top, if the original identity (donor car) was for a coupe?

[Roy C]

"This car registration 888 RYA has adapted for racing driven at Silverstone as car #41 by Barry Wood"

[MX7]

Donington Historic Festival 2011

It looks like Barry Wood is the guy to get hold of.

[LotusOmega375D]

It seems to have morphed from a regular coupé into a clone of this US-supplied original Lightweight, which was unearthed from storage about 10 years ago (it featured on the front cover of one of the classic car mags).

http://www.xkedata.com/cars/detail/?car=850660

The original still appears to be campaigned and may well have been car #23 in the Fordwater Trophy at the Goodwood Revival.

http://www.motorsport.com/vintage/photo/main-galle...

[LordBretSinclair]

Sorry, I'm getting confused in my advancing years. We are talking about 2 cars here??
850660 is the "real one" and 860747 is the clone (with FIA papers) and the RYA registration?? Correct?

Edited by LordBretSinclair on Thursday 27th October 10:30

[LotusOmega375D]

Yes it seems that 860747 (888 RYA) has changed from the regular coupé road car stated in the OP into a look-alike of original US-supplied Lightweight roadster 850660 (I don't know if this has a UK reg., but it may briefly have been one of the 5***WK cars), similar to the Briggs Cunningham LM entries.

[LordBretSinclair]

Thanks, that's what I thought. Interesting advert in 1999 then as it states "history from new" and the car comes with FIA paperwork. Devalues somewhat FIA registration or have requirements tightened up since the late 90s??.

[rallycross]

More likely the OP details incorrect and it was always an open top model and has been developed into this.

[LotusOmega375D]

Maybe not. This old advert offers it as a FHC. So could have been chopped after the accident in late 1980's

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-pa...

[LordBretSinclair]

Love the wording of that advert "Fully restored following an accident at Brands Hatch in the late 1980s and now resembling a factory ''lightweight'' car, "

Its not a clone, a replica or a recreation but is now "resembling a factory ''lightweight'' car"

Isn't the English language wonderful?????

Edited by LordBretSinclair on Thursday 27th October 12:21

[LotusOmega375D]

OK so it might have had a steel tub, body, block and bonnet, but it did have an alloy bootlid! Gee-wizz: that doesn't really make it a Lightweight does it?

[limjamrace]

How i wish all the lovely cars that i have owned had evolved into this category..Cloned or not!
Oh well .They are all just bits of metal anyway..Who cares

[DBSV8]

LotusOmega375D said:

It seems to have morphed from a regular coupé into a clone of this US-supplied original Lightweight, which was unearthed from storage about 10 years ago (it featured on the front cover of one of the classic car mags).

http://www.xkedata.com/cars/detail/?car=850660

The original still appears to be campaigned and may well have been car #23 in the Fordwater Trophy at the Goodwood Revival.

http://www.motorsport.com/vintage/photo/main-galle...

where did you get the details for chassis 850660 ?

its a different car , the XKE data site has 888 RYA listed as chassis 860747 not 850660

link here

http://www.xkedata.com/cars/detail/?car=860747


888 RYA. Chassis number 860747

[LotusOmega375D]

I know. That's what I have written.

[Hoonabator]

So is this about right.

Primrose yellow coupe sold by my friend.

Painted grey.

CRASHED at brands and rebuilt as a Coupe in the late 80's ('89) and painted white.

Wonder if it was rebuilt as a drop top even though ad states FHC. Or maybe converted in '92 when it was taken off the road. Maybe converted at that point to full on race car hense not on the road.

Sold in @ '96 http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-pa...

Sold again in '99 at which point it is a Drop head http://www.xkedata.com/cars/detail/?car=860747

And currently actively raced. http://www.flickr.com/photos/43701995@N04/57339300...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/52230873...


Totally amazing guys thank you very much :-)