Ferrari Mailing List: Re: *****SPAM***** Re: Ferrari Digest, Vol 173, Issue 19

[Luke Graves (buyer1]



Hi Lash!  With regard to the 959, I was stationed in Germany in the early '80s and being the car nut that I always have been, took my boys to the Frankfurt Auto Show in '83.  Now for those of you that haven't been there this is a BFD in Germany und Alles im der Welt.  One can spend a full day there and not see everything.  It is held at a complex called the Zentral Messe.  The highlight of the show was The Gruppe B Porsche.  It was really a beautiful design and of course my boys, ages 11 and 14 wanted me to get one!  It was above my pay grade I explained.  The 959 was derived from the Gruppe B with relatively minor changes.  Everybody please google Gruppe B Porsche to see a really beautiful design!

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From: Lashdeep Singh [mailto:lashdeep [at] yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 6:52 PM
To: Luke Graves
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] *****SPAM***** Re: Ferrari Digest, Vol 173, Issue 19

Luke, another great story!

Thanks for sharing as always!!!

On Dec 8, 2020, at 13:00, Luke Graves <buyer1 [at] airmail.net> wrote:



Had a '60 XK-150 and a '63 XKE.  Ordered the XK while in Iceland.  They didn't have any car dealerships there at the time, so, one went to a store and ordered one from a book.  Got it $400 cheaper than had I Ordered it from Coventry.  It was delivered to Momo's in NYC.  Three weeks before I was to fly back to the US, the Cuban Missile Crisis hit.  After 2 weeks of sitting alert in a T-33 (with orders to ram) I was ordered to proceed immediately to my new assignment at Hamilton AFB in the Bay area with no leave allowed.  As I was processing out I was wondering what the hell to do about my car an old NCO saved my ass by informing me that I still got 15 days travel time.  When I finally showed up at Momos it was Where in the Hell have you been?  I implied we were in a National Crisis, they said (being Ferrari Guys) here take this piece of s*** and get out of here no charge!  I drove straight though to Chicago and stayed with friends for a night and then straight through to Hamilton.  Everybody there had been on Nuke alert (32 aircraft on 15 min alert loaded with MB-1s)  So, here I came rolling in in my new Jag!  In unison my Squadron CC and Wing CC said Where in the Hell have you been??  I tried to explain myself to not much avail.  They said, well, then get your ass on alert.  After several yess sirs, the Ops Officer said that we have to give him one ride in the F-101B to get him current and to do so we will have to download the Nukes on one aircraft.  After that sunk in, things got a little tense.  My Wing CC had to go to the Division CC to go to CINC NORAD to get permission to take a bird off alert and down load the Nukes.  This all had to be explained to the CINC and of course the CINC asked Where in the world has he been!  Rarely does a new Captain get that kind of visibility.  So, I took off on a beautiful day in the Bay area and was about the only aircraft in the sky.  For the next few years, every time I came across some of these Senior Officers, they would look at me and say "oh yea, you are the one with the Jag!!!

 

I drove it for 3 years in beautiful Northern California and then sold it to a Grad Student at Stanford for 2k more than I paid for it.  So, that's my Jag story!

 

Luke

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From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+buyer1=airmail.net [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of George
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 8:18 AM
To: Col Luke Graves
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: *****SPAM***** Re: [Ferrari] Ferrari Digest, Vol 173, Issue 19

Agree, 9600HP and 77RW were both hard-working demonstrators and are still in the possession of Jaguar (or Jaguar-Daimler Heritage Trust??).

gp

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From: BRITT ROTHMAN <britt2asa [at] aol.com>

Those Jags were probably preproduction cars that were for show only. The majority of the first 4 months of E Type production went to the USA to raise hard cash for the British economy. At that time it was ?export or die? due to currency requirements after the war. British consumers didn?t have the opportunity to buy an e type for quite a long time.

As a note: the E type was shown at the Geneva Show in March  ?61 for the first time and then showed up in S Cali shortly afterwards.

Anyway I am certain those first cars would have been rushed out as prototypes, Jag would have built 30 to 40 cars to finalise the production process. They wouldn?t be sold but would be good enough for test drives and display.

BR in Stockholm.

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