PhotoPhred Loc: Cheyney, Pa

They were classy looking. Thanks for sharing these photos.

Tinker

I have a '99 XJR. Perhaps the best car I have ever owned, with no problems at all until a fuel pump a few months ago. Marriage of Ford and Jag was good one, in my opinion, for both companies. // Beautiful pictures of the concourse. Having competed in those several times (and won) I can attest to the amount of time and effort needed to get your baby just right. We normally devote about three weeks (off and on, mostly on) to getting ours cleaned up properly, using Q-tips and spray bottles on the entire engine. A labor of love, to be sure.

FredCM Loc: Central Illinois

My 67 E type had good smoke tubes. They never required venting and recharging. If anyone wants to read about a typical Lucas experience, former Road & Track columnist Larry Egan restored an old Lotus and drove it from his home around Monroe, WI to New Orleans, IIRC. The return trip was when the excitement began. I imagine one can find this column in R&T archives or somewhere, if they really want to read a well written piece that has a Lucas experience in it.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Yes! Among all the other Lucas jokes (why do the British drink warm beer...?), is “why do British car owners wear driving gloves?” Answer: So they can pull the burning wiring harness out from under the dash without burning their hands (the result of having 2 fuses for the entire automobile - one for each headlight). Been there, done that, glad for the gloves. And I’ll bet others thought they were just an affectation.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

The XJR is a very cool car (and fast). I just helped a good friend sell his XJ 8 (to another Jag owner). Looking through the service records was horrifying -16K$ spent in about 45K miles (!)

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

Excellent.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Beautiful photos of an incredible vehicle. My uncle used to have one and when I was 16 with a NYS learners permit to drive he let me drive his from above NYC to just South of Buffalo. To this day he is one of my favorite uncles.

Dennis

FL Streetrodder

Great shots of a classic British sports car. I particularly liked that you took multiple photos from different perspectives that captured details as well as the whole vehicle.

gessman Loc: Colorado

Nice car, beautiful shots. I hope you don't mind me joining in. I spent three years in the UK back in the late 1950s during which time I bought an old Jag, a forerunner of the sports model that led to the XK series. It was a 1939 SS drophead coupe (convertible) with a post-war 3.8 liter engine. I bought it at an auction for 150 pounds, ($2.84 to the pound exchange rate). It had been stored for 12 years after it's previous owner, a racecar driver, was killed in a wreck. He had beefed up the engine considerably and the car had only 12,5?? miles on it when I got it. It was made pre-WWII but with the design of the post-WWII design of 1948. It was a screamer. Confident, perhaps overly, I rode the train to the auction knowing I was bringing that car home. I totaled it in a head-on with a bus on a backcountry road three weeks later and subsequently learned that it was only one of 90 made before the Jag plant shut down to make war vehicles. When I bought it there were only five left. I was pretty sick when I learned of its value and even sicker years later when Dave Garroway's (the first host of ABC's Today Show) sold at auction for around $250,000. Dave's cream colored one is still running around Hollywood - I recently saw it in an early Uma Thurman movie. Mine was the premier model left. I had pictures but they got misplaced "in the shuffle." In 1987 I was in a book store in Tampa to get a Haynes manual for the original Mini I bought after I wrecked the Jag and brought home. While looking through the car section, there was a British sports car magazine and one of the remaining four '39s was featured so I bought the magazine and below is a copy of the one from that book. The top on the one in the magazine was light canvas color and mine was maroon so I colored the top from the magazine and otherwise the car in the book was identical to mine. I've been kickin' my butt over that car almost my entire adult life - biggest stupid mistake I've ever made.

Xinloi6870

Lucas. Let Us Cause A Short.

FrankR Loc: NYC

Wait, did you just use the words great and Lucas electrical together? 😜

Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida

SOOO Pretty....Wow wish I had one. Love old Cars so much.

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

Wonderful! Man, they don't build them like that anymore!

Hereford Loc: Palm Coast, FL

Far more gorgeous than today's Jaguars.

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York