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Old 12-08-20, 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by big john
I loved the XKE when I was a kid but probably better to just look and not touch one.
My grandpa-in-law has an E-type in his garage, with a cover halfway over it and a thick layer of dust over the rest.

It's his pride and joy and he loves telling the story of how he flew out to California, shopped around, found it, and then drove it back to Madison WI.

I wonder what will happen to it when he passes. He cares too much about it to just let it go but has no blood descendants, and I'm not sure anyone in the extended family would really be interested - at least interested enough to care about it as much as he would prefer.
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