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As Paul was kind enough to point out in the thread about the other restorers and dealers who support this site, Ivan at The Car Nut is always kind about letting us post his cars and photos. If you’re in the market for a Maserati GT or an E-Type, it would be worth stopping by his site for a gander.

I put the forums back online…not to compete with anyone else, but because there are some popular calls for a place to post messages to other site users. Also, please use the “data discussion” for feature requests, etc., etc.

I pruned a LOT of the old forums, but kept any thread that seemed to have useful info in it.

(Note: Already have spam in the not-popular-at-all forums. Expect to see them go back down permanently if they become magnets. I wrote the software, such as it is, but don’t really want to spend any time trying to prevent spam. Don’t forget, jag-lovers has great forums.)

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Many thanks to the folks at Concours Sportscar Restorations in NSW, Australia, for uploading details and photos of XKs that they have/are restoring. This include the following cars: XK150 LHD OTS 830141, XK140 LHD 3.4 DHC S817715, XK140 RHD 3.4 FHC 804171, XK120 RHD 3.4 OTS 661123, and XK150 RHD FHC 824645.

Also to be thanked is David Barnett of Classic AutoSports, Scotland, for all of the cars he has entered information about over the years. The list is extensive: E-Types 1E20319, 1E34730, 1S2389, 850023, 850029, 860858, 861569, 861590, and 886493; and XKs 660042, 660859, 670178, 670948, 672773, 680503, 804106, 804437, 807198, 813140, 817054, 834213 and 834783.

If you know of any other proprietors or vendors who contribute to this community like this (or are one yourself!) please let me know, I would be pleased to get the word out.

I’ve been doing some minor tweaking of the site to improve responsiveness, but I’ve noted some general sluggishness on all of the sites I have hosted on pair.com. I’m not sure what’s going on there, but hopefully it will fix itself over time.

Very minor, but I updated the flyer to reflect the latest numbers and minor design changes.

2006-12-30

John DeLay is busy uploading a bunch of photos (over 120 so far) showing the restoration of his E-Type OTS, #1E12025. The restoration is superb and I believe large collections of photos showing the restoration process are valuable to others, so kudos to John. And his car is one of my favorite color combinations, dark green with a suede green interior.

Happy new year to all of this site’s visitors! Last year, about 120,000 unique visitors* visited 2.5 million pages on this site. I hope these numbers increase for 2007–the more people that visit, the more car data entered, and the more we know about classic Jaguars. These sites really do become more valuable to users the more data that is present.

Let me know how your experience here can be improved, and I’ll add the idea to the suggestion box.

Some special thanks: This site really should be called “pauldata.” Paul Spurlock is tireless in his quest to add cars to the site, and I’d be willing to conjecture that at least half of the cars currently recorded have been input by his intrepid (and undoubtedly calloused) fingers. Many thanks also to Steven DuChene, Dana Brown, Dave Kerr, Larry Harris, Herve, and Chuck Goolsbee for their continued efforts on behalf of the site. Thanks to Philip Porter, Urs Schmid and Malcolm McKay for their support, as well as my many friends on the Jag-Lovers forums, even if I’m not the favorite son of the XK group!

I hope everyone has a prosperous 2007…who knows, maybe I’ll even get my E-Type back on the road.**

* It should be noted that some of these “unique” visitors were the same person visiting the site at intervals far enough apart that the server software thinks they’re “new” (generally about a month between visits).

** Hah!