On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Morris Galloway > <[email protected]> wrote: >> That does it! >> Somebody slurred Jaguars! ... > > LOL! I thought Jaguar did a pretty good job of that all for themselves. ;-) > > (BTW, I always loved Jaguar automobiles and remember when I could buy > a good five year old E-Type for $1500 in good running condition. I had > two of them, a 1966 open top and a 1971 hard top, and they were a kick > to drive. The guy who owned the shop where I worked as a mechanic was > a Jaguar specialist and still is, 40 years later. He does not speak > kindly of the post-Ford Jaguars, nor for that matter of the current > Mercedes and other high end cars. To him, none of them are truly > serviceable any more, none are made to be rebuildable the way the > classic XK six cylinder engine was. His opinion is that nowadays Honda > and Toyota make much better, more reliable, more serviceable cars than > anyone else ...)
It is scary to think of someone holding up an E-type as a paragon of serviceability. Though the enameled exhaust manifolds are awful pretty. When it came to electrical problems, the worst was my Rx7 which ate 1-2 alternators a year. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
