Garage mate for your Pantera?

And the fun parts...

What is replacing it?

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Originally posted by TomCat:
What is replacing it?

The sound of me writing a check to pay off the beach place.

This will be followed by the exhale of owing nothing to any man.

Yet owing a debt of gratitude to many.

Adams, you sure know how to make a car look awesome. I wish I could both afford it and had the space for it. That is one beautiful E-Type. Good luck with the sale and I hope that all is well.

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Originally posted by Mark Charlton:
Adams, you sure know how to make a car look awesome. I wish I could both afford it and had the space for it. That is one beautiful E-Type. Good luck with the sale and I hope that all is well.

Mark, I'm sure you can afford what you 'choose' to afford. A good spot to be.

But if it makes you feel better, you can pay for it now and I'll store until your Canadian self can get down here to retrieve it! I'll provide at least one (up to two) beers, and cooking out/lie telling until you can eat no more. A southern tradition.

Thank you for your compliments too! The best photos were from a real photographer; the excessive words from me.

Wow, gorgeous car Adams!

I'd love to have an E-type one day. On my bucket list.

GLWS

Dennis

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Originally posted by sjdennis:
Wow, gorgeous car Adams!

I'd love to have an E-type one day. On my bucket list.

GLWS

Dennis

Thanks Dennis. These are good cars for bucket lists. They come with a ton of racing heritage, from a day where manufacturers could showcase not just what they'd learned from going 150mph for hours, but that you kinda felt like you were 'involved' in that process when you drove it.

Today's cars - don't get me started - just insulate and weenie us with false confidence, masked by the opiates of protection and manufactured noises.

But not Panteras with their unsociable 'rawness' (I may've made that up!) with REAL GT40 heritage and NASCAR goodness wrapped in that sexy body. E types do it. 911's do it (up til about 1998), the 05-06 Ford GTs do it for a modern car, yet calling on tradition to translate.

You blip the throttle on a good Series 1 E type, flip a few toggle switches for fun, rip through the gears and feel that power assisted NOTHING, and just go for it. Suddenly, you've got numbers on the doors and faceless cleavages are tossing you room keys.

Okay, gotta reel myself back in here.

The E types do things in a car guys mind and soul that really should be experienced.

Plus, they make you weak to look at them. Yes, more in common with Panteras than some realize.

Nice description, Adams...

Faceless cleavages have not tossed keys at me yet, but I'm still hoping!!



Rocky


PS> I agree with you 100%

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You blip the throttle on a good Series 1 E type, flip a few toggle switches for fun, rip through the gears and feel that power assisted NOTHING, and just go for it. Suddenly, you've got numbers on the doors and faceless cleavages are tossing you room keys.

Actually the brakes do have a vacuum assist on them. I sold my Series 1 Coupe 21 years ago for a down payment on my house. I wouls LOVE to own another one. too rich for my blood at this point however. Love it in Opalescent Silver Blue.

I think my Panter have a fight whit the Jaquar obout the place in the catcave.

My Panter dont like Jaquars at all.

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The E types do things in a car guys mind and soul that really should be experienced.
Plus, they make you weak to look at them. Yes, more in common with Panteras than some realize.

A Hudson

Definitely. And they have the same overheating 'problem' an unsorted Pantera does, so that part would be familiar.

Once I get my pantera sorted an E-Type is very much on my to get next list...

Thinking though I'll have to do it the long way for now and find a suitable project car.

This one is however stunning. And it would be an incredible addition to anyones stables.

Sorry I am only able to quote one post at a time here, but thanks for the comments. And yes the Jag and Pantera - never thought about them both being cats! - could have their disagreements.

And their likenesses as Bosswrench points out:

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Originally posted by Bosswrench:

Definitely. And they have the same overheating 'problem' an unsorted Pantera does, so that part would be familiar.

And shockingly enough for the trivia buffs, they share at least one part -

Their Lucas washer bottles and pump. As expected, I replaced mine twice on the E type as the new ones are actually less reliable than the old ones.

The ol' Jag has gotten a bit of interest out there in car land. My wife and I are looking forward to the auction and the risk of 'no reserve' is of course adding to the adventure.

That is a beautiful car!

In the perfect color too...

Sotheby's write up and photos below. Hope to meet a PI member there!

http://www.rmsothebys.com/az17...tre-roadster/1691619

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You blip the throttle on a good Series 1 E type, flip a few toggle switches for fun, rip through the gears and feel that power assisted NOTHING, and just go for it. Suddenly, you've got numbers on the doors and faceless cleavages are tossing you room keys.

Very well said! Poetry...

These days I know its hard to believe but I once took a flat floor 1961 E type Jaguar drop head manual transmission to the scrap yard.

I bought it for about £400 in yesteryear, and ran it for a couple of years, before I found out that ALL jaguar E Types were "Lightweights", in that the amount of corrosion made them so much lighter than when they were new.

Happy days but as always "if only I had known"

The last E type I owned for 10 years was a V12 drop head again manual and I had a tow bar fitted, we pulled a caravan around when the kids fitted in the back for years, I flogged it when I couldn't force them into the rear kiddy seats!