Tag: Jaguar
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A Kougar, not a Cougar
There was a time when the concept of Jaguar E-Type “donor cars” existed. These days, almost any E is worth restoring, but that wasn’t always true, based on values. In the 70s, the Kougar Sport was a kit car that used E-Type running gear and other bits to make a nostalgiac ‘vintage’ racer. Interestingly, these…
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Hen’s tooth: XJS with manual trans
The XJS unjustly gets a bad rap. Anything following the E-Type was likely to be considered ugly. It is also much more a Grand Tourer vs. the Series I and II E-Types, which were trues sports cars. Finally, the V12 also got a justified bad reputation for complexity and poor reliability through the smog-controlled 70s.…