The guy I worked for when I was in tech school had 7-8 Jags at any given time, although no more than one or two were ever working simultaneously.
He had: 2- Mark IVs 1-XK140 1-XKE 2-XJ6s 1-XJ12 The XK140 barely ran, but when it did.....the XKE was a badass car as well, even though it had the 3.8 liter six, and not the 4.2 or V12. I got to drive the cars home if I wanted, as most of my hours were spent keeping them running. The XJ12 was the most amazing one, as you would be driving down a local road thinking you were doing 35 and would look down at the speedo and realize it was more like 60. The sense of speed was almost nonexistent in that car. Too bad it was a carbureted model. Six side draft Solexs' that had to be balanced about every 500-750 miles or the gas mileage went from maybe 10 mpg well into the single digits. Dan Sent from my iPad > On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Donald Snook via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I am not usually a Leadfoot, but that Jag was so fast and so fun to drive, > that I did tend to drive it a little faster than normal. The car was just > ready to leap (pun intended). The first time I drove it, the previous owner > showed me how to take off from a stop without squealing the tires. It really > took a concerted effort to take off slowly. But, it was scary fast when I > floored at it any speed over 5 mph. I have heard people say a car will throw > you back in your seat and I always thought that was an exaggeration. But, > this car really would. And with all that torque, you really had to fight the > wheel because the torque twisted the car. > > Don _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
