Keeping track of every Jaguar E-Type, with your help.
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You’ll now notice in the upper right next to the car search box tabs for navigating between the various data sites. What’s nice about this approach is that you can now go directly from the E-Type resources to the Saloon resources (as an example). If you’re looking at a particular car or photo, the tabs just take you to the front page of the other site. It has the added benefit of making the left nav bar a bit shorter.

In theory, this site displays as follows.

• Exact rendering: IE7, Firefox (any version for Windows), and Safari.
  (Firefox for Mac should be in that group, too, but surprisingly it often has “issues”)
  Users of these browsers should see what I intended: The top, left and bottom nav bars are stationary while the page content scrolls behind them. (Except in this blog, where the bottom nav bar sometimes lives its own merry life at the bottom of the content instead of the bottom of the browser window.)
• Reasonable rendering: IE6
  IE6 users see the site with the top, side and bottom bars scrolling with the page content. The left nav does not continue below the depth of the initial screen.
• You-probably-cannot-read-this awful rendering: IE5.5 and below, any Netscape below version 6, any IE for Macintosh
  Sorry. Less than 1 in 200 users visit with any of these browsers, and they’re now well past their prime.
• Unknown: Opera, Konquerer and other small-market-share browsers. I suspect the latest version of Opera works, but the others, not so sure.

If you’re in the first two groups and you get unexpected results (like the bottom nav bar appearing in the middle of the page) please drop me a line with your browser and operating system. No guarantees, but I’d at least like for IE6 users to not have any issues, as that’s still the majority of you.

One sure-fire solution: use Firefox.

I just launched a new data site to cover classic post-war Jaguar saloons, from immediate post-war through the XJ6 of 1968, from the Mk. IV to the last of the sixties saloons.

Visit it now: Saloon Data

Please let me know if you find any bugs…I’ve already stamped out a few serial number bugs, and I need to better define the colors list. I’m also trying to determine if I need a mechanism to record duotone paint schemes, or whether that can simply be done in the comments.

I’ve got a couple of new designs available in the store, one featuring an XK-120 coupe and another just with the XK Data logo. I’m also trying these on black, but I suspect I’ll have to do a bit more work on the dark side–order a black shirt at your own risk until I’ve had a chance to buy one and see how they look!

671792

Jeff Schellinger’s XK 120, #671792, is certainly a handsome machine for having been found “derelict in a soybean field” and having been a former dirt track racer! (I’m going to feature a few of the cars I used in the calendar in the next couple of weeks, this is the first one, though a couple of the cars have already been featured.)

If only I could get Steve Martin to advertise them. In any case, there are a passel of calendars, both XK and E-Type, available in the store. Check them out!

In preparing the site for IE7, I broke this blog in IE6. It should be mostly better now, or at least close to what it was!

Reader Tad sent me a link to some great YouTube videos, here’s the first one. Enjoy!

I’ve added classified ads to the site. For the time being, it will simply be cars for sale. We’ll see if anyone takes advantage of the feature. To place an ad, the car must be in the database.

This is pretty cool: an E-Type model you can build out of paper. Mind you, I think this is one which would really benefit from steady hands and a LOT of patience, but if you ever run out of things to do on your 1:1 model…