Sacrilege

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DEcosse

If it's no Scottish it's CRAP!
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Jaguar to make an electric version of 1960s sports car the E-Type

Ignore the video and read the article
Jaguar is actually marketing retrofitting Genuine ORIGINAL Classic E-types with electric motors
This in incredulous - why would ANYONE with enough money to be able to actually afford this, even consider taking an iconic classic and shoving an electric motor in there? Clearly if you have enough money to do this, you would have enough to repair whatever might need attention with the original engine/transmission.
I could see the point if they were offering a new-build copy but with electric running gear - but to cannibalize an original classic?
For Jaguar themselves to be promoting this is just unbelievable.
 
I used to have that car -- except 2+2 hard top - '68 was a Series 1-1/2 - still had the straight six, gone to two carbs instead of three.

Good memories -- not so sad to see it go, though.

Good gosh those wire wheels are the sexiest things ever created by man, with screw hubs, right hand thread on thread on the right side hubs and left hand thread on left side hubs.
 
My Uncle Maury in Eugene Oregon bought one the first year they were available in the US, which I believe was 1963. It was the coupe and had a V-12 engine. I was the only one who ever drove it besides my aunt and I brought it back after 5 miles with a dragging front brake when I was about 17. Geez but I couldn't believe it. Chocolate brown with the glass lens over the headlights, which had to be removed the next model year for some kind of idiotic safety reason.

And you got to own one Paul. I recall that my uncle sold it in about 1975 and I was very distressed because I wanted it so badly.

He was a great mechanic and I recall when he had the heads off and also rebuilt the rear end. What surprised us kids so much when he bought it was that he always drove a pickup truck or a Nash Rambler Ambassador auto. I can still remember the smell of the black leather seats and still see the burled wood dashboard, and of course the sound of that engine that revved up so smoothly and quickly.

He took me for a ride in it during our visit shortly after he got it. We were on Highway 99 and he told me to watch the speedometer as he took it up to 140 mph in just a few seconds, telling me, "Now don't tell your dad I about this."

What a great guy he was; logger, heavy equipment operator, fisherman, hunter, general outdoors man, and with a Jaguar XK-E model.

And now in electric. Aptly named thread. Gads but is nothing sacred?
 
Jaguar is now owned by Tata in India. It was bad enough when it was owned by Ford. . .

I had a 1968 MkII 3.8 O/D and then later on a 1988 XJ6. Both wonderful cars.
 
At least they will be reliable(maybe) Jag has not been British for a long time I suppose we just like holding on to the glory days.:D get ready gentleman the day is fast approaching when electric cars and electric motorbikes will be the majority.
 
Uh, @Navigator Mike, you might check Wikipedia.

I had three Jags, pretty much up on their history through '74.

The V-12 required so many changes to the car, they actually dropped the 'XK' moniker officially (though everyone still calls them that), as I had one of the first Series 3 E-Type V-12 imported - that was 1971.

The first E-Jags in the U.S. were 3.8 litre straight sixes.

In '68 this was increased to 4.2 litres.

Fantastic cars for a teen in the sixties, and I *know* what it is like is some small respect to be a pretty girl, because when I drove those cars, they turned heads.

Speaking of sacrilege, I wanted a manual transmission, so at the time, the engines had a terrible reputation - having dissimilar metals in the engine caused no end of problems - and Lucas electrics don't get me started - so there was a market for guys who would remove the V-12 and install a Chevy 350 V-8, but they had a terrible time finding the correct matching parts. So when I called a guy down in Texas who did that work, he sent me an engine/trans combo in return for the bell housing from my automatic transmission.

I did a hatchet job on the drive shaft tunnel to make the opening for gear shift lever, and that was in 1986. So the car ran -- maintenance was easy: 12 quarts of oil, 12 spark plugs, synch four carburettors -- until I sold it "just in time" in early 2008 before the crash.
 
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