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E type Jaguar

legaladdick
legaladdick Posts: 1,808
edited June 2011 in General Charlton
This featured on tonight's Top Gear although the stupid twats did their usual (yawn) funny about it not starting (it is 50 years old for Xrist's sake!!)  Still amazed at how beautiful it looks today.  Can anyone think of anything as iconic (and preferably British) which is still around and gets heads turning (apart from Joanna Lumley???)

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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,470
    The new one failed to start also.

    They did say it is the best last British made THING!
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    My Dad owns an Jag XK120 - a drophead

    Only 29 left and its a beautiful car

    It's the one James May drove to in the race to Edinburgh against the train and Hammond on the bike
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,641
    A Spitfire
  • Winters-Dawn
    Winters-Dawn Posts: 303
    It's such a nice car! I also think that Mustangs are amazing!!
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    The Triumph Bonneville motorcycle. Still a lot of the old ones (like mine) about as well as the new 'retro' models which, from a ditance, look pretty much like the original but have such gizmos as electroc starting and various electonic goodies. A classic design lives on. And the new ones don't leak oil: one Triumph tradition that has died!
  • Darty Valiant
    Darty Valiant Posts: 620
    RT Bus
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,184
    it is and so is a corvette stingray
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,942
    A Spitfire
    Great call - nothing better, ever.
  • addick2000
    addick2000 Posts: 346
    What about the Jenson Interceptor.    I think that was British??
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,413
    edited June 2011
    bentley r type continental
    image
    Maybe not as Iconic, but this and old Rollers as wedding cars etc are still everywhere, imagine the kind of car you would have to turn up to a wedding in if you lived in somewhere like South Korea, an L reg Hyundai maybe?

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  • THFC6061
    THFC6061 Posts: 495
    I had a 1962 Jaguar E-Type roadster back in the day, but I never really liked it as much as I thought I would.

    I upgraded to an Aston Martin DB5 and we spent many happy years together.

    For me, the "James Bond" Aston is the ultimate British sports car.


  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,128
    If you don't mind me asking, how much did you get the DB5 for and did it come with machine guns?
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256

    The Mk.1 Ford Escort, in all its variations

    The London Transport 'Feltham' tram: poetry on rails!

  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    A Spitfire
    Great call - nothing better, ever.
    Thirded
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,386

    Loads of things "british" are great designs. We dont big ourselves up enough and at the same time knock our achievments.

    As far as I'm concerned, we created the modern world.

  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,982
    Austin Healey Sprite ......the old 'Frogeye'

    My old next door neighbour had one for years. Great,  bombing along in the summer with the wind in your face!
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,572
    edited June 2011
    My travel company (McKinlay Kidd) owns and hires an E-type Jag for touring in Scotland - it is a beautiful car.  V popular - in fact sold out this summer.  Have a few others available to hire as well, including Austin Healey and more modern Aston Martin DB9.  I won't include the website in case I'm accused of shameless plugging ;-)
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Routemaster buses...
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,982
    Not British - but Citreon 2CV
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,890
    Biggest mistake I made was selling my 61 e-type 6 years ago. Miss it now. I do have a 66 3000 Mk III Austin Healey though so it's not too shabby. :)

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,142
    edited June 2011
    For design classics you'd have to go a long way to bet the electric lightbulb, invented by Geordie chemist Joseph Swan and demonstrated some three months before Edison's first demonstration.  Swan isn't remembered though, because he didn't patent his idea, whereas Edison took them out across the World.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Other British design classics - the anglepoise lamp. At least I think it's a British design.
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,095
    Saw an e type being towed into san speed Bexleyheath this afternoon...... a silver blue soft top, chrome wire wheels the lot
    Simply stunning, the fact that it was not running really did not bother me. Could be a in art gallery
    Sun was out and the car just glistened, like something out of a movie, just stopped and thought where did it go wrong ken........

  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,890
    A Spitfire
    Great call - nothing better, ever.
    Thirded
    I preferred the TR6. No comparison imo
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,982
    The 70s Ford Capri
  • THFC6061
    THFC6061 Posts: 495
    If you don't mind me asking, how much did you get the DB5 for and did it come with machine guns?
    I sold her in 1985 after seven wonderful years and a bottomless pit of money to keep her in Concours condition, as well as enjoying the odd track day at Silverstone and Brands Hatch.

    I was happy with what I got for her, as she went to a fellow enthusiast who I knew would give her the care and attention she deserved.

    Shortly afterwards, the prices went through the roof!

    No, it didn't have machine guns fitted but I did have a dummy ejector seat button fitted to the gearstick, which used to scare the bejeezus out of any unwary passenger.


  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,797
    E-type works more as a convertable for me.

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