Saturday, December 21, 2024

"A Jaguar E-Type called the ‘Shaguar’ is up for auction"

Don't know what current Jag management thinks of this. Don't care.

From BBC Top Gear, December 18:

It’s from a film apparently titled ‘Austin Powers’, and… yeah, us neither

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A 1967 Jaguar E-Type, upon which Henry Ford’s famous line ‘you can have it in any colour as long as it’s black’ is based – no, wait, not that – is up for auction.

The special bit here is that this ’67 Jag starred in a series of films about a fictional British spy bearing a Scottish accent and a licence to kill. No, hang on, not that either.

Dubbed the ‘Shaguar’, this modified E-Type was of course driven by the film’s star Mike Myers – posing as fictional agent 007, we think? – across all three of these Austin Powers films....

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