When an XKE pulled up on the right

[Malpasowildlifer]

once of my favorite tunes! cool car too

 

[Maddog 521]

I wasn't lucky like ya'll with the XKE's. I had to settle for a Jaguar Mark 2. It was a medium sized saloon car that was built in 1962. I drove it for a couple of years and had a lot of fun with it.

 

[XD40inTX]

Why do the British drink their beer warm?

Because Lucas makes their refrigerators.

That's wisdom from a former MGB owner...

 

[LVSteve]

I understand Lucas has the patent on the short circuit.

Lucas light switches: off and dim.

That's incorrect. Lucas switches have three positions: off, dim, and flicker.

It's not just Lucas. One of my British GM cars had an AC Delco light switch that was so poorly made that the heat from the bad joints would distort the plastic enough that the thing would hang up and not move past the parking light setting. Happened late one night in a country lane with a girl I did not know too well. I used the high beam flasher to get nearer civilisation so I could disassemble the console and kludge something together with spare bits in the glove box. Neither her friends or mine believed us when I said we were delayed by a car problem until I made them all go to the car and look.

 

[dcxplant]

Back when I was in college, I could have bought a Ferrari Testa Rossa. Not the 80s car, but the real late 1950s racing car. It was $3,000. Ferrari racing cars, and any old racing cars were not being collected. You couldn't drive it on the street. What good was it? The last I heard, they are now $5 million plus. Of course, when I was in college, I didn't have $3,000.

Those old racing Testa Rossa's are my favorite. What a story!

 

[perrazi]

you are showing your age if you were around when that song was a hit. me too, jan & dean and the beach boys forever.

 

[R. G. Amos]

Gents. If you are in the know, you are supposed to refer to these cars as "E-Types". I bought a new one in '67 and it was a disaster. The one I had was the most unreliable auto I ever owned - the electrics were a joke and the car did not handle all that well. But it certainly was a beautiful (for the time) car.

 

[tork'd]

That's incorrect. Lucas switches have three positions: off, dim, and flicker.

It's not just Lucas. One of my British GM cars had an AC Delco light switch that was so poorly made that the heat from the bad joints would distort the plastic enough that the thing would hang up and not move past the parking light setting. Happened late one night in a country lane with a girl I did not know too well. I used the high beam flasher to get nearer civilisation so I could disassemble the console and kludge something together with spare bits in the glove box. Neither her friends or mine believed us when I said we were delayed by a car problem until I made them all go to the car and look.

and don't even get me started on the window switches!!!!
LVSteve... very nice, but we enjoy the older body styles.