My new E-Type is now quietly resting at its new home. I made the trip (about
275 miles) without any need of the emergency kit I had prepared (cell phone,
AAA card, AMEX card). Despite the potential problem of the slipping clutch,
I quickly learned how best to avoid serious slipping, and it posed absolutely
no threat to the journey.
I was basically a good boy, keeping the revs between 30 and 35 hundred RPM,
although there were at least two exciting intervals with testosterone-driven
BMWs in which the E did not embarrass, even with the risk of clutch slippage!
What I wasn’t really prepared for was the profound impact the car would have
on people in other cars. There were more enthusiastic thumbs-up, happy
smiles, and rubber-neckings, than I could have imagined! When I stopped to
refuel actual conversation between total strangers was precipitated by this
ravishing machine!
I always used to get this when I walked my dogs; people who otherwise
wouldn’t go out of their way to nod hello would stop to talk because of the
pet. So I guess the Jag is just a different kind of a pet! I’m glad we
E-Type owners can evoke such human attitudes in a world that is increasingly
filled with isolated and uninvolved people.
Next week the car goes to Mario and Joe for its new clutch and flywheel
(thank you to everyone who offered comments and advice on that subject),
bottom end gaskets, plus a few minor odds and ends, then it will be drive,
drive, drive! What a rush!
In a message dated 00-05-13 23:07:46 EDT, you write:
<< What I wasn’t really prepared for was the profound impact the car would
have
on people in other cars. There were more enthusiastic thumbs-up, happy
smiles, and rubber-neckings, than I could have imagined! When I stopped to
refuel actual conversation between total strangers was precipitated by this
ravishing machine!
I always used to get this when I walked my dogs; people who otherwise
wouldn’t go out of their way to nod hello would stop to talk because of the
pet. So I guess the Jag is just a different kind of a pet! I’m glad we
E-Type owners can evoke such human attitudes in a world that is increasingly
filled with isolated and uninvolved people.
Next week the car goes to Mario and Joe for its new clutch and flywheel
(thank you to everyone who offered comments and advice on that subject),
bottom end gaskets, plus a few minor odds and ends, then it will be drive,
drive, drive! What a rush!
Warren,
Isn’t it great getting those kinds of reactions from other people? And
inside, you know you didn’t get the car in order to get those reactions but
got it to DRIVE.
So, you get to drive the car and get the admiration too! Pretty cool, huh?
(That’s the way it is with my 66 Corvette, it’s not an E but people still
love it
What I wasn't really prepared for was the profound impact the car would have
on people in other cars. There were more enthusiastic thumbs-up, happy
smiles, and rubber-neckings, than I could have imagined! When I stopped to
refuel actual conversation between total strangers was precipitated by this
ravishing machine!
My wife an I take the E-Type out every weekend. It almost gets
embarrasing sometimes, all of the attention you get! We regularly get
horn honks, big smiles and thumbs up.
Yesterday we even managed to start a fight at a shopping center. A guy
and his wife came out and the guy said to his wife, I’d really like to
have one of those. She started yelling at him about he wasn’t a
teenager anymore and didn’t need to be trying to pick up girls! My wife
almost had a convulsion, she was laughing so hard.
We went to the postoffice and a guy came over and told us he almost
bought one one time but heard they were impossible to work on. Then we
had a couple of folks stop by last night at the drive in theater to
chat.
Gee, how much attention would it attract if the bonnet was painted the
same color as the rest of the car? The bonnet is still black, the rest
of the car is Regency Red.
Definitely not the right getaway car if you wanted to commit a crime!
Gee, how much attention would it attract if the bonnet was painted the
same color as the rest of the car? The bonnet is still black, the rest
of the car is Regency Red.
Definitely not the right getaway car if you wanted to commit a crime!
Paint one side red, the other side blue - that way the witnesses will
contradict one another!
