> But Joe, don't you know that there is no such thing as an XKE? It should be
> called an E-Type! All the Jag-you-are owners here (which seem to be coming
> out of thewoodwork) insisted so just a few months ago! You should know better
> than that. (Weren't you the guy ran a Jags-only repair shop?)
>
No, I didn't run the shop, I just worked there. And it wasn't Jags-only, we
would have a wayward MG or two in occasionally, and I even had to work on a
Triumph once.
As far as using the term XKE, I think it must have come from the factory some-
how. Look at it this way, no-one calls C and D Types XKC's and XKD's. And
no one calls XK120's, 140's and 150's 120-Types, 140-Types and 150-Types. The
S-type saloon was never called the XKS. So why would the public embrace the
"incorrect" term XKE for the E-Type? It must have come from somewhere, and
I suspect the source was at least pseudo-official for it to have had the
penetration that it does.
Joe
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