Hey, I don’t care who buys them now, but I’d LOVE an E-type. Unreliable, hard to fix, but one of the best looking machines evah!
U mean they’re like us?
Very few Jag drivers have turned a bolt on one.
Back in the 80s, one of my college roommates had a 1967 XKE convertible. I got to drive it a couple of times. If I ever win the Powerball...
Absolutely. I had an uncle who was a foreign car mechanic, and he had an 1969 XKE convertible six cylinder. British Racing Green with a tan interior.
He loved that car. Back in the Eighties, he was in his Seventies, and he would get all dressed up in a sports jacket and fedora and drive his Jag around.
Some truck taking a turn from the wrong lane took the front end off of it while he was in the correct lane...
I had an XK8 2005 convertible that generated 395H.P. The fastest I ever had it was 140 and it still had power to go faster but I chickened out. The problem is that here in Arkansas the roads were eating my valence panel alive, especially in the Ozarks. The other problem is the wiring and the fuel pump went out ~every 20K miles and was expensive to repair and there wasn’t one Jaguar repair business in Arkansas. I sold it at 80K miles.
At one time I wanted an E-type that I could restore. However, after rebuilding an old TR-6 I abandoned any future attempts to play with British cars.
The Bruiser and the Cruiser: Driving the ECD Jaguar E-Type V-12 GTO Roadster and V-8 Coupe
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/ecd-jaguar-e-type-v-12-gto-roadster-v-8-coupe-first-drive
I just read this article the other day. The convertible V-12 in British racing green is absolutely gorgeous.
Back in the ‘80s, I owned a 1958 Morgan 4/4 - a great car if you liked fixing stuff. I had a sticker on the rear end with a Union Jack and on it and it Read; “All of the parts falling from this car are of the finest English workmanship”.
I like my roadsters overheated and by the side of the road!
Correct on all points