BarnFinds has become a truly global community, with readers all over the world. When we started this site, we had no idea we would make friends with people on every continent. We love to hear from all our BFF’s (Barn Finds Friends?) no matter where they are located. The language barrier can be a bit troublesome at times, but so far we have been lucky and been able to piece things together. We recently received a great submission from Thierry D for an amazing Jaguar that is set to go to auction in Fontainebleau, France. This was one of the times that we got lucky, as the listing is both in French and English. Even if you are thousands of miles from this 1964 Jaguar E-Type, it has some very interesting history and is definitely worth a look. Find it listed here on Auction.fr where is will hit the block on June 22.

This Jag was found in what appears to be an old garage, where it spent the past 42 years! The car looks to have been preserved very well. The original owner was at one time a driver for Bugatti and was the last Frenchman to race for Bugatti in International Grand Prix. Like most race car drivers, the owner loved to go fast. Shortly after taking ownership of this E-Type, he decided it just wasn’t fast enough. After a trip to his race car mechanic in Molsheim, France, the E-Type’s top speed was 7 mph faster. We would love to know what exactly the mechanic did to it, but without paperwork or pulling it apart we won’t know for sure. Any Jaguar experts out there with any ideas as to what a might have done to squeeze the extra power and of it?

After it was tuned, the odometer was reset back to zero. Someone had the sense to document the original mileage beforehand and recorded it as having 40k kilometers on it. It than saw another 6k kilometers before going into storage, so if we do the math we find that this has just 28k miles on it! The seller claims the car is in great shape inside and out, but doesn’t state whether it currently runs or not. Cars go into storage for a number of reasons, but the most common is mechanical failure. Perhaps whatever Oswald the mechanic did caused the engine to fail prematurely? As long as the block isn’t damaged, it shouldn’t be impossible to get the original motor running again. Parts might get a bit pricey, but this investment is only going to go up in value.

After looking through the auction catalog, we spotted several cars at this event that we would love to learn more about. Sadly their descriptions are in French only. Perhaps one of our bilingual BFFs could translate a few of them for us? Be sure to take a look at the catalog yourself and let us know if there are any offerings that stand out to you!