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Just as a curiousity, here are the longest contiguous car number sequences of XK and E-Types on the site.

Right-Hand Drive E-Types:

RHD Series 1 OTS: 850007 - 850038: 32 cars
RHD Series 1 FHC: 860001 - 860013: 13 cars
RHD Series 1 2+2: 1E50182 - 1E50184: 3 cars
RHD Series 1.5 OTS: 1E1887 - 1E1889: 3 cars
RHD Series 1.5 FHC: 1E21706 - 1E21709: 4 cars
RHD Series 1.5 2+2: 1E50994 - 1E50995: 2 cars
RHD Series 2 OTS: 1R1008 - 1R1010: 3 cars
RHD Series 2 FHC: 1R20912 - 1R20914: 3 cars
RHD Series 2 2+2: 1R35031 - 1R35032: 2 cars
RHD Series 3 OTS: 1S2565 - 1S2568: 4 cars
RHD Series 3 2+2: 1S51708 - 1S51711: 4 cars

Right-Hand Drive XKs:

RHD XK120 OTS: 660040 - 660045: 6 cars
RHD XK120 FHC: 669091 - 669095: 5 cars
RHD XK120 DHC: 667237 - 667244: 8 cars
RHD XK140 OTS: 800052 - 800055: 4 cars
RHD XK140 FHC: 804501 - 804504: 4 cars
RHD XK140 DHC: 807008 - 807010: 3 cars
RHD XK150 OTS: 820053 - 820056: 4 cars
RHD XK150 FHC: 824103 - 824107: 5 cars
RHD XK150 DHC: 827094 - 827097: 4 cars

Left-Hand Drive E-Types:

LHD Series 1 OTS: 875001 - 875032: 32 cars
LHD Series 1 FHC: 885001 - 885010: 10 cars
LHD Series 1 2+2: 1E77232 - 1E77235: 4 cars
LHD Series 1.5 OTS: 1E17817 - 1E17820: 4 cars
LHD Series 1.5 FHC: 1E34708 - 1E34710: 3 cars
LHD Series 1.5 2+2: 1E77946 - 1E77948: 3 cars
LHD Series 2 OTS: 1R14206 - 1R14209: 4 cars
LHD Series 2 FHC: 1R26730 - 1R26733: 4 cars
LHD Series 2 2+2: 1R43438 - 1R43443: 6 cars
LHD Series 3 OTS: 1S20049 - 1S20053: 5 cars
LHD Series 3 2+2: 1S70506 - 1S70509– 4 cars

Left-Hand Drive XKs:

LHD XK120 OTS: 670025 - 670029: 5 cars
LHD XK120 FHC: 679010 - 679012: 3 cars
LHD XK120 DHC: 677133 - 677136: 4 cars
LHD XK140 OTS: 810678 - 810680: 3 cars
LHD XK140 FHC: 814307 - 814308: 2 cars
LHD XK140 DHC: 817575 - 817578: 4 cars
LHD XK150 OTS: 831248 - 831251: 4 cars
LHD XK150 FHC: 836625 - 836628: 4 cars
LHD XK150 DHC: 837874 - 837876: 3 cars

Once again we present one of our occasional month-long snapshots of traffic to the various data sites; this is reflecting changes from the previous 31 day’s totals.

Beware of the “totals” row, as the unique visitor count is probably artificially inflated as folks tend to go from site-to-site via the menu at upper right (which, by the way, is an excellent way of seeing the total cars and photos on the various sites, it’s always up-to-date).

I’d like to thank everyone for helping us push through the 20,000 cars (across all of the sites) mark, and we now have almost 105,000 photos online. Remarkable!

It was noted that while you could record the factory hood (convertible top) color, you couldn’t record the current hood color. That has been changed, so if you’re of a mind to, you can note the car’s current hood color. I lack a definitive list of what the factory colors were, so it’s a simple text-entry box.

I’ve been very busy, as usual, but I wanted to take a second to remind folks that comments left specifically about a person or business that are negative without substantiation will be deleted. This isn’t because I don’t sympathize with the person leaving the comment–we’ve all have a story or two about dealings with bad people and businesses in our old car world–but because there is no way to for an independent reader to confirm the accusation, especially if the comment is left anonymously.

The sad fact of life is that the lowest people are also the first ones to threaten with lawsuits or other tedium. The best way for you to relay the message about them would be to create your own website (a free blog, for example), and lay out the facts dispassionately and with full documentation. This can work surprisingly well.

On another note, I am desperately behind in my correspondence, so if you’ve written in the past few weeks, I will get to your email!

I was a bit tired of the eBay display in the “market” pages here, which used a standard eBay widget. No longer!

I’m now parsing RSS feeds for the “on eBay” stuff, which gives a better and slightly more flexible result. A child of this effort it the “next up” listing in the left sidebar which displays the next car on the block.

If you do any shopping on eBay, I encourage you to click a link to there from this site–the bit of cash they kick back if you win an auction almost covers the hosting costs on a monthly basis, which is great. Thanks for clicking, if you do!

If I remember and can muster the energy, I’ll post a here-is-the-past-30-days Google Analytics report on the blog every once in awhile. I have no idea how this compares to other similar enthusiast sites. We’re not all that extensively linked and I currently exclude search bots from the car pages, which eliminates tens of thousands of pages from search indexes.

Beware of the “totals” row, as the unique visitor count is probably artificially inflated as folks tend to go from site-to-site via the menu at upper right (which, by the way, is an excellent way of seeing the total cars and photos on the various sites, it’s always up-to-date).

I threw out the percentage increase for the Coventry Racers site when calculating that totals column, as it’s an anomaly, having just launched within this last month. The XJ6 site is similarly fresh, though from the activity on it I expect it awaits a fate similar to the relatively moribund XJS site.

As you may have seen, the 2009 Calendars are now available. I encourage you to check them out and buy one if you enjoy the site. I guess with the economy in the crapper it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that sales are far slower than last year…but hopefully things will pick up.

One reason the slow sales is bothersome is that most sales then come from people whose cars are featured, which feels fairly sleazy to me–like I’m one of those guys who takes a snap of people at a tourist attraction and then tries to sell it to them. “Hey, your car is in the calendar…oh, by the way, would you like to buy one?”

“Slow” is not a euphemism; last year I sold about 150 calendars total, so to slow from that…would make them much like the “donation” button. One person per year has clicked that–seven donations in seven years. That said, I really do appreciate those who have donated, you have my undying gratitude. (I hope jag-lovers does better than this!)

According to a friend in the know, the only real way to raise funds from something other than advertising is to either

1. Have a beg-a-thon every once in awhile, or
2. Or charge something in exchange for “premiums”

The calendars are about as close to a beg-a-thon as I’m comfortable getting at the moment, and I have no idea what would constitute premium content on these sites. Mostly naked women lounging on vintage Jaguars–for a price? Throwing lots of ad screens for dubious products between every page and photo which you could remove by paying a fee? The former sounds good, but I don’t really have a stock of mostly-naked women, or working vintage Jaguars, for that matter. The latter sounds…less than ideal.

Check out our newest site, still in its infancy, but also pretty cool: Coventry Racers, a site dedicated to the C-Type, D-Type, XKSS and Lightweight E-Type factory race cars from Jaguar.

I can now add video to the site if you can tie it to a specific chassis and it’s embeddable from one of the major video sites. Just drop me an email at the contact link below with a link to the video and what car number it is.

When you search for cars now, you can change between the age-old table format and a screen of slides showing a photo of the cars in your search results, if they have one.

I’m in the process of readying a site about C-Type, D-Type, and E-Type factory race cars. As part of that, I have removed the Lightweight E-Types from the regular Series 1 group and placed them in their own, which can be found by searching for either their car number or by going to the search form and selecting “E-Type Lightweight” under the “series” label.

In the cases where someone has noted a car’s original English registration number in the “Factory Notes” field, you can search on this using the search form, now. No guarantees, as not everyone has filled those in, but it’s our current system.

Finally, if you comment on the car sites frequently, feel free to drop me an email, and I’ll share a page I wrote which will help make that slightly less painful.