Oh, The Horror!

"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve) 10/31/2016 at 10:38 • Filed to: jaaaaaag, auction

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I get occasional updates from an auction house where I registered as a bidder a while back. I was looking for a cheap beater from a municipal auction.

Little did I know that wasn’t going to happen. Here in Charlotte, at least the last time I went, beater 2001 Cavaliers were going for dealer retail prices ($3400 with 100k miles). At auction. Seriously.

Anyway, they sent me !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Which contains these:

That gray ‘86 has a bonus:

And finally:

All the Brit Kitties are said to run, but each has some small problem in the description. If I could get one of the XJS convertibles for under $1500 I would tell my wife she’s getting a JAAAAAAG. But I know that won’t happen so I won’t bother.

TysMagic > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 10/31/2016 at 10:43

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oh no no no, what a terrible temptation. Dang I want them all

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 10/31/2016 at 10:44

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I’d love that E-Type. I prefer it in grey to any other color.

Steve in Manhattan > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 10/31/2016 at 10:48

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Imagine a mechanic who specializes in British cars running across that list. There’s at least what? 25 or 30 boat payments worth of repairs in there?

McMike > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/31/2016 at 10:52

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Looks like a ‘67-68.   I can’t see the ad from here, but I’m guessing it’s an automatic. 

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > McMike 10/31/2016 at 10:54

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Surprisingly enough, the ad says that it’s a 1968 4 speed manual with just under 79k miles. Extremely tempting if I do say so myself.

yitznewton > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 10/31/2016 at 10:55

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Jaguars, Household Furnishings, Shop Equipment(#89786)

Beuhh?

yitznewton > McMike 10/31/2016 at 10:56

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Nope!

Lot 1 of 55: 68 Jag E type, VIN 1E78479, 7E54687-9 Enigne, KJ5248 gear box, 4E54711 body #, made in England, 78687 mi., 6 cyl, 265 hp, 283 lb. torque, 151 mph - 7.0 sec., 17 mpg ,4 sp. manual,front suspension independent by torsion bar & wishbone anti roll bar, rear suspension indenpendent by twin coil springs & wishbone w/radius arms, anti roll bar (runs, has fuel leak)

Autofixation > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 10/31/2016 at 10:57

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Cavaliers are the southern redneck what I drive when I’m not driving my bro dozer car of choice, right?

McMike > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 10/31/2016 at 11:14

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The only offered the automatic in the long wheelbase 2+2, so it’s a good chance it had one.

I can’t see the price or any of the other details, but the reason it’s tempting is that it’s a 2+2.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > Autofixation 10/31/2016 at 11:21

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They populate trailer parks now like beat-up 80something G-bodies did in the 90s.

McMike > yitznewton 10/31/2016 at 11:55

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That’s performance data from a series I coupe :)

StoneCold > yitznewton 10/31/2016 at 12:08

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They’re selling potential hood ornaments!

http://bid.rogersauctiongroup.com/m/lot-details/index/catalog/13940/lot/1839579/

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 10/31/2016 at 12:30

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Red one’s a late series Convertible. Jump on that, they aren’t common in red.

CaptDale - is secretly British > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 10/31/2016 at 14:06

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Give me the E-Type and no one gets hurt!

shop-teacher > Steve in Manhattan 10/31/2016 at 15:27

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The international measure of a mechanics estimate: boat payments :)

Steve in Manhattan > shop-teacher 10/31/2016 at 15:41

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If Tom & Ray taught us anything, they taught us that.

yitznewton > McMike 10/31/2016 at 15:52

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Heh, gullible I guess :) but the photo does show a manual, unless the Jags had very manual-looking autos

McMike > yitznewton 10/31/2016 at 16:29

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It is a manual. The power was down by the time the series 1.5 came along, and with the added weight of the 2+2, it would have never hit those numbers anyways.

And I don’t think there was ever a factory E-Type that would do 150.   Coventry proved ONE of them would do 150, but that was a lot of back room sneaky work on one of their first cars to make it happen.  

shop-teacher > Steve in Manhattan 10/31/2016 at 21:22

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Yep. I miss that show.

Steve in Manhattan > shop-teacher 11/01/2016 at 10:33

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Oddly enough, the reruns contain calls I haven’t heard (or forgot that I did ...).

shop-teacher > Steve in Manhattan 11/01/2016 at 11:08

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Fortunately there were so many, it’s impossible to have heard and remember them all.

Steve in Manhattan > shop-teacher 11/01/2016 at 11:29

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Not sure if you know, but I actually wrote bits for the show (and was paid in t-shirts - it is NPR). I told Doug Berman that he should program some of the early calls, when they weren’t nationwide, just on WBUR.

Also, Doug had Ray call me, and we talked for about half an hour. He is exactly as he is off the radio as he is on it ... love that guy.

shop-teacher > Steve in Manhattan 11/01/2016 at 11:47

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WOW! I did not know that. Very cool!

That makes you the most famous person I know ;)

Steve in Manhattan > shop-teacher 11/01/2016 at 15:54

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Tenafly, matzoh bri, ham on rye ... stop on by! My Bugsy bit ... and some others. Hearing my words come out of Ray’s mouth ... just the best thing ever.

shop-teacher > Steve in Manhattan 11/01/2016 at 16:09

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Sounds pretty great :)