Dad had a couple of E Type Jags too.....He ordered a new series 3 V12 2+2 coupe (signal red / black leather / automatic trans / chrome wire wheels) and was put on a long waiting list, he got sick of waiting (impatient bugger my dad) so he went out and bought a second hand 69 series 2 coupe in dark blue / black leather / manual trans / chrome wire wheels, to do him whilst he was waiting.... a week later he got the call from the dealer telling him his new car arrived early.
So now he had 2 E Types! he gave the blue one to my 19 yr old sister.
Anyway he parked the new one in the drive with the blue one and came out to find some bloke intently studding his car, it turns out this bloke had ordered one in the exact same spec from the same dealer but much earlier than dad.
The dealer had mistakenly given dad this blokes allocated order...the poor bugger wasn't a happy camper! especially as dad had 2 E types and this poor bastard had none!
This dealer seemed to often stuff up orders, when dad decided tho up date his series 1 XJ6 (russet "turd" brown / biscuit leather / OD manual trans) to a XJ6 series 2 in dark blue / black leather / auto trans) what showed up was white / red leather / auto trans.
He took it anyway as he couldn't be arsed arguing about it (dad's impatience strikes again!)
I paid accidentally got pay back on the dealer, a few years later when I borrowed a loan car from them (a Peugeot 504) and wrote it off in a head on collision with a mate coming the other way in his brand new Ford TF series Cortina Ghia........ he'd only had it for a few days!
it turned out the the dealer had forgotten to pay the rego before they lent me the car, so that voided their insurance!
apert from a few cuts and bruises I was the only one injured with a broken hand.
In a small country town it is highly likely that you will know the other driver in an accident.