Thursday, May 02, 2013

Automotif IX...

Yum.
Some cars will make me take a snapshot with the cell phone, and others will make me run and fetch a camera. The Jaguar XK140 roadster falls into the latter category...
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21 comments:

Fuzzy Curmudgeon said...

That would go well with your red hair, I think.

1:11 PM, May 02, 2013
Woodman said...

I can't imagine the classic car wasteland 30 years from now.

I can't exactly see any car from the 80's or 90's apart from the odd Nissan Z, Camaro, or some niche car still running then.

Seems like an awful lot of the "classic" cars today were grocery getters, or convertible roadsters. My neighbor has a Duster, while the guy down the street has a Colt. Both those cars were kind of unremarkable at the time, but now are cool ass cars. I just don't see a 1992 Crown Vic, or the new Nova sitting in someone's driveway while they polish it for two hours.

Where are the $20k collectable cars? Does the Miata count?

1:20 PM, May 02, 2013
Turk Turon said...

Yum! Indeed.
Split windshield, wire wheels and a handicapped card.

1:37 PM, May 02, 2013
Jesse Bogan said...

I am lucky enough to have carved out a niche servicing and restoring old British cars. I have 3 E types, 1 MGA, !MGBGT, 2 sprites, and a TR 250 in here right now.Not only do I get to look at them all day, in the end I get PAID to drive them around after the work is done.Might not get rich, but at least I am not bored.

1:38 PM, May 02, 2013
BobG said...

Back when sports cars were classy.

1:44 PM, May 02, 2013
Stretch said...

Space, Pace, Grace.
Well, two out of three.

1:46 PM, May 02, 2013
Scott J said...

My luck on spotting such things is they usually get gone before I have time to go fetch a camera.

1:47 PM, May 02, 2013
og said...

I like that it's parked in a handicapped spot. All sort of directions you can take that.

1:53 PM, May 02, 2013
JohninMd.(too late?!?) said...

ZOMG!! LUCAS ELECTRICS!!! Run for your lives!!

3:44 PM, May 02, 2013
Anonymous said...

As a teen in the 60s, I had several lusts; cars such as this were one.

Bruce

4:35 PM, May 02, 2013
NotClauswitz said...

I knew a girl in College with a green Triumph TR3, I wanted to kiss her so badly... I was going to say that looks a bit like the Earl Scheibe Blue I had on my '60 Ghia, but the comparison is inadequate and unfair.

4:38 PM, May 02, 2013
Darrell said...

Chas Clifton has a post over at Southern Rockies Nature Blog about a Jaguar Mark 2 burning down to the ground:

http://natureblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-4-am-egg-run.html

5:52 PM, May 02, 2013
Roger said...

Show a photo of a classic British car and half the comments are about Joseph Lucas, unreliability, etc.
Jaguar has produced some of the most beautiful automobiles ever designed. An E type is in permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art.
The 120 was designed by ONE man, unlike virtually every other car in the world and particularly any production car.
In the early 50's the 120 was capable of exceeding 120 mph. Faster than any production auto in the world.
No less reliable than any other high performance car of its time.
Most surviving examples are still capable of exceeding 120 mph. Mine sure is.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p235/RogerS_photo/JagatTarponlodge003.jpg

6:22 PM, May 02, 2013
nbc said...

How about a XK120 for £85k?

6:34 PM, May 02, 2013
Rabbit said...

My dad turned down an XK150 in great condition for $3500 in '74. He also passed on a chance at a couple of Gullwings for 7K-10K. Both in the James C. Leake collection in Muskogee. He kicked himself for years over not picking them up.

Then there was the Ferrari Daytona with 3700 miles I skipped over in '78. Sold at auction in Dallas for 6700. Sigh. I could have retired on holding and selling that one.

1:32 AM, May 03, 2013
perlhaqr said...

I love the proportions on these cars. "Headlights hood hood hood hood hood windshield seatstrunkrearbumper".

:D

9:16 AM, May 03, 2013
Larry said...

That is a sexy beast, but for the full effect it should be green.

9:27 AM, May 03, 2013
Anonymous said...

My first slot cars were that and a gull wing Benz.

Gerry

9:37 AM, May 03, 2013
JD(not the one with the picture) said...

Tam, did you see this:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/vintage-speed/a-spot-of-luxury-jay-lenos-1955-bristol-403

I had never heard of these cars before.

11:15 AM, May 03, 2013
Darrell said...

I'd never heard of Bristol either. Look 'em up on Wiki, then do a search for Bristol Fighter. They shoehorned an uptuned Dodge Viper engine in it.

5:56 PM, May 03, 2013
Mosyyrock said...

I was at a stop light next to one of these today. Sun was shining, and the top was down.....and the steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car.

9:32 PM, May 03, 2013

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