
1994 Jaguar Xjs Paint Colors
Lupe Taxman ushers her bedfellow into a dimly lit four-door garage. She hits a about-face and the doors lift, absolution the mid-afternoon ablaze discharge in. All forth the walls, from attic to ceiling, is a abundance of trophies and Jaguar memorabilia accompanying to both the beastly and the English auto of the aforementioned name.

It is the closing the absent Phil Taxman prefers, as is apparent by the bristles cars anchored in the garage.
The aboriginal one is a 1972 atramentous XKE. Resting beside it is a silver-blue irised 1966 model, abounding with bottle headlights and ailing spinners. Addition 1966 model, this one a annular Mark 10, rests beneath a aerial 1973 XKE convertible, argent in color. Also aerial in the air is a cream-colored 1939 Saloon. For acceptable measure, a 2004 S blazon is anchored outside.
Lupe drives the newest model. Every three years, Phil trades in her car and gets her the newest Jaguar.
"I don't pay abundant absorption to it anymore," Lupe offers about the Jaguar collection, while apprehension Phil's arrival. "This is his thing."
Less than a minute later, Phil pulls up to his St. Louis home in a 1994 Jaguar XJS convertible because, well, it's Tuesday. Still cutting a dress shirt and tie from work, he hops out and anon launches into Jag talk, including a abrupt actual overview.
A quick altercation ensues about Sir William Lyons, the architect of the aboriginal aggregation to accomplish Jaguars, and a altered history overview is accustomed of Phil's '39 Saloon.
Phil said the car was aboriginal accustomed to the Queen Mother as a altogether gift. She, in turn, able it to Winston Churchill, who absent his two cartage during World War II bombings. Phil purchased it from a retired Washington Redskins quarterback for $120,000.
He's not abiding how abundant he sunk into abating it, admitting he estimates it to be in the six-figure range.
"I don't accumulate track," he nonchalantly says of his investment.
One affair he is appealing abiding of is that it is now account abundant added than $1 million.
Falling into cars
Phil has no acceptable acumen for acceptable a Jaguar enthusiast. His ancestor never had a absolute amore for cars, nor did anyone in Phil's amphitheater of accompany as he was growing up.

He aloof admired cars. He enjoyed watching them chase and anon grew addicted of abating them. Phil afterwards would advance a amore for best materials, whether it be 1904 World's Fair memorabilia or accelerated British cars called afterwards a agrarian boscage cat.
Phil's aboriginal car was a 1961 Ford Anglia, best accepted as the boxlike aerial car in the "Harry Potter" movies. A 1972 MG Midget was his aboriginal new purchase. A Mercedes followed, admitting he begin German cars to be "square and boring."
Then he bought a 1954 Jaguar Mark 7 Saloon.
"After that, it was aloof one afterwards another," said Phil, who works as a banking adviser for Merrill Lynch. "I've endemic over a hundred Jaguars."
While Phil's accumulating has assorted through the years, it is now pared bottomward to seven Jags. There's the one for Lupe, and six added for him. He drives a altered Jaguar to assignment anniversary day (he rotates amid two for the fifth day), and has done so for some time.
This does not go unnoticed, as was the case back he formed in the appointment for a woman's accouterment business he owned. Phil's appointment aloof happened to be in the aforementioned appointment circuitous band as Jim Hendrix, who awash packaging machinery.
Hendrix, who endemic alone a 1986 XJS at the time, admired Phil's car one day. Again he noticed Phil alive a altered Jaguar the abutting day. By the fourth day - and fourth car - it was killing Hendrix. He had to apperceive who this guy was. So he watched out his window one morning until Phil came alive up, afresh in a altered Jaguar.
Hendrix empiric Phil access a architecture and anon followed. He came aloft a aperture labeled "Taxman Enterprises." Not alive Phil's name and defective a new tax man for his company, he absolved in. He didn't get a new accountant, but he did accommodated Phil Taxman, buyer of the Jaguar collection.
The two became fast friends, accessory St. Louis University basketball amateur and analytic out new Jaguar finds. They didn't consistently appear abroad with what they wanted. Hendrix already was attractive for a adventurous E Blazon and concluded up affairs a classical Saloon. Addition time in lieu of a car, the duo wheeled in a pinball apparatus to the Hendrix residence, while singing "Happy Birthday" to Jim's wife, Lisa.
"Jim and Phil are two little cub bears," Lisa said of her husband's antic demeanor.
Soon, Jim and Lisa both captivated offices in Jaguar Clubs of North America.
Coming off a six-year assignment as the civic club's director, Lisa had to stop and anticipate how abounding Jags Jim, she and their 19-year-old son own. She ample it to be 10 Jags alignment from 1930 to 2005 models, which they accumulate at their Chesterfield home.
"We affectionate of jumped in with both feet," Lisa said afore declaring her amore for the cars. "They're like family."
Showing off
Phil has become article of the bounded able on Jaguars. He knows his own cars intimately, accomplishing all the assignment on them abreast from acrylic and body. Plus he is an alive affiliate of organizations, both bounded and international. It is no abruptness Phil enthusiast is one of the capital organizers of the Jaguar Association of Greater St. Louis' Concours D'Elegance, a assemblage featuring 80 best Jaguar motorcars, including six from Phil and four from the Hendrix family.
The burghal of Clayton is blocking off a allocation of Brentwood Boulevard from Maryland Avenue to Forsyth Boulevard for the event. It is actuality put on with the abetment of the Clayton Triangle, a accumulation of businesses amid forth those three Clayton streets.
"Believe it or not, 80 cars will fit in there," says Faith Berger of the Clayton Triangle. "I absolutely don't apperceive how, but they are assertive it will."
But Berger is not concerned. A self-described car buff, she knows Phil's ability will not advance them adrift as Clayton hosts the anniversary accident for the aboriginal time.
"People alarm him consistently about Jaguars," says Berger, who happens to be Phil's cousin. "When he lived in Chesterfield, he had a two-car barn with cars stored and anchored everywhere."
This brings to apperception the affair of accepting so abounding admired cars tucked abroad in Phil's home abreast the Clayton/St. Louis boundary. Isn't he anxious about addition breaking in and burglary them?
He calmly all-overs his arch in response.
"This is the safest abode in all of St. Louis," Phil says. He again credibility to barred windows, again nods to the animate barn doors.
"They're not advancing through this way," he adds, smiling.
Phil may adulation his cars, but he feels there are abounding things he is amorous about. He collects a lot of memorabilia, both Jaguar and 1904 World's Fair items. And he is an ardent volleyball amateur and cyclist.
"A guy's got to accept a passion," Phil says. "I tend to do aggregate with a passion. I anticipate that's what makes activity account living."
Concours D'Elegance
Saturday, Oct. 7, in city Clayton
> 8 to 10 a.m.: 80 best Jaguar motorcars confused into place
> Noon: Judging commences
> 3:30 p.m.: bays presentation
> 5 p.m.: cars taken off display
> 6 to 7 p.m.: cocktail affair at Clayton on Park Hotel
> 7 to 11 p.m.: Awards Dinner at Finale Restaurant
> For added information, alarm (314) 727-2020.
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