Just completed - Concourse Restoration

Just completed. Concours restoration. Stunning. Ordered from the factory with SS100 headlights.
Original factory Suede Green exterior with Olive Green leather interior. 
Professionally rebuilt 95 mph 2-1/2 Liter OHV inline 6 cyl. matching numbers engine, gear box and chassis.
Full Classic [CCCA].   
Tom Griffith 608-999-0366 (no texts) 
Madison, Wisconsin   USA                    

Mechanically, I have test driven the car on multiple occasions with absolutely no issues.  
  
Parts to restore this motorcar were sourced from 7 countries;  
including the factory original accessory roadlamps, and factory roadlamp  
stone guards, and headlight stone guards.
 
Commencing with its numbers matching 2-1/2 liter engine [OHV] rebuilt with an NOS set 
of main bearings [most likely the last set in existence and were still in the greased waxed paper
wrappings from the Coventry manufacturing plant].  

Rated at 95 mph. Mated to this powerful engine is the matching numbers 4 speed transmission. 
 
This car starts immediately no matter how long it's been sitting and runs 
like a Swiss watch; shifting through the 4 forward gears with ease.
Sold new for $385 GBP. 
 
This beautifully restored 'fresh' 2-1/2 Liter Open Tourer had once belonged to  
Vice President of the United States Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. 
I purchased this car in its original untouched preserved running/driving condition,  
and upon dismantling the car in preparation for the restoration found the  
Vice President's brass belt buckle and gold initialed "H.H.H." watch bob  
underneath the back seat. 
These two items accompany the purchase of the car.  

Although the convertible top is not pictured, I had the top bows, including the 
thick wooden header bow[bolster] made in England by a marque specialist 
and it accompanies the car. 

Along with the assembled bows comes all the new metal framework for the side curtains 
as well as all of the correct English hardware necessary to provide your upholsterer. 
  
Although the odometer reads 21,170; which is the mileage when the car was  
discovered in a barn, there are only about 75 miles on the newly rebuilt, matching numbers
motor and gear box. I purposely told the instrument restorer to leave the original  
miles on the odometer rather than setting it back to zero. 
 
I did add two switches located on the left side of the dashboard that I had  
left over from a '37 Bentley to separate the side lights on the fenders  
from the headlights and roadlamps. This car is equipped with its original  
factory remote starter button mounted on the starter motor. 

This Open Tourer is the only such motorcar with a side-mounted spare tire; rather  
than the typical rear-mounted spare. This allows for much easier access to  
the gas tank. Also in the rear of the car is a tool tray I had built which is  
the entire width of the back end and incorporated into the body. 
 
Why is the 2-1/2 liter more valuable than the 1-1/2 liter? 
The 2-1/2 liter was much faster and most often was accompanied by the  
larger SS2 chassis supporting a more substantial body such as this  
Open Tourer or a Saloon. Did I mention the 2-1/2 liter was much faster? 
 
What goes with the purchase of this car?
 
 -The shift knob is an original 1930's beautiful Bakelite. 
-Steering wheel boss [hub], column sleeves and controls; and bottom end 
attachments for dipper and throttle. Currently throttle is on a pull lever in the  
center of the dashboard.  . 
-Original spare parts catalog with corresponding part numbers  
from SS Jaguar 1936. 64 pages. 
-Original prospective buyer fold-out brochure introducing the  
new SS Jaguar for 1936. 3 pages. 
-Original 1936 advertising brochure for the new SS called a 'Jaguar'.  

What is not included, but can be negotiated, is the rarest of the rare: 
 
16 page, very large [14" x 9-1/2"] silver embossed and debossed mint condition  
'dealership catalog' outlining all of the different models, available engine sizes,  
drawings of each model, and exterior and interior colors and trim packages  
offered in 1936 for the SS Jaguar automobiles. This catalog also lists all the  
specifications of each of the motor sizes offered and their related mechanical  
components. It still has the front and rear cellophane tissues to protect the  
first and last pages as well as the tied string bound folded edge of the catalog. 
 
Only the finest wood was used to make the door panels. Included are  
African purple heart and English walnut burl. Interestingly enough, when  
the motor was rebuilt, the rebuilder noticed that one of the freeze plugs  
was replaced with a coin from New Zealand dated 1933, picturing a  
Kiwi bird. I told him to leave it there, and so there it remains for eternity. 
 
After six years of vigorously attempting to save most of the original body,  
I contracted two of the best coach builders in England to make another one. 
Trevor Davis of Circuit Bodies [metal beater], and Ken Sparks [wooden coach 
builder] took on the task. So as not to take any chances with ocean freight,

 I flew the body into Chicago inside an enormous crate and then hired a  
customs broker to receive the crate and release it from US Customs.  
The body fit so perfectly that it only required four very large bolts [two on  
each side] to secure the body to the frame.  
 
There are two secret compartments built into the floor in the back seat.  
The first compartment is easily accessed if someone knows where to look.  
The second compartment is behind a false steel panel behind the 
first compartment. 

35 photos can be found on my Hemmings.com advert.

email:  [email protected]     Tom Griffith       Price is $190,000 or best offer