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I have always loved Bitish sports cars, especially Jaguars. I learned to drive in a 1960 Jag XK150 that belonged to a friend of the family (I was 12 years old!) Ever since then I longed to own o Jag of my own. One day, while driving down Hampton Bldv in Aurora, CO, I spotted a Jaguar XKE Coupe sitting at a service station with a FOR SALE sign in the rear window!. I called the number and learned the car belonged to a couple who were selling it because they were expecting a new baby and needed a more practical car. What luck! I had a 1963 Pontiac Catallina! I was only a Junior in High School at the time (1971), but was able to trade my Pontiac to the couple and talk my Dad into co-signing a loan for $2200 which was the agreed-to difference. I was in 7th Heaven! Here I was, a Junior in high school and while all my friends were tooling around in beat-up Chevy's and Mustangs, I was driving a 1967 Jaguar E-Type Coupe. The car was Valentine Beige (a non-standard color that had been special ordered and factory painted by the original owner). I have never seen another that color. It was beautiful!<br> Anyway, I sold that beautiful car 28 years ago when I joined the US Air Force and I regretted that decision all my life. (I eventually did get another E Type, but that first one was something special). For years I wondered whatever happened to that car when one day about a year ago, I saw a posting on a message list about someone with a Beige 67 E-Type. I managed to email the guy and eventually spoke to him on the phone and learned to my amazement that he owned my old Jag! It is still in very very good original condition and he sent me a picture as it looks today! (I'll post it later) Not long ago, while visiting my sister-in-law in Denver, I looked up the current owner and he invited me over to see my old car. When I got there, not only did I get to see it, but he let me drive it around a bit! What a thrill to drive your old high school car 28 years after selling it!
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