I'm Colonel Terry M. "Skip" Curtis, United States Marine Corps Retired. I've been driving British cars for over 40 years. My first was a '70 MGB, Later, I acquired a '68 XKE Roadster (Ascot Fawn with a black top). Sold them when I was transferred to Italy and, later, Germany. Bought an '80 MGB as the line ended, and drove it 28 years. My 2004, 38274, XK8 Convertible was acquired after a lessee banged up the front end in New York and dumped the car to a cheap repair job and auction. I brought the car to sunny Southern California and had the front end removed, corrected, resprayed, and chromed the 19" Apollo wheels. See http://calchrome.com/wheels_jaguar.php for my XK8.

I was a pilot and am, therefore, very maintenance and preventive maintenance oriented. I like a correct car; and this one is as correct as Hoehn Carlsbad Jaguar Service and I can make it.

It's great to have found this forum. I have benefited from what I have read and look forward to a long and happy association.

 

WElcome, enjoy your stay and your ride
It will be nice to have aviation persons like you

 

Welcome to the forum Skip, so now you can fly a Jaguar on the ground as it were.

Good to have you with us, you will find that this is one of the friendliest forums around.

 

Welcome Skip,

28 years in an MG, could that be a record?

 

welcome to the site skip, good to have you here.
Scarfacesix.....was that your call sign?

Hope yopu enjoy the site skip, some truly great peeps here.....

I've manually upgraded you to full forum access so you can check out all the features the site has to offer and post a pic or two

 

Probably not; but I knew that car like the back of my hand!

 

I was Commanding Officer (1983 to 1985) of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 367, aka "Scarface", and the CO is called the "Six"