My neighbor when we lived up near Boston comes over one day and tells me
to come see something. This was like '91 or '92. In his garage he has
a 1956 XK140MC fixed-head coupe, black with red interior. The MC
("modified") engine was the LeMans engine. It had been sitting at
another house since 1961/62 or so and he decided he was going to sell it
and had it dragged to the house next door. He wanted $10k which was a
decent price for the car (and might have made me a better special price
because we got on well), other than not having been driven for 30 years
it was in good shape, the (wide white wall) tires on chrome
wires/knockoffs held air, all the bits including custom-fitted leather
luggage for the back "boot" was there in nice condition. Engine was
clean and turned over. Only thing missing was one door panel that the
trash guy had thrown out when he came to get the barrel (service in the
early 60s!)as he had it sitting next to the trash can in the garage
while fixing the window lift.
He had bought it from a dentist who had bought it new for his wife who
was scared of it so he sold it a year or two later to my neighbor, who
drove it for a coupla years until he had kids and parked it never to be
driven again. It was actually a beautiful car, I had never seen a coupe
before but it had nice lines and a fair amount of room inside and I
could actually fit though it was a bit tight for 6'4" me.
I seriously thought about it but my wife was starting medical school
about then so the money was a concern. He ended up selling it for more
to some older guy who was going to fix it up for his girlfriend, I just
about cried when the guy came with a flatbed to get it.
Anyway, we talked about the car, he told me he got stopped in NH at some
point, late one night, the cop said he was going north of 120 because
that was all he could measure. Neighbor figured he might get 130 or 140
(per the XK140 designation) out of it. I looked at those skinny little
tires and shuddered...
Here's one for $175k....
http://www.rosnermotorsports.com/1956-jaguar-xk-140-mc-fhc.htm
--R
On 11/7/15 4:27 PM, M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes wrote:
Reminds me of the story my dad told me of a certain Frenchman who took a
Gullwing onto the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
Long story short, nothing the PSP had on the road had even the remotest
chance of catching the thing, so they radioed ahead for a semi to park
across the road as a roadblock.
Trooper: "Buddy, just how fast do you think you can GO on the Pennsylvania
Turnpike?"
Frenchie: "Move the truck, M'sieu, and I weel SHOW you!"
;D
-MMM-
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:43 AM, archer75--- via Mercedes <
[email protected]> wrote:
From another list:
Joe wrote:
This must be a European thing, taking cell phone photos of a speedometer
showing an ungodly speed. A couple of weeks ago I met a German guy who had
one of his Audi A8 V-12 speedometer doing 240 kph (150 mph), but that was
on the autobahn, where that's all right. I think the national speed limit
in the UK is about 75 mph, same as Nevada, though Utah and Idaho have some
80 mph roads.
Jail For Driver Who Filmed Himself At 192 mph
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jail-for-driver-who-filmed-himself-at-192-mph/ar-BBmTafG?li=BBgzzfc&ocid=mailsignout
Dan could beat that if he bought a 600 or AMG and jazzed it up.
Gerry
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