Hi all! I'm hoping I'll run into a couple of folks with some experience here...
I grew up some decades ago per the calendar. Some folks will say I never grew up and perhaps this post proves that! For my first mid-life crisis about 10 years ago I quit my perfectly good job to go back to school, bought a Harley, got some ink, etc. No worries, life was great. I eventually went back into the mainstream, but I still have the equipment and such, and a bunch of great memories.
So now I'm thinking about pullin' that trigger again, this time perhaps for my boyhood dream car - a shiny red Jaguar XK-E. IIRC, I was attracted to the 1966 vintage OTS (Open Two-Seater) type. I had a model of this car and it had a removable hard top if memory serves. Being a '66 it would have been a Series 1 and with the 4.2L DOHC 6-cyl. engine. I was in San Diego in a classic cars store in the Gas Lamp district a couple of years back and they had a car very much like this for about $40K - I shoulda pulled the trigger then!
What do you know about such a car? If kept in decent shape, how reliable are they? Do they have the notoriously bad "Lucas electricals" that plagued many Brit brands of that vintage? Are parts reasonably available?
Still just a dream at this point...but one that's recurring with alarming frequency these days, and there's only one cure for that...!
TIA and BRgds...
I grew up some decades ago per the calendar. Some folks will say I never grew up and perhaps this post proves that! For my first mid-life crisis about 10 years ago I quit my perfectly good job to go back to school, bought a Harley, got some ink, etc. No worries, life was great. I eventually went back into the mainstream, but I still have the equipment and such, and a bunch of great memories.
So now I'm thinking about pullin' that trigger again, this time perhaps for my boyhood dream car - a shiny red Jaguar XK-E. IIRC, I was attracted to the 1966 vintage OTS (Open Two-Seater) type. I had a model of this car and it had a removable hard top if memory serves. Being a '66 it would have been a Series 1 and with the 4.2L DOHC 6-cyl. engine. I was in San Diego in a classic cars store in the Gas Lamp district a couple of years back and they had a car very much like this for about $40K - I shoulda pulled the trigger then!
What do you know about such a car? If kept in decent shape, how reliable are they? Do they have the notoriously bad "Lucas electricals" that plagued many Brit brands of that vintage? Are parts reasonably available?
Still just a dream at this point...but one that's recurring with alarming frequency these days, and there's only one cure for that...!
TIA and BRgds...