[newfreep]

Jaguar XKE

[mdittmar]

They leak alot of oil,but I liked the XJS.

[yarddog]

Same here. The first time I saw an XKE I was hooked. The most beautiful car I could imagine. I was 16 in 1963.

I almost got something close. Daddy had agreed to buy me a used car if I would attend the local Junior College.

In 1965 we went down to Ft. Walton Bch. and began checking the dealers. Fr. Walton Motors had a Jaguar XK 150 in pretty good shape except the engine needed rebuilding. The said they would rebuild it for another $300. They were a sports car dealer and knew how to rebuild those six cylinder engines.

$300 plus another $300 was just more than Daddy would pay so I could not get it. I ended up with a 55 Ford with a 272 and a two barrel. It had a 411 to 1 rear end, overdrive and it ran a way better than I would have guessed.

My best friend’s Daddy had just bought a new Ford with a 352 and a four barrel. We took them out in the country and guess what? The old 55 beat the 352 fairly easily.

[Afterguard]

Mine too... I was 16 in 1965 and owned/drove a 1959 MGA Fixed Head, which was pretty awesome for a kid. But I wanted a XKE roadster soooo bad! Still do for that matter. Unfortunately those Series 1 XKEs go for big six-figure numbers today.

[JaguarXKE]

My dream car in High School was a 1967 Jaguar E-Type. And oh yeah, I worked two jobs as a junior and senior and bought one. This is a picture of my high school car, a 1967 Jaguar E-Type Coupe (incorrectly called XKE by Americans) as it looks today. It is currently owned by a gent in Denver (I sold it in 72 when I entered the US Air Force and it changed hands a couple times). Today I own a 1967 E-Type roadster which I bought in 1981 or 2. The red C5 in the background is mine.

[super7man]

XKE Jaguar was mine too but I had to settle for this.

Have you noticed the bottom falling out on the prices of XKEs lately?

[az_gila]

My preference was for that other early-60s UK car with dual OH cams and four wheel disk brakes...:^)

A Lotus Elan like Emma Peel used to drive.

4-5 years later I found a 1964 one in S. Mich. with a blown up engine - caused by weak con rods on the Lotus modified Ford Cortina engine.

It was cheap because in 1971 no one in the US knew what it was, and often even thought is was a slow Fiat 850! The insurance company just asked how many cylinders it had and charged less than my Ford Maverick.

Fixed the engine and my teenage car dreams came true, it was even the same color as Emma's, and I even managed to not kill myself in it.

This was a 1972 Polaroid pic I recently found -

It kept up with a lot of the 60’s muscle cars up to 70mph or so and certainly lost them when there was a curve in the road....:^)

It also never rusted like my Fiat 124 Sport Coupe shown in the backbground -

[emotionalcripple]

Amen!

[sheana]

There was a show on with a British actor called the Equalizer. He drove a black Jag. I fell in love and wanted a black Jag. In 2006 I finally could afford one and bought a black and silver S Type. Still have it.

[Jim Noble]

Jaguar XKE

My father HAD a pale primrose yellow Jaguar XKE V-12 (required 102 octane leaded gas) when I was sixteen, but he wouldn't let me drive it.

[JimRed]

Jaguar XKE

Amen! Except it didn’t come out until I was 17...1961 if I recall correctly.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Mine was a 1969 jag XKE. They cost $5,000 brand new. LOL!