Frank Sinatra Renowned as one of the most influential musical artists of the 20th century, Frank Sinatra is not just one of the best selling music artists of all time, but also the owner of a Series 1 E-Type! Said to be a true gentleman of style, from his iconic trilby hats to orange pocket-handkerchiefs, it’s unsurprising that he fell for the stylish and iconic bodywork of the E-Type.

He’s said to have taken one look at the Jaguar upon its 1961 reveal and said: “I want that car, and I want it now”. Well, when the ‘chairman of the board’ wants a Jaguar E-Type, who could deny him!

Who Loves yhu Baby ?

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Ramblings, 1st Edition

I DO IT FOR THE FUN OF IT! August 2007 Ok, you've all heard about my girl Jazz, the repainted white, '69 E-type, 2+2, I purchased on e-bay about a year and a half ago. I had suffered some health problems, woke up on the table alive, and decided then and there, that I was going to do some of the things I used to do to enjoy myself as a young man. Back in my mid twenties, even before I met my wife Cindy of 33+ years, I joined JCTI, in 1972, after getting out of the USN. Not a founding member...but an early member. One of my early successes with the club was the recruitment of Jerry Neil as a member... at the corner of 36th Street and Harvard, it was a Texaco back then. I have enclosed a picture of me and my '62 Coupe' in about 1972... or was it '73, in front of the duplex where my Son Travis, lives now.

Anyway, so much for digression... or is it... my original encounter with Jaguar was about 1964... my best friend, Clyde Glen Hawkins, a current member of the Mountain States Jaguar Club out of Salt Lake City, owned a XK-120, FHC, while we were still in high school. About four years later, I convinced Tink Wilkerson, the local Jag dealer...downtown Tulsa, to sponsor a rally that I designed as a fund raiser for my Frat house at TU, the KA's... about the time that some of the BA, the Redfork, and the MLK were being introduced to Tulsa. OK, OK, OK, back to the beginning with Jazz. I purchased her on e-bay... March... maybe April 2005, but she was missing some stuff... mainly the spare, the jack, her dashboard, and a whole lot of other, more minor, but original stuff. Jazz was in Florida, and I was still out of it, so I sent my son Travis, and one of his old BSA buddies, Larry Panther, go fetch her with a car carrier. The three of them were back in about three days. I had told Travis not to bring her back if she would not start... or, if she blew smoke when running. His decision... period. I probably should have mentioned checking the brakes, but who would have guessed? All of my old Jag friends... and new Jag friends... are awfully tired of hearing me complain about having to pump the brakes... in order to bring the car to a stop... of course, that is nothing to keep me from driving her anyway. But let me digress again...when Travis & Larry delivered Jazz to the house, I had Trav move her into the garage. I started immediately to remove the bonnet, windshield, dashboard... and a lot of other junk... I have no clue what I was thinking... I didn't even drive her around the block... how do you do that? Anyway, from talking to the previous owner, I knew that Jazz did not have working windshield wipers, and I had no clue about the cooling system, so it seemed like a way to get started. With that part, I would not change much. From the get-go, I soon learned that there was something really wrong with the brakes. We'll talk about that... maybe... next time.

Roger Hanes

Saga of E-Types with Roger Hanes, and his E-Type that he named "All that Jazz"

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