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At 08:29 AM 7/18/01 -0700, Jon Page wrote:
>
>               Greg.
>          160 M.P.H. ?   on 2.8 ltrs. Are you sure or just trying to
>impress the ladies?  My Jag XKE 4.2 ltr will only do 135M.P.H. [but of
>course it's an automatic.]

Ayup. I haven't done it myself, but AUDI club folks have out on the salt
flats (and I suspect on the Autobahn). Cars really have gotten to be 
outrageously
better since 1969 (best year for an E-Type IMHO). Yes, that tranny is
holding
you back, as it's a piece-of-junk Detroit-made performance killer. Your
XKE 
would
be a lot faster without it.

Sad thing is today's econo-box can often out run and out handle the
performance
sedans of a quarter-century ago.

Nonetheless, I too am a devotee of the E-type, having babysat a ragtop for

a year
at age 18 (and then had to keep it running in the ensuing months). Sweet 
machine,
and as Manly said 'the best crumpet-collector known to man.'

Of course, Manly didn't have an Ercoupe :-)

Greg


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