Disassembly is easy to do but it can also be the undoing of an ongoing restoration. That’s been a clear lesson in project car ownership for yours truly: finish what you start. When life gets in the way, days can turn into weeks between improvement or rebuild jobs that get interrupted. What seemed easy to remember when you began tearing out the interior or rebuilding the motor can appear significantly more complicated when you finally get the time to put it all back together. For the owner of this 1967 Jaguar E-Type spotted here n eBay by reader Jim S, it looks like clearing this project out of his crowded garage might help get another car closer to completion!

I remember the first time I took apart the interior in my ’87 325is. It seemed pretty straight-forward to pull apart the center console, front and rear seats, kick panels, the parcel shelf, and so on. Even the steering wheel came off with ease. But when it came time to move the car and I had to throw it back together rather quickly, I completely spaced on how to rewire the horn and for a solid 15 minutes, the horn blared constantly! Not helping things was the fact that I had a compact Italian air horn installed, and as it pierced the air of my tiny storage garage and bounced off the cement walls, I nearly cut the wires in half to regain peace and quiet. I didn’t, just pulled a fuse, but it reminded me how important it was to watch how things came out so you can more easily put them back in!

For owners of projects like this one, it might get to the point where it’s easier to move it on to the next person for re-assembly. Just looking at the car in its disheveled state, especially when surrounded by other projects in similar condition, can likely seem overwhelming. If you read the ad, you’ll notice this closed-headlight E-Type Series 1 is in New York while the seller is in Los Angeles. I have a hard enough time managing parts and car storage within a 5 mile radius; it seems unfathomable to do it from across the country. But then again, if it was safely stored with friends or family, it may actually be almost too easy to sock away projects wherever I found them! Perhaps it’s a good thing my network is almost exclusively on the eastern seaboard.

I tell my wife often my goal in life is to live in a place where my garage is attached to the house and my projects are safely stored within. It’s such a simple pleasure, but I am deeply envious of people who can wake up, grab their coffee and wander out to the garage to tinker. This Jaguar is ripe for restoration, with minimal body rot and a ton of spares. Being an early car and a genuine 2-seater, not the less desirable 2+2 configuration, this E-Type will surely find a new home that brings it closer to as-new condition. I hope the seller keeps in touch with the new owner to see what could have been! So tell us, would the scale of re-assembly needed scare you away, or does this project E-Type represent the perfect opportunity to restore the car on your terms? Let us know in the comments below.