2023-09-16 18:55:56 | pauls writes:

Car to be at auction 9/23

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-402---1936-ss-jaguar-15-litre-saloon/

Auction description:

20th Sep, 2023, 30th Anniversary Sale at The Imperial War Museum | Duxford, Cambridgeshire

Lot 402

1936 SS Jaguar 1.5 Litre Saloon

Over £70,000 expenditure on full restoration

Estimate £35,000 - £45,000

Registration No: JC 3948

Chassis No: 20888

MOT: Exempt

First registered in November 1936

In current ownership since April 1989

Fully restored by SS-Jaguar specialist between 2001 and 2008

Still in impeccable condition cosmetically and mechanically

Invoices on file detailing over £70,000 spent in current ownership

Offered with extensive history file

According to an accompanying extract from the Jaguar Daimler Archives from 1989, the SS 1½ Litre offered here was signed off at the factory on the 30th of October 1936 and first registered on the 3rd of November that same year. Then, as now, the car was registered JC 3948, with chassis number 20888 and engine number 59307 with body number 0889 fitted from new, finished in Suede Green. UK-registered until 1975, the car was then exported to Co. Cork, only to be re-imported into the UK in 1989, where the current vendor acquired it at auction the same year. Between 2001 and 2007 a full nut-and-bolt restoration was undertaken at leading SS-Jaguar specialist Davenport Cars of Tetworth, Bedfordshire with detailed invoices on file showing in excess of £68,000 being spent on bringing the car to as-new condition. Fastidiously maintained thereafter, the present condition of ‘JC 3948’ can only be described as ‘as flawless as possible’ and it is without doubt the best example we have ever seen. Regularly exercised by the current vendor, the car is said to drive and handle very well and at the time of consignment the engine started up from cold without hesitation or smoke from the exhaust and sounded very smooth on tick over. Offered with a current V5, an old-style buff logbook, an extract from the Jaguar Daimler Archives and a massive History File containing a sheaf of detailed invoices together with photographs of the restoration, this SS 1½ Litre Saloon is possibly the finest example extant and would make an exceptional addition to any collection.

2025-06-02 14:50:25 | pauls writes:

Car returns to auction 6/25

www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-1936-ss-jaguar-15-litre-saloon/

Auction description:

25th Jun, 2025, The Millbrook Sale, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire

1936 SS Jaguar 1.5 Litre Saloon

Over £70,000 expenditure on a full restoration

Estimate £26,000 - £34,000

Otherwise same photos and above description