Porsche is good at that.
Their Boxter concept looked really cool and then production happened... On Dec 14, 2020, at 19:56, Luke Graves <buyer1 [at] airmail.net> wrote:
That's it Lash! What a beautiful design. As in
many cases, the Production version doesn't look as good as the
Prototype!
Luke, my Dad also attended Frankfurt '83 and
called me from there. He mentioned the Gruppe B and I immediately saw it in a
magazine at the library that same week.
It was a very cool looking shape! I like it a
lot better than the production 959 bodywork.
On Thursday, December 10, 2020, 9:54:53 AM EST, Luke Graves
<buyer1 [at] airmail.net> wrote:
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!
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
Agree,
9600HP and 77RW were both hard-working demonstrators and are still in the
possession of Jaguar (or Jaguar-Daimler Heritage Trust??).
gp
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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