Pretty sure it's an XK150. Predecessor to the E type and one of the most beautiful cars ever made. I've lusted after these (and XK140s and XK120s) since I was seventeen. (Jaguar, for the curious and curiously uninformed.)
No front shot, unfortunately.
Yesterday I passed a Cobra on a trailer. Carrol Shelby had signed the glove box.
Also yesterday, was passed by what looked like a chopped '61 Plymouth Fury, also on a trailer, festooned with racing stickers.
Last outings, perhaps, before being put away against the rain.
It's nice to imagine I could retire so well. But we know that ain't happening.
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This very car, or one very much like it, is for sale on Craigslist for $17,000. That's more than I thought it would be worth, but I guess it's a good price if it's in very good condition.
http://monterey.craigslist.org/ctd/1989510009.html
I thought you meant the Jag ($17k'd be cheap) but wow. Time capsule is right.
I wondered where this comment went! I must have had two little comment windows open at the same time and wrote in the wrong one. You figured it out, instead of thinking I was crazy. I appreciate that. You can see I'm no good at multitasking.
This car would be more like -- what? -- five times as much?
Yeah, or more. This frame off restoration is appraised at $145K
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/ctd/1988085574.html
By the fender swoop mine looks like an XK140, not a 150. My mistake. I like the 140 better. 120s are even more handsome but they were an earlier model with their own problems.
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