Martin Miller started Miller's Price Guides with his ex-wife, Judith. He told me a hysterical story of placing the prices under each photo by hand. I still have this Collector Car Guide. Don Draper called the XKE, "pornographic." I was always fond of the 2+2 fixed head coupe in English biscuit white. Better looking and far more endowed than the convertible. The automatic 2+2 is a steal and the transmission is easily converted to a five speed standard.
The XK 150 ragtop in midnight blue....drool territory.
ReplyDeleteThe way the "trunk" opens on the E-Type is rather cool its own bad self.
ReplyDeleteCare must be taken, however, with what year one purchases said Jag. Lessons learned the hard way, etc.
That all said, I'm more of an Alfa sort. (Italian cars and English apparel strikes me as better than the other way around.)
Interesting about Miller, but what IS the hysterical story about placing the prices below the photos by hand?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, years ago I came across a Road and Track magazine one-word description of the Jaguar XKE: "priapic."
-DB
Racing green with the camel interior,!!
ReplyDeleteThe only man I knew who looked fantastic wearing a driving cap while driving was Henry Manney, who called the XKE "the greatest crumpet-catcher known to man".
ReplyDeleteThere actually should be a price guide to pornography. "For this price, we can put you into Jenna Jameson..."
ReplyDeleteE-Type, not "XKE", please
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