The E-Type was a superb handling car. I drove a few at Lime Rock when I worked for Jag’s ad agency. It was the early ‘80d and the E-Types were out of production but Jaguar still liked to roll out a few for company events. They were excellent when prepped by Jag engineers and fitted with fresh dampers. The front dampers in these relatively heavy cars would give up in 10,000 miles if the car was driven aggressively. But in fine tune the car was excellent. It could scoot through the two tight turns at the end if the straight with minimal guidance. Fabulous machines, especially when equipped with the 4.2- liter XK six. The twelve cylinder of the ‘70s made it nose heavy and with version one of L-Jetrinic fuel injection, rather sluggish at the low end,
Paul > On Sep 29, 2021, at 6:42 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Sep 29, 2021, at 3:09 PM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Actually the XKE first went on sale in1961, so I'm guessing it's intro was >> preceded by at least 2 to 3 years for design and development. > > Yeah, the e type was a tamed down xkss from 1957, the Honda Odyssey dates > from 1994, but yeah, whether we’re talking 40, 50 or 60 years of development, > those were a critical few decades, if only for the roles that computers were > able to play starting in the 80’s not only in design but in engine and brake > management. > > It would almost seem as if we are 98% in agreement and vigorously debating a > superfluous 2% of the question. Fortunately, that doesn’t happen very often. > > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
