Had a good day today,
I spotted a mint looking Jaguar XK120 ahead of me , and waved him down so I could look at his car, he stopped and we oohed and ahhhed at each others cars, and it turns out he restores these cars and will give me a guided tour of his workshop if I follow him home.
The car was a customers car, and he had just been to lunch in it with his wife.
He wanted to know what engine I had under the bonnet, and I would not tell him, so he said "we'll see" and set off as fast as he could go, well, I gave chase and kept up with him, and he couldn't shake me off.
It was nice to know that my car was as fast as a genuine Jaguar XK120 with a 3.4 liter engine in it!
A point not lost on him I might add!
He had a vast barn-type building with dozens of old Jaguars, XK 120's 140's and 150's, Bentleys. E Types, and all sorts of lovely cars.
His mechanic remarked about the nice engine note my car had, and the owner said "that's nothing, you want to hear it when he opens it up"!
At that point I told him it was only a Triumph 1500, and drove off
with as much wheel-spin and gusto as I could manage.
I made a point of trying to remember to take a camera out with me in future.
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