The inter-nationally renowned 10-day Car Week started last Friday. Every kind of car, from clapped out VWs to double-digit-million-dollar Ferraris will be on display for general drooling, wish-I-owned-one, shouldn't've-sold-the-one-I-owned, and auction bidding, and by next Monday many streets will be wearing dual streaks of burned rubber laid down by immature show-offs who have scads of money but no respect for the locals and the town they're racing through.
While on a side-job, yesterday, I talked to a guy who was polishing his beautifully and expensively restored '52 MG TD. He seemed to be MG knowledgeable, so asked if he knew why there wasn't a TE model, being there were the TA, TB, TC, TD and TF models. He replied that it may have been because Jaguar had their E-Type. WRONG!!! So much for him being as smart as he thought was. The TF debuted in '53, fully 8-years before the E-Type. So, the absence of a TE model remains one of life's mysteries . . . at least to me.