[Topeeka]

Here are a few of the Jags I have collected that are made of crystal, plastic and glass. There is even one that is made from coal slurry..! AND..it was made, just as the originals were, in England..!

[Vudoo4u2]

that is a crazy collection of jaguars you have

can I ask what got you interested in them? Seems its really a passion for ya

[Topeeka]

In about 1965, I bought a 1963 3.8 silver blue XKE coupe..(sigh..!!)...and drove it for about 4-5 years. During that time some friends gave me for Christmas a Corgi 1:43 scale model die cast that was nearly an exact replica of the car I was driving...a neat gift..!

Time passed...to about 1995, I had long ago sold my Jag, but bought another die cast Jag....then...another...and another...and...well, you know the rest..!! Today I have about 70 of them...scales from 1:87 (HO), maybe 30 in 1:43, another dozen in 1:24, probably that many in 1:18 and a few in 1:16 and 1:8..! And..NONE of them require service...plus there are NO oil leaks under them in the display cases...a big relief! I also owned 2 Austin Healeys before the XKE..the Big Healeys...and have about 50 of those as well..and a few other of the European / English cars from the 60's.

And they say you can't have a second childhood......!!!!

This photo shows about a third of my collection....I am working on 'dioramas' for these cars...So... the top shelf in the photo is the "Mid-Life Motors", a used car lot for Jags, Healeys, etc. The center photo shows the
"1:18 Garage", with a group of cars awaiting service...and some expensive, hard to find parts!! The lower one will be a "LeMans Start"...depicting the glory days of that track...and that famous running start.

I thought this would be a good way to display my collection without just having them lined up row after row in cases...kind of gives a 'story line' to the whole group.