“Once owned by a Bugatti race driver, this E-Type was worked over by a race mechanic at Bugatti’s shop in Molsheim, France, to extract more power—enough for an extra 7 mph of top end.”

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/06/19/164-jaguar-e-type-barn-find-has-bugatti-racing-pedigree/

Thanks to Gary for this item.

Parking any Jaguar presents more tractable issues than parking any of these big babies!

With thanks to Motoramic — Notice of rare sale of 200 WWII-era military vehicles offers tanks for the memories

Thanks to AUTOWEEK

Need to watch the whole thing as painful as the first video is. It is hysterical, love the guy changing a spinner wheel with a short sledge hammer. –D2

Thanks to club member Dr. Mel Perry for calling our attention to this amazing video.

” … 50 years after its debut at the Geneva and New York auto shows, we’ll start with the E-type’s most important contribution: It created innumerable car folk and instilled a new generation with passion for the art, science and exhilaration of the automobile.”

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20110517/CARNEWS/110519861

As AUTOWEEK puts it: Retracing Steve McQueen’s Los Angeles in his Jaguar XKSS, or The King of Cool meets the coolest car ever

Superbly enhanced (non-standard) but beautiful car!

For those old enough to remember Bobby Darin and his wife, Sandra Dee, or who are classic custom car fans, you’ll enjoy this. Here is a blast from the past from Don Henry via Jack Humphrey.

The 1960 DiDia 150 was a luxury, custom-designed iconic, handmade car also known as the “Dream Car” forever associated with its second owner, singer Bobby Darin. The car was designed by Andrew Di Dia, a clothing designer who Bobby Darin had met whilst on tour in Detroit in 1957. Darin told Di Dia at that time he would purchase the car if he ever “hit it big”.

Here are Bobby and Di posing with Bobby’s Dream Car.

For seven years, from 1953 to 1960 the DiDia 150 was hand-built by four workers. The body was hand-formed by Ron Clark and constructed by Bob Kaiser from Clark Kaiser Customs. Its metallic red paint was made with 30 coats of ground diamonds for sparkle.

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Don’t blink or you will miss it. The overhead view is of a work of art, as good as anything you’ll see at the MET. Check out the third short video for a stark comparison of car class performance.