The Austin Power '67Jag is coming to auction

This is the “Shaguar” that was used in all three of the Austin Powers films, memorably driven by Mike Myers and featuring in several key scenes throughout the trilogy.

Though it's a 67... I think it goes without saying that they would have cracked a lot more jokes about it if it were a '69

https://silodrome.com/austin-powers-shaguar-for-sale/

Jaguar’s second E-type prototype was E2A, and someone tried to make a recreation of it, but gave up, and it sat in a San Diego garage for 37 years

above, the original. Below.. not. But with some money, it could look like it

the seller wants 90k

https://www.hemmings.com/listing/1962-jaguar-e-type-862673

https://supercarnostalgia.com/blog/jaguar-e2a

Detroit Autorama

The toughest part of the build? “The windshield,” McCarl says, not missing a beat. “That’s number 13.” The glass just kept breaking when cut by traditional methods; water jetting, a new-school method, did the trick. “I refer to that as my $3000 windshield.”

Chrysler 300

I covered the story on this hot rod in https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/02/right-place-right-time-car-gets-to-be.html

AMC Concord wagon! 

Mike Clarahan's '67 Jaguar widebody

https://www.theautopian.com/heres-what-i-saw-at-detroits-legendary-autorama-hotrod-show/

https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/detroit-autorama-is-not-just-for-motown-muscle-its-for-mclaren-mg-and-miata-too/

https://www.detroitnews.com/picture-gallery/media/photo/2024/03/01/gallery-2024-autorama-batmobiles-ridlers-hot-rods-and-evel-kneivel/72796602007/

https://www.hagerty.com/media/events/9-of-our-favorite-customs-at-detroit-autorama-2024/

FDR jr in the Jag, at the grand premier showing of the E Type at Jack Sheppard's imports of Tampa

Curtis LeMay coordinated the Berlin Airlift. He served as commander of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) from 1948 to 1957, and was Chief of Staff of the Air Force

In 1953, Jack decided to start a new venture and opened Import Motors on the second floor of his 10-lane bowling alley, that had previously housed a garage and gas station before Jack bought the building in 1936, and sold Jaguar, Porsche, Lotus, Austin Healey, MG, VW, Sunbeam, Hillman, Triumph, Saab, and Rolls Royce

A year later, he moved the dealership downstairs and began adding just about every European car make he could get his hands on. The building  so it was already set up, in a way, to handle cars.

Jack Sheppard's son Joe was called The Tampa Hotshoe, after returning from a tour of duty in Korea at age 30, he raced against Fangio, Hill, Moss, Cunningham - in Nassau, and even in Cuba. He passed away in October 2019 at the age of 91 with a '67 MGB/GT in the garage. 

His bio at https://www.loveforporsche.com/joe-tampa-hotshoe-sheppard  his racing career at https://lotuseleven.org/Race%20Success/tampa_hotshoe.htm
 

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2010/04/19/lost-import-dealership-import-motors-tampa-florida

https://forums.autosport.com/topic/99310-joe-sheppard-the-tampa-hot-shoe/

https://type550.com/the-tampa-hot-shoe

https://www.mgexp.com/forum/mgb-and-gt-forum.1/joe-sheppard-rip.4027047.4027507

interesting hood scoop for a Jag

very cool safety car

Gary Kuchar's collection is coming to the Van Der Brink auction, and he had a hell of a wide variety of cars in his collection

that Mustang above the windshield? NOPE. This collection was picked over before the left overs were listed for auction. Most of them don't run, and you will see a Bobcat moving them for photos. But then, at these prices, you're paying for the rust free bodies, not running cars.

DeSoto Airflow

no info on the engine

has a 400 cu in. So, wtf is that doing in there? But it's a Phoenix, and those are cool 

401 AMX Javelin

see the Bobcat? And this seems to be the only Mustang getting sold

Damn. I wish I could afford to buy this Bantam. I'd be so damn happy. 

but someone that has always wanted an E Type Jag is going home thrilled! 

there's a bunch of other cars, and trucks, and Scouts, etc etc 

https://vanderbrinkauction.proxibid.com/VanDerBrink-Auctions-LLC/Approx-73-Classic-Cars-at-Auction/event-catalog/229644

Dutch Barn Find: the first left hand drive 2+2 E-Type ever made

https://silodrome.com/barn-find-jaguar-e-type-2-plus-2/

Dutch Jaguar enthousiast and mechanic Derk Geurts bought the car in 1989. At that time he was just 24 years old. The car was imported from the US in May 1989. 

At that time they had no clue about the significance of this car, nor could they tell anything about the history. The car carries a key tag (starting key nr. 947) from Tim Gallagher Ass. 700 State Hwy 436 Altemonte Springs (North of Orlando ) in Florida and on an old picture a shipping paper is visible from Brunswick Georgia to Antwerpen. 

As there was no US-Title with the car, Derk went to the Dutch RDW first and showed them a copy of the import document. This was sufficient and Derk bought the car. In the 1980's Titles were often taken in by the customs when you visited them with the imported car and paid the Import tax, VAT and Dutch BVB taxes at their desk.

The car was in need for full restoration although some work was already done in America. Derk disassembled the car and welded in new floors and inner sills. The body was on a rolling frame. He preserved the car with etch primer. The bonnet is in partsm the engine is still assembled. The IRS is mostly assembled.

The car was stored at the farmhouse of his aunt in Valburg in the Netherlands.

While working on the car in his leisure time, Derk had the interior parts stored in the attic of his aunts house. The car was in a separate barn next to the house. Unfortunately a fire destroyed the house in 2000.

 Luckily the car survived in the barn, but the interior, including the windows and some tires, were lost. Such a disaster is a part of the history of a classic car sometimes.

 Derk solved this by buying another 1966 E-Type 2+2 parts car for the necessary interior parts.

When he moved to Luxembourg, Derk had no time to work on the car during the occasions when he was visiting his parents and realized he would not have the time to finish this car due to a high workload.

And that is how it came to be in a barn in Oirschot.

http://xkedata.com/cars/detail/?car=1e75001

Cobra racing a Jag at Goodwood

There were some interesting and cool cars on The Rockford files

Get a good look, they are about to crash it

I told you so you wouldn't be surprised, because when they crashed this E Type, it surprised me

 and I wasn't expecting to see a GTO, though this has cool looking white accents on the hood scoops, they ruined it by carrying the stripes over the roof, and some white stripes down the sides. 

I could spend hours in this farm's abandoned car area just taking patina photos

See what I mean? Anyway, these are all screen grabs from a video, which is in this post at the end

the narrator and his friends are so annoying I recommend that you turn the sound all the way off. Trust me. You don't want to hear him for the 100th time say how he knows nothing about cars, or "look at  this" for the thousandth time.  Put some music on you like, instead