New Members - Lara and Gary Farr Lara Farr - Our love for our E-Type Jaguar began in quite an unusual way. The House Next Door We moved into our new house at Goolwa two years ago. As we were loving the area, we decided to stay there until retirement. We kept looking out our kitchen window down to the house next door, dreaming of the day it would come onto the market so that we could purchase it and essentially extend our own property. What we didn’t know was that there was something very special being housed in the garage in a ‘Barn-State’. After seeing a real estate agent leaving the property, my husband asked our neighbour if they were interested in selling their house to us? What Was In The Shed? The owners agreed to sell the house to us after we agreed to purchase it at the price they wanted. However, they told us the purchase of the house couldn’t be finalised until the old car in the garage that had been sitting around since 1984 got sold. Everything looked rosy until a couple of weeks later when we asked how the sale of the car was going? This made my husband and I begin to feel anxious
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because the owners didn’t want a deposit for the property, they just told us we needed to trust them on their word and we could go ahead with the purchase when the car in the garage was sold.
beauty. Yes, that’s right - a green E-Type Series 2 Jaguar that had been sitting in a ‘Barn Find’ state all these years - just waiting for someone to restore it, right under our noses.
Being an older couple, I was interested in assisting them to sell the car on Carsales or Gumtree to hurry the process along. After speaking to them, and recognising the car in the garage that nobody seemed to want, was actually a classic 1969
Fatal Attraction Well, with a little encouragement my husband was prepared to look at it. Of course, objecting initially, because at the moment we have a 1977 XC Falcon at
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