HI Folks
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05-25-2012, 07:50 AM
HI Folks
Hi folks, just wanted to post a note to introduce myself. I own a XK8 and my wife owns an X-Type. I had my first ride in a Jag in 1965. A friend borrowed his mothers XKE (fairly new, don’t know the year) and we tooled around town half the night. Now this was in a small town in the Ozarks and most folks had never seen a Jag, much less driven one on the unbelievably crooked roads in that area. We had a blast!
So, Jaguars became my dream cars, but I did not own one until 2007 when I bought my wife’s X-Type. Her little Saturn had started to need more and more repair and she was tired of it so I bought her a car. She was out of town at the time and when she found out that I had bought her a car on the phone, she was not pleased. She said to “take it back” and the only car that she would accept sight unseen was a Jaguar with a Leaper!
Well luckily, I had bought the X-Type and she fell in love with it. She will not even let me upgrade it to a XJ! It is a tough car and out corners my XK!
I bought my XK when I retired the first time. Took three months to find the model/year/color/ mileage, etc. but has certainly been worth it.
We are both retired now and trying to adjust to retirement. Although tooling around the central Texas hill country in our Jaguars is helping!
So, Jaguars became my dream cars, but I did not own one until 2007 when I bought my wife’s X-Type. Her little Saturn had started to need more and more repair and she was tired of it so I bought her a car. She was out of town at the time and when she found out that I had bought her a car on the phone, she was not pleased. She said to “take it back” and the only car that she would accept sight unseen was a Jaguar with a Leaper!
Well luckily, I had bought the X-Type and she fell in love with it. She will not even let me upgrade it to a XJ! It is a tough car and out corners my XK!
I bought my XK when I retired the first time. Took three months to find the model/year/color/ mileage, etc. but has certainly been worth it.
We are both retired now and trying to adjust to retirement. Although tooling around the central Texas hill country in our Jaguars is helping!
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05-26-2012, 09:10 AM
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