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To: "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com>,
Subject: RE: [Re: [Re: Poetry and Proper Name....]]
From: ya632@victoria.tc.ca (Paul Nelson)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:15:44 -0800 (PST)
At  3:16 PM 3/15/00 -0800, Dodd, Kelvin wrote:
>        I had the onerous job of replacing every reference to "XKE" by
>"E-Type" in our new Jaguar catalog.
>
>        The firm words of Mr. Harry Haigh (Retail Sales Manager and ex
>Jaguar Sales Manager) still resound in my ears.  "There is NO such car as an
>XKE!"
>
>        For a short little guy, he can have quite a presence!  Drives a very
>nice 3.8 Mk II as well.

        He's also full of it.  The cars for sale at the Jag dealer in
Seattle in 1961 were XKEs, NOT E-types.
Paul Nelson



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