at least it was a yellow vert...


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Some presumably drunk people out California way decided to have a little bit too much fun in their recently-rented Corvette and ended up parked in salt water halfway up the car's doors. Thankfully in this day and age everyone has some sort of video recording device within arm's reach, so we have some post-parking-surfing videos below.

The story goes something like this: between two and four people - who may or may not have been racing - decided to roll on down to the end of Law Street (seriously) and take the normally pavement-pounding Corvette out to play in the sand. Once actually on the beach, the driver proceeded to do a few donuts, calmly drive the car into the water, and flee the scene.

The report indicates that some people who were involved have been detained, and that at least some of the expenses involved in pulling the car out of the sand could be recouped. All I can say for certain is that puling a car out of wet sand and water must have been hard as hell due to the suction; I learned that lesson when my friend took his Grand Marquis four-wheeling and the night ended...let's say poorly.

 

"Everybody's gone surfin' , Surfin U.S.A."

 

Someone's not getting their rental deposit back...

 

Somewhere off Eagle Point on Galveston Bay rests a C-Jag I helped restore in the early sixties. We couldn't do any more than rebuild the engine, because the barn find had been stripped of its interior, instruments, and anything that could be unbolted. Thanks to access to a machine shop and a lot of aircraft parts, we got it rolling after about a year's work. It passed through several hands after that, eventually being sold to someone with the money to do the restoration right - in about 1967.

The C-Type was a classic, of which only 43 examples were ever built. It raced at Le Mans, Goodwood, Monoco, and the Mille Migilia from '52 to '53 before the more aerodynamic D-Type bowed the following year. With a 225 hp straight six, sporting DOHC and a pair of SU carbs, the engine represented the early fifties state-of-the-art for the famous Jaguar Six that continues in production today. Most famously driven by Sterling Moss to many victories, the "C" was lightweight, despite its size, and served as a test bed for many of the technologies we take for granted today.

Jaguar XK-C - 1952 classic. (photo courtesy RM Auctions)

The story goes that the owner was tooling down Bayshore Drive late one night in a dubious state of sobriety, and punched the throttle, hitting third gear and the boat ramp at the end of the road simultaneously. According to local legend the "C-Type" skipped a couple times as it crashed into Galveston Bay before nosing in, and disappearing beneath the waves. The owner was thrown out and when he surfaced, much the worse for the experience, was dragged out by a couple of witnesses.

Now if you really want a big time restoration project, one waits for you somewhere in the mud at the bottom of Galveston Bay. It was never found, thanks both to the disagreement between witness statements and the currents and mud around Eagle Point. If you could find it, current value for a frame-off restored "C" is somewhere well north of $4 million. How's that for motivation?

 

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Damn! That's a beautiful Jag!!!

 

Junior Seau have another argument?