MadaboutKitcars

Well Jonesy, I'm glad I'm helping someone!

But I also find it hard to go out and work in the cold, but keep telling myself that if I don't keep at it I'll never finish it!

It doesn't always work, but when the guilt builds up, I HAVE to go out!!

Try and find things that you can do in the warm, even if you have to strip them off the car first! (Like my door)

Good luck with yours and keep at it.

Nice work on those Scottie, it's good to see i'm not the only one faffing with doors atm!





At least we can be thankful that ours aren't scissor doors, now they ARE a pain!!

Well Paul, you solved that one very neatly by glassing your doors in place! To be honest, when I saw what you had done, I was tempted,
as it would have saved me a helluva lot of work, but of course, decided against it in the end, which was probably the best option for my cars integrity.

Dave, you too huh? they are a pain I agree, but it has to be done, (as the vicar said to the little... oh never mind)

Merry Christmas to everyone that reads my thread, and also to those that don't!

And to you scottie....

Merry Christmas to you Scottie

ThAnK YoU, and to you too. Ed.

Merry Christmas to you Scottie and look forward to future instalments on your thread.

Boxing Day

Thanks for the good wishes fellahs!

Jonesy: I was reading Danny's thread and noticed his gear stick arrangement.
Almost identical to what I will use, but mine came off my 1971 Spitfire donar car.
I think all cars of that age had similar.

Should look good once in place. Good luck with yours ( Danny's)

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Looking good as always Scottie, just flucking through instagram and came across this...

Nice picture, Danny, an F Type would be a lot cheaper though!!

Monday

Over the festive period I went to a party and met an old army friend who told me about a fellow that lived fairly local to us who apparently had
"a fairly good collection of classic cars"
He promised me some pictures of them.

Today I had his email, and was actually staggered by what I saw in the pictures!
It surely must be the mother of all private collections.

I have not counted (I'm sure some one will!!) But he appears to have around 20 E Types, 10 or so mark two', God knows how many XK 120's 140's and 150's and the list goes on..........

I would like to share the pics with you all, so here they are:

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wow!!!!!!!

Lots of truly beautiful cars there.

Although it does look like they are never driven and that seems a real shame to me.

Cars in a museum is one thing, but if I could actually afford a private collection of that size, I'd rather have a fraction of the cars and use the extra money for a mechanic and valet to keep them in top condition after I've been out on the road with them.

Now where did I put my lottery ticket?

Cheers, Paul.

Looks like he got a good price for it:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2706034/Worth-100MILLION-Dentist-amassed-Britains-biggest-private-car-collection-543-classic-motors-sells-entire-fleet-Jaguar.html

That reminds me, I must sign up for the dentist soon, good job they don't charge much!

Well. I think that link says it all!

He started a chain of dentists, fair play to him to have earned that much cash.

Just fabulous, I particularly like the collection of pedal cars stored in racks at the back of picture 1.

I believe that the prototype 4WD Scimitar GTE went in that collection too - still not sure what JLR intend to do with it.

Happy new year, Scottie. Have a look at Spectre coatings for spraying chrome.

New Years day

Well, I went out to the car to connect and test my stereo unit, which I had fitted before the Christmas period.
I connected the speakers up, and the live and earth, and it would not work.
Poosticks! Or something like that!

Flat battery, totally dead, so dead, that I'm wondering whether I have a leak somewhere that is draining the (new) battery.

One way I know is to fit a cut off switch, but the right way is to find the offending "leak" Any ideas anyone???????

Just over a year ago, when I re-routed the battery to the boot, I posted a picture of it, (complete with its 42 year old post type lead connectors, and was immediately chided my Mick O'Mally. Quite rightly too.

I bought more modern replacement units, as I knew Mick was right, but of course, it never got done. So now was an ideal opportunity to play catch-up.

The battery now has its new "modern" connectors.

Take note Mick!

Incidentally, Mick is building an A352, a rather nice looking one too. and also like me, he is trying to replicate a specific Jaguar, but he has chosen the D Type to model his build on, I believe, complete with rear fin.

I do look forward to seeing that one finished too.


Right, back to my build. About a year ago, when I started stripping out my donar Spitfire, I did some minor welding in the drivers footwell, which has since developed surface rust, and that has to go, so I sanded it out and gave it the Kurust teatment.

Also the passengers side too.


After the Kurust had dried, (quite quickly, as it was assisted by me and my heat-gun)

I intended to paint the floor in a rust preventative silver paint, which I had
bought last year.

It warned me on the tin that the colour may vary in silver tone, but it did not warn me that the paint was in fact fu**ing grey, and unless an effing miracle occurs during the drying process, it will stay that way.

Still. considering the whole floor area will be hidden by ally panels, seats carpets and the like, it matters not a fig, except to say it is very irritating.

I got carried away as usual, and painted the entire boot interior in my "silver" paint, so that was not a bad way to be carried away.

So, to summarise, I did not really achieve all of what I set out to do, but by the next session, the paint will have dried, the battery will be charged, so I will be able to finally test the stereo, and then paint the passengers side "silver"

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Tata (owners of JLR) are planning on building up the historic brand credibility of the Jaguar history.

For example they just built the last of the light weight e-types based on old chassis numbers. there is a chance of some new XKSS based on the fire damaged chassis numbers too I guess.

The Indians have invested heavily in making Jaguar fit as a company since they bought it. Now they can start investing in making it a desirable brand again

Thanks for the info WCA, if they do build an XKSS I'll snap it up quick, before any multi- millionaires get a chance.................:-)

Scottie - Every job helps, so you are still heading in the right direction & the floors look good painted.

Good luck, Paul.

The boot in my Z300S has some water ingress issues - I forgot to put any cover over the boot lid brake light opening.

I have dried it out and sealed the hole but the boot floor could do with a rust treatment and respray.

What is the best solution people have found for new(ish) painted metal with relatively minor surface rust?

My hope it to rust proof the floor of the boot and then fit some removable foam sound proofing to level the boot floor. I don't want to fit the insulation before i treat the floor as it will hide any rust that is happening.

Advice please