Dream car.

[macfeegle]

Not pipe related but nearly lost my dad to cancer a couple of years ago. After operations and chemo he is in remission and on 6 month check ups. All his life his dream car has been a E-type jag, this weekend he's spent every minute ragging this to bits.

 

[phil67]

Then God bless him as not many people obtain their dream. Beautiful car, and that in and of itself will more likely than not give him some focus which is the best medicine in itself.

 

[swhipple]

A most excellent way to spend a weekend! Well done Sir!

 

[captainprophesy]

God bles him... I hope he enjoys the shit out of that car, it's very well deserved.

 

[mranglophile]

Good on him!

 

[agnosticpipe]

Good thoughts for your dad! Love Jags too, but the best I could ever do with British cars, was an MGA, and 2 MGBs.

 

[mso489]

Yeah, the XK-E was one of my boyhood dream cars. It's a looker, and a performer too. You have to get the hang of that long hood design in terms of cornering, but the car will do the job, I hear. Good for your pappy. Long may he happily shift in his jag.

 

[seacaptain]

Cool! Mine would probably be a 1969 Camaro SS/RS

 

[mranglophile]

Jag MK II FTW...me and Inspector Morse.

 

[blueeyedogre]

My dad had a 1969 Olds 442. I'd love to have one just like it.

 

[ssjones]

An XKE would be in my top 10 as well. I belong to a local British Car Club, there were four beauties at our club picnic on Saturday evening.
Only slightly less pricey, for me, would be a genuine Lotus 7. A club buddy owns one, so I get rides frequently. I laugh hysterically on every one.

 

[johnnyreb]

Among my Top Ten dream cars would be Cadzilla owned by Billy Gibbons. Resembling the lines of a 1948 Cadillac but all hand built it was among the last of the cars built by Boyd Coddington before his untimely death. You can see the Cadillac influence, old & new. Just beautiful!

 

[huntertrw]

macfeegle:
May your Dad and his Jaguar comfortably grow older together throughout the years to come.
My aspirations for a dream "car" are not quite so lofty, but just as ardent. Here it is:

 

[papipeguy]

That's great. I think the XKE is the most beautiful care ever created. I hope he and the car have many miles left.

 

[tslex]

E-type is one of the most beautiful automobiles ever made.
I always think of it as somehow in the same aesthetic family as the Supermarine Sptifire -- the most beautiful warbird ever built.

 

[number6]

Obviously, the Lotus 7 would be a blast for me as well ...

 

[instymp]

Bless you & Dad.

I remember one time in the 70s I wa driving some kind of muscle car on I-95 in S. Fla. & an XKE came along side of me & we went at it, blew my socks off!

Grew a little respect.

Too bad they had that Lucas stuff.

 

[bigpond]

My dad had that car! Mom secretly had a limiter put on it so he wouldn't kill himself. He never knew but complained endlessly that it was slow and lazy. He got so tired of it he gave it to me when I turned 16 thinking that it was mellow enough for a kid to drive without concern. Except mom told me what she had done years earlier so I had it stripped off first thing. Dad was super pissed when I came home that first weekend with a speeding ticket showing I was going 140. Truth be told, I was going down hill and the tires were actually smoking!
Congrats to your dad, hope it lives up to the dream!

 

[macfeegle]

Thanks all for the comments, he's loved hearing of them. Seriously thinking now after the cancer and giving him a high performance motor at a age when his reflexes are shot that sooner or later the only way he will go is if I end up shooting the old bugger, mind you if I keep the 7.62 dry I've got it should still be good in another 30 years