Hello everybody, I am an interloper. :embarassed:I don’t have a GT40 but a Jaguar Series 1 E-type replica. (Sorry). I got onto this site by a friend in the States who said that the Car Factory was building a XJ13. As the editor for our club magazine (90 pages every other month) I had written about the XJ13 saying that along with the jaguar F type (which should have superseded the E type) this one of the great cars that never got into production.
Two of the best cars ever produced were the GT40 and the E type. Here in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
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<st1:State w:st="on">Florida</u1:State></st1:State> to Carlisle <u1lace u2:st="on"><u1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Pennsylvania</u1:State></u1lace></st1lace></st1:State> for your big kit car show and was surprised at the number of GT40 there, also surprised at the number of British cars that have been bought and renovated especially the MG brand. The biggest surprise was GT 40 up for sale with a VW engine in the back. The owner wasn’t around, obviously been taken round the back of the tents with a few of the good ol boys to be told the error of his ways but great deal of smiliong was going on with a lot of interest in it. No one bought it while I was there I think the interest was would it burn completely away before the owner came back. :lipsrsealed:
I shall be keeping an eye on this site to watch the progress of the XJ13 which will be a real winner when it hits the streets. There’s only one thing that concerns me, well two actually, the First is will it have a roof to keep out of the rain? (I drove back through Virginia and Georgia in real rain, and will the owners just drive it onto a low loader, off load it at the show, load it up and put it back in the garage. I hate to see cars with 69 miles on the clock and the owners so proud of their cars they won’t drive them in case they get dirty. Cars were built to be run and driven, if you want to just look at it buy a model and put it on the shelf.
Regards
from the Isle of Wight England
Alan Hart<o></o>
Two of the best cars ever produced were the GT40 and the E type. Here in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
lace w:st="on">UK</st1lace></st1:country-region> there are lots of GT40 and very few E types so that was my main reason for building the E replica. it’s a bit embarrassing really, but when they see my car they think its real, but even if you drive a genuine X million pound GT40, they will look and say it’s a replica, so you see where I am coming from don’t you. My car is slower than an asthmatic pensioner running across a ploughed field in muddy wellies compared to yours, but there again it didn’t cost as much to put the engine in and with a roof off batting along at 120mph, even with a 2.7 Injected I am afraid to bang the throttle right down in case I can't get the stains out the seat.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comlace u2:st="on"><u1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Pennsylvania</u1:State></u1lace></st1lace></st1:State> for your big kit car show and was surprised at the number of GT40 there, also surprised at the number of British cars that have been bought and renovated especially the MG brand. The biggest surprise was GT 40 up for sale with a VW engine in the back. The owner wasn’t around, obviously been taken round the back of the tents with a few of the good ol boys to be told the error of his ways but great deal of smiliong was going on with a lot of interest in it. No one bought it while I was there I think the interest was would it burn completely away before the owner came back. :lipsrsealed:I shall be keeping an eye on this site to watch the progress of the XJ13 which will be a real winner when it hits the streets. There’s only one thing that concerns me, well two actually, the First is will it have a roof to keep out of the rain? (I drove back through Virginia and Georgia in real rain, and will the owners just drive it onto a low loader, off load it at the show, load it up and put it back in the garage. I hate to see cars with 69 miles on the clock and the owners so proud of their cars they won’t drive them in case they get dirty. Cars were built to be run and driven, if you want to just look at it buy a model and put it on the shelf.
Regards
from the Isle of Wight England
Alan Hart<o
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