Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 07, 2018

Ah – - the XK-E Jaguar; now there was a beautiful automobile!

Must be special. Who actually writes letters these days?

The Bunny-wunny franchise must have really taken off, for them to be riding around in an E-type!

I went to Google Images to see what it looks like and wow, I almost forgotten about those vehicles! I remember seeing them back in the late sixties and early to mid 70’s.

That should have been the warning Snoopy should have seen: Jaguar XK-E: a “cat” branded car…

Hey Snoopy. Fang needs your help. He’s been getting annoying calls from Marmaduke.

Can the Snoop dog “Trump” the bunnie wabbits? Tune in next week when Snoopy buys anXK-E to impress the Helen. It will be one sweet ride.

She’s no poodle you can awe.

I now have this mental image of the Six Bunny Wunnies in Carnaby Street finery, driving around in Austin Powers’ Shaguar…

I don’t think I’ve read this series of Peanuts strips since I was in middle school in the late 70s. Now that I’m (much, much) older, I get the XK-E reference!

It’s like watching Bugs Bunny cartoons as an adult and getting some of the humor you didn’t get as a child.

When I was a kid, I had little toy car models of “hot” cars, including the XK-E. So what kind of new car have I bought my whole life? Toyota. Although I did have one that was a limited model, called the “Town and Country”, with racing stripes, wide mag wheels, hemi engine(2-cylinder), 4 to 1 gear ratio in 1st, and a tach out on the hood. I had a drag race with an Opal GT the second night I had it. Off the line, I smoked the tires and peppered the flagman with pebbles. I was winning but said to myself “what the heck am I doing?” and let off. I think he knew I let him win and he didn’t gloat… much…

We have an XKE. Yes, they do make great driveway cars; They are guy magnets. A friend of ours raced one in SCCA in the 70’s/80’s. He had a factory sponsorship. They gave him an XKE to drive on the street, too, but he preferred the Oldsmobile that came with the oil distributorship he’d bought. (The Olds had a heater that worked.)

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