{"id":5943,"date":"2016-03-22T09:39:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T09:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:53:36","slug":"profitable-welding-supplies-buys-e-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/profitable-welding-supplies-buys-e-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Selling Welding Supplies Really Buy You One of the Most Iconic Cars in the World?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you really get what you pay for?<\/h2>\n

I was engrossed in a catch up documentary last night on the E-type Jaguar for a number of reasons<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s a beautiful car<\/li>\n
  2. They are made only 20 minutes away from home<\/li>\n
  3. Who has \u00a31.2 million to spend on a car?<\/li>\n
  4. You had\u00a0to be hand picked to buy one!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Not being a car enthusiast but as everyone loves the E-type, I decided to sit and watch the programme on one of the most iconic, sexy car ever built.<\/p>\n

    Facts<\/h3>\n

    There were\u00a0only six of them made in the Midlands and they have all been sold.<\/p>\n

    Jaguar has turned the clock back 50 years to recreate their iconic lightweight E-type racing cars.<\/p>\n

    Only 12 were made in the 1960s which now change hands for up to \u00a35 million.<\/p>\n

    The new aluminium cars took six months of painstaking work to produce; being hand made at the Coventry plant.<\/p>\n

    \"Inside-Jaguar-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Then low and behold the first chosen customer who is asked to part with \u00a31.2 million is a guy from Nebraska who owned a Welding Supply company called LinWeld Inc<\/a>. \u00a0Never did I think selling welding equipment<\/a> and gases could be so profitable!!! \u00a0American Millionaire John Breslow sold his company and made enough to buy a collection of cars<\/a> amounting to 35.<\/p>\n

    The Jaguar Heritage<\/a> site insist they are helping clients indulge in their passion for their cars. \u00a0These six luxury cars will not have one Spot weld<\/a> like the thousands being made today using robotics but everyone will be riveted by hand.<\/p>\n

    They team of passionate Engineers also found in the North of England, the original pressing machine to make the bonnet.<\/p>\n

    Interested in this story? Then read more about it here<\/a> and watch Channel 4More<\/a> to see this sleek, powerful car take to the road.<\/p>\n

    This was written by Claire Spillane, Financial Director of Westermans International Ltd and soon to be owner (forever dreaming) of an E-type Jag with it’s own colour coded suitcase!<\/p>\n

    Maybe Westermans\u00a0should start selling gas???!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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