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Subject: [Leica] Red Jag E Type
From: jplaurel at gmail.com (Jim Gmail)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:00:20 -0700
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And now, Jag has given us the second most beautiful car ever made: the F 
Type.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 9, 2015, at 10:38, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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