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Subject: RE: [Re: [Re: Poetry and Proper Name....]]
From: Chris Kotting <ckotting@iwaynet.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:21:35 -0500
Paul -

Show me a car that actually has a badge on it that says "XKE" and I'll
believe you.  

Don't confuse what American marketing dweebs called the car with what
those who manufactured the car called it.

Chris Kotting
ckotting@iwaynet.net

> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:15:44 -0800 (PST)
> From: ya632@victoria.tc.ca (Paul Nelson)
> Subject: RE: [Re: [Re: Poetry and Proper Name....]]
> 
> 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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