One of the new car magazines has a picture of the new Jaguar sports coupe.
This is the continuation of the "E-type" theme.  Does anyone know anything
about this car?  It looks pretty good.  

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Hold on! Is this the new 8 cylinder engine Jag? What a great 
concept!

Jaguars are generally awesome.  However, I have heard that Ford baught out
Jaguars...so see what you may.    Though, this item was entered a year ago.
I have only reciently ridden in one of the four door luxury models with
two gastanks and burl wood interior.  Kind of amazing.
I wonder if "E-type" is a shortening of "XKE" that was king in the '60.
(If you can get a ride in a Jaguar XKE, from say 64-68, you are god/ess.
they out-run the comparitive corvette, and can go from 0-80 before you notice.
Paraniod drivers are noted to speed in these things because you can't tell
by feel how fast you are going....80 feels like 40, etc.  Beware, they are
extremely adictive.  However, if thinking seriously about purchase, you
should have the electrical system replaced if the previous owner hasn't
already.  The brits are kind of in a dark cave when it comes to electrical
systems for cars...Get A-C Delco and stop worrying)

Actually, what I need (besides tinfoil (tm)) are parts for
a 1968 Mercury Cougar.

I can look.....

brenner trye "join classified" for a whole conference of people dedicated to
helping you find things to sell/buy.  

There are web sites on the internet which have classified ads for old car
parts.  I have explored a few of these and they look like you could get almost
any car part for a car as popular as the 68 Cougar.  Try a search engine and
see what you can find . . .

Good suggestions. But I want Cougar parts from ANn Arbor.
I think there must be an academic type who drove 
1000 miles per year and then switched to a recumbant bicycle.
In fact, i'm nearly certain. You?

Guys, I think we been had.....So what's your *real* excuse?  
Improbablilty drive unhappy?

Ann Arbor, like most of Michigan, salts its roads.  Automobiles > 15
years of age are almost invariably found to have spent some part of
their youth somewhere far south.  Michigan is also surrounded by water.
That means rain & other forms of atmospheric precipitation are not
infrequent, and hence, automobile parts left out of doors rapidly
degrade in quality.  Unless you are interested in constructing a rust
sculpture, Ann Arbor Cougar parts, regardless of accumulated annual
mileage, are unlikely to be of value.

For the same reason, Jaguars are rarely seen in Michigan except in the
summer.  They are strictly "fair weather" cars.

My advice is go to Virginia. Used cars are cheap and they don't use salt
there.

Avoid Chesapeake bay if you do that.

Re #10: I mean western Virginia in places like Roanoke or Lynchburg, not
by the ocean.

I think that the lack of jaguars in MI is testiment to the fact that
people who wish to own them pick up and move elsewhere where they know
they can keep the car long enough to make keeping the car a worthwhile
investment.  After all, jaguars=$$$$$$$.  <sniff>

I had always thought that jaguars were more of a south american thing.

Humm, there are no shortage ofthem around Ann Arbor.

I keep several in my storage area. My dad put some in my display case. Just
the other day, my girlfriend found one in her lunch. There's tons of jaguars
in this area. They even keep some in the Detroit Zoo.

FUZZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I understand, that not too long ago, some folks spotted a Panther in
Manchester!

fuzzy!  <look of astonishment>  Gosh guys!  The font lost her secret
identity!  I need that secret decoder ring!

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