[dba-Tech] Barrett-Jackson Auto Auctions

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 22 16:36:09 CST 2006


Hi Gustav

I also had a Jag, much longer ago, much older, much slower, much bigger. 
A Mark VII Saloon. Weighed a coupla tons. When the temp got down below 
-15C or so, it wouldn't even htink of moving. But man, it was more 
comfortable than any couch I've owned.

P.

Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi Arthur
>
> Don't speak of Jaguars. I had a Tudor white XJ 5.3C - the 12 cylinder coupé - for 13 years. Drove it every day and felt it like a privilege. The comfort of that car is second to none, a perfect match of a racing car and a limousine. My wife, Rita, loved it too. She drove it as often as I did. "The flying carpet" she called it and pressed the speeder causing only a quiet civilized humming.
>
> It was nearly like this, except that it was all white and mounted with the newer aluminum wheels:
>
>   http://www.classiccarclub.co.uk/carpages/jag_xj.asp 
>
> Still, no one can design cars like Jaguar. I often study BMWs and Mercedes but they just don't get it. Master engineering, yes, but no sense for style. As a journalist here wrote after a test drive for an extended period of the latest model "grand Jaguar": You could live in that car.
>
> Today my old car would cost a fortune in fuel consumption alone. My wife tells me to earn a lot of money; then I can buy any car I wish, she says. She knows what I would buy, and I would have no problem spending that kind of money for a real car. She would even appreciate it ...
> Did I tell that her favourite car is the Jaguar XK150 S cabriolet? It is so beautiful, and she was hooked the first time we looked at one at a Jaguar car meeting. It had been refurbished using the original special red colour and looked brand new - ready to tour the country:
>
>   http://www.bsmotoring.com/2002/02jun21_1.htm
>
> Oh well, such cars are getting expensive to the degree where you don't dare to drive them. It's a pity as Jaguars are built to drive.
> Tomorrow it's Monday. Better write some code and earn some money.
>
> /gustav
>
>   
>>>> artful at rogers.com 22-01-2006 19:29 >>>
>>>>         
> I seem seriously to have missed the point on what cars are valuable. An
> original mint condition Jaguar XKE sold for a mere half million while a
> Chrysler Hemicuda sold for 2 million! Unf**king believable. Here you have
> perhaps the greatest car ever designed (XKE) vs. another stupid lumbering
> behemoth and somehow the behemoth scores four times more than the XKE. How
> could this occur. Perhaps the old adage applies: if you want to know what
> God thinks of money, look to whom he gave it.
> Unbelievable, a HemiCuda worth four times the price of an XKE, both of which
> are in mint condition. This is a stupid world.
> Mind you, anyone who is there to pay a million or so for a car clearly has
> too much money, but that is an aside. But given a choice between 4 Jag XKEs
> and one HemiCuda, what would you choose? I like HemiCudas but let us be
> realistic about this. How could one possibly fault the design of an XKE and
> instead choose a HemiCuda? 
> I guess this is why I am not affluent. I keep choosing design over HOT. You
> get about 1.5 miles per gallon in a Hemi, which is obviously not why you
> might have purchased one. But still, why on earth would you buy such an
> angry dog? This is not a car! It is a display of somethingm, and I suspect
> what that something is, but will venture no further than to reiterate
> Fuller`s Fifth law: cubic inch displacement is inversely proportional to
> sexual ability.
>
> Arthur
>
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