Can anyone help me identify the walnut series 3 window sills pictured below? I purchased them from a cabinet maker in Connecticut that made my new burled walnut dashboard. He had them but did not know about their origin. When they arrived I was thrilled, as you can see, they are magnificent. They obviously had never been used and were in an unmarked cardboard box wrapped in a fibrous type of batting material that was used in the US in the 30’s and 40’s. My very early series 3 has plain door panels with a vinyl covered steel window sill exactly the size of the new walnut ones. The walnut ones came with no mounting provisions so I had to take an original set of the window sills, remove the vinyl covering, and drill screw holes in the steel substrate to mount the walnut ones. Then they just slipped into the car like the stock ones.

I have to believe they were factory made, they are perfectly symmetrical and the back side was machined. Were they a dealer installed option, an aftermarket piece? Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated. Jeff

 

Those are Luscious!
California sun would make short work of them though.
(';')

 

Not sure of they're a one-off or if some outfit was actually producing them. Not 'factory', though.

Never seen anything like them before for.

Cheers
DD

 

Absolutely terrific Jeff. . . and way more attractive than the factory units which have characteristic bevel edging. I'm usually somewhat reticent about custom "improvements" to Jaguars, but these look superb. Now turning green with envy.

Cheers,

Ken

 

I remember seeing wood trim like that on 50s and 60s Jaguar cars at car shows. I'm pretty confident jaguar and other manufacturers switched over to foam padded areas for safety reasons. A primitive form of passive safety in the 70's. In the event of a crash it just would have been safer to have foam in strategic head banging areas rather than hard wood. By the 80s improvements in seatbelt technology negated the rational of having strategic foam placed around the interior of a cabin.

 

As others have said, these are definitely, absolutely not made by Jaguar, nor were they an option. These look to be "one off" embellishments. Your car is now unique!

 

Agree, they don't look factory. But, I do not claim to be an expert on Jaguar manifestations. or any other kind of "expert' for that matter.


But, they sure look neat. I could live with a set on my car easily...


As to the sun, wherever it might be. Lots of and frequent high carnauba wax....


Gonna go play outside before the f's go nuts...
Carl