Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/09

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Subject: [Leica] Red Jag E Type
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 12:38:11 -0500
References: <mailman.5074.1425892917.1819.lug@leica-users.org> <8C6FED45-B5FE-4F1B-8A93-0922DEF331C3@netvigator.com> <53B8B387-607B-414F-8AD8-EA9693FF60A7@gmail.com>

The XK-E type coupe is the most beautiful, followed by the convertible.
Sad they spoiled the lines with the license number on this one.

I will NEVER forget the first one I saw in person.  I remember the moment.
It was parked next to a Silver 300 SL gull wing at Gateway Gardens Housing
Area of Rhein Main AFB.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Jim Gmail <jplaurel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, the E-Type. I agree with Enzo Ferrari...the most beautiful car ever
> made.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 9, 2015, at 03:26, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Luggers,
> > While walking from the tram stop to the White Stag Pub on Sunday for the
> Trivia Contest I came across this beautifully restored 1962 E Type Series
> One
> > Jaguar. I talked to the owner who is the Vice Chairman of the Classic
> Car Club of Hong Kong and he is in the process of restoring a second E Type
> - shipping the car to England to have the work done. He told me there are
> three other E type Jags of similar colour if not the same year still on the
> road in Hong Kong.
> >
> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/RedJag1.jpg.html>
> >
> > A second view:
> >
> > <://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/RedJag2.jpg.html>
> >
> > And the view from the rear:
> >
> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/RedJag3.jpg.html>
> >
> > Walking around the car made me quite nostalgic. I owned a 1972 E Type V
> 12 when I lived in LA. It was not really suited to hot LA weather and slow
> traffic and I finally sold it in Vancouver to a Chinese Architect. I still
> see it sometimes on the streets near where I live when I am in Vancouver.
> >
> > Please look large - C&C always welcome.
> >
> > Howard
> >
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA


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