Pendine is offering this Jaguar E-Type Series 1 3.8 FHC – ‘Giddy Minx’ for sale. Giddy Minx has been built to deliver the ultimate authentic fast road experience, combining performance with drivability.
Giddy Minx
Chassis: 888197
Registration: EBY 734B
Giddy Minx, as Pendine affectionately refer to their own E-Type was built as a fast road car, specifically with swift, European motoring in mind. The idea was to produce a rapid, comfortable coupe with upgrades that would increase performance, handling, safety and durability, with the intention of competing in non-FIA European events. Pendine started with a sound, matching numbers car recently imported from the USA and over a two year period Pendine completely restored the car.
Visually, Pendine wanted it to look like a three year old SCCA racer. Pendine left the lovely, original chrome, fitted old, worn leather to the seats. Mechanically, everything has been completely gone through and rebuilt. Pendine like to think it’s the kind of car that by 1967 would have been worked on during the evenings, driven to the circuit, raced and driven home. This is the full specification:
Engine
3.8 litre engine
Complete strip and rebuild, including acid stripping the block
Skimmed head, 9:1 pistons, completely rebuilt
Piper D-Type Camshafts
Cosworth pistons
Balanced conrods
Standard crank, crack tested and balanced
New alloy sump
Broadsport competition core plugs
Uprated rear main oil seal
Competition exhaust system with Bob Beere manifolds
High torque starter
Alternator
Alloy competition Marsten style radiator
Refurbished fuel tank
Braided fuel hose
Facet fuel pump
Gearbox
Rebuilt full-synchro Jaguar 4.2 unit with uprated layshaft
9 inch heavy duty clutch
Lightened, balanced flywheel
New propshaft
Brakes
Zeus 4 pot alloy front brakes
Coopercraft performance alloy rear brake callipers
Kunifer brake lines
Fast road pads
Coated braided hoses
Remote easy bleed rear brake lines
Brake bias valve
Suspension
Front Gaz fully adjustable, with adjustable reaction plate
Bob Beere 1 inch anti roll bar
Fully rebuilt rear cradle with new bearings throughout
Rear Gaz fully adjustable coilover shock absorbers
Standard rear anti roll bar
Limited Slip Differential
Rebuilt steering rack
Cadmium plated suspension components, as per factory
New custom built wire wheels; standard 5” front wheels, with Competition outside laced 6” rear wheels
Dunlop SP Sport Tyres
Interior
Bespoke interior with competition bucket seats
Body
Complete strip down
New floors
New sills inner and outer
New boot floor
Original bonnet retained and realigned
Doors stripped, rebuilt and realigned
USA style UK number plates
The build costs, terrifyingly, are in excess of £100,000. Completed in December 2021, with over 2,000 miles of running in and snagging have been completed, with numerous events in Europe under its belt. Finished in Warwick Grey with a red interior, it is a matching numbers car.
The name Giddy Minx comes from a pulp fiction short story from the 1930s.
“A shady Private Dick refers to a blond client, who has asked him to investigate her husband’s death, as “a damned Giddy Minx, all lips and talk that I can’t work out. She’s either blind with love for me or playing me for the fool. I’ll play her both ways, see where I get”. When he realises it was, in fact, her who murdered her husband, she cuts his throat.”
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