Hot on the trail of a tow vehicle for our soon to be purchased
travel trailer, we were checking out a lead at our local Jaguar store. We didn’t know if there was such a truck, but
if there were, a Jag pickup would be worth checking out.
We sheepishly snuck our old land yacht into the lot and
parked next to a large Land Rover. Later
we learned that the custom built Land Rover had a window sticker of $250,000.
We were extra careful with our doors.
We entered a building full of white vehicles with their lights
left on. The ultra-modern building was
staffed by people ultra-eager to please – coffee, tea, doughnut -Sir?
The show room contained eight Land Rovers and one gorgeous Ferrari
two-seater sports car. No Jaguars in sight, let alone an RV tow vehicle.
I asked our assigned representative if he had a Jaguar pick ‘em
up truck in stock. His response was slow
to develop, not knowing, I suppose, if I really had any money or if I did and was
joking.
He told us it was hard to get Jaguars to stock because they all
are special order and production was nearly sold out. Only that very morning he had taken orders
for three, he declared. Hard to imagine I
know, but the entire line of Jaguars will be electric next year. Get your 2024 order in soon.
We studied each other for a short while until he remembered that
he did, indeed, have a “pick ‘em up truck” in the back lot. Sure enough, surrounded by a Bentley Coupe,
a Lamborghini, a new Corvette, and a Ford Shelby stood a custom Jaguar RV Tow Vehicle,
cleverly disguised as black metallic Ford F150 Lariat.
They hemmed, we hawed. They agreed to fix a few things. We
agreed that our land yacht was a bit sorry after the 9,000 mile road trip last
year. It needed tires, only one of the power
windows worked and if you drove it awhile it threw the code-$$$.
Oddly, I haven’t found the button to uncloak the Jag, but
you can hear him roar when the blower kicks in…..
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