The 'E' Type Forum

There's a similar story years ago about a lady complaining to the garage that her Morris Minor was running rough. The car went in and out several times but the garage couldn't detect any problem. Eventually when she came back yet again they suggested she drive one of their mechanics and see if she c...

You're forgetting that we're British. We're born with a unique ability to get all nostalgic about things we're too young to have experienced or which never actually existed.....

Not sure it quite works like that. There are plenty of cars from the '20s and '30s that are still very collectible and still command very high prices (and only yesterday I received a Bonhams catalogue with a very nice Stutz Bearcat in it). Presumably not everyone buying these is a 110-year-old who l...

Any other central (zone 2 anyway!) London owners here? Yes, me! :bigrin: Funnily enough, one's 22 year old daughter, who really can't see what the big deal is about the Old Man's old car, went to a party over Christmas and was slightly horrified to find that the lad who was hosting it had a massive...

To be fair, although I don't know him personally, through many years of reading Auto Italia I know of Roberto - he's one of the best current motoring journalists around, a pretty decent racer in his own right, has driven more Italian cars (road, race and rally) than you can shake a stick at, and own...

Jeremy wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 21, 2018 9:44 pm

Copying a v elegant old Habitat design, examples of which are to be found on eBay for a couple of grand....

You know what they say: old Habitats die hard.....

And a Merry XKEmas to one and all from me too

Simon

Heuer wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 06, 2018 2:56 pm

Yes, I had an epoxy paint and it was treacherous when wet to the point where I felt it was life threatening.

This is The Good Lord's way of telling you not to take your E-type out in the wet....

If it's for towing it's probably intended to attach to the front of an E-type.....

Did someone mention bacon?

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Well if we’re getting picky then the exhaust tail pipe is wrong 😂😂😂😂 it’s a 4.2 one But what other answers would you expect from us lot And is it just me, or does it look somewhat smaller than a real one?.... https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0077/5464/5593/products/DSCF0154_4000x2677.jpg?v=1541603...

Gutting

Top man. Well done

Ah, but in a sense it is your Vehicle Identification Number number

Then again, for much the same reason people seem to get annoyed with me when I refer to a Football ball. Still, I'm right and they're wrong

Heuer wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 23, 2018 1:09 pm

None of those are really eligible, in the case of the Ford there was no model badge

Ah yes, but absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence......

A work of art!

Trivia: The Factory put the E-Type badge above the Jaguar one and as a result it has become one of the few cars in history known first by the model name with the manufacturers name as a suffix; it will always be an "E-Type Jaguar". Closely pipped to be first to claim that honour by the Model T Ford...

Indeed. See here: https://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-pistonheads/jd-classics-enters-administration/38743 Whilst it's clear what shenanigans led up to it, you've got to feel sorry for all the undoubted fine race and restoration specialists who work there and who currently face great uncertainty...

Positioned strangely close to the Bonhams Goodwood Revival auction. Might that have been a factor?

Also bear in mind that, as a car driver, the "life" the life-saver saves might not necessarily be your own..... I don't know of any cars whose mirror coverage is immune from blind-spots. Even my bang-up-to-date family car with huge great elephant-ear door mirrors recognises this fact with visual and...