Thursday night 9pm channel 4 might be a good to watch prog about the newly set up Jag heritage dept building the six lightweight racers. My only hope is that their target audience isn't the bell ends on goggle box. Fingers crossed.
That indeed, will be a very interesting programme. I have previously driven a racing 'd' type, admittedly not for many laps-but still frigging good fun, and what a noise.
If the goggle box goons get hold of it you know there will be a "how much? I could get a nice Astra for a fraction of that" or... "Yeah but it's just a car"
It's always good to see real craftsmen at work - proper engineering. It's something that is sadly becoming very rare these days...
Back in my youth while hammering around the New Forest in my 'souped up' Hillman Avenger A D-type jag roared up behind me and we both sort of 'raced' for a bit .The noise those things make is amazing. I realized eventually that it was being driven by Lord Montagu and let him pass me . I was a bit nervous with him behind me knowing of his past. I still wonder if he was driving one of the Le Mans cars from the museum.
wow ,really enjoyed that. watching a craftsman at work is a true joy, Britain is losing this skill base in every theatre of industry and I fear it wont and cant be replaced. on a lighter note....I was working at a gentleman farmers house once when I enquired after his e type, in the shed he replied and off we went, he told me he hadn't looked at it in about four years. there it was under a bird crap covered sheet, on removal first off I saw the flat tyres,then the dust. its a hard top in red, the smell of leather inside is history, the lines are just art. so then im told he just drove it into the shed ,threw a sheet over it ,walked out and locked up.....four years later here we are...I asked if he at least drained the fuel and carbs,nope. I still wonder how much to put it on the road , and its still in the shed........beside a Porsche.
Things like that are a classic case of "if you have to ask you can't afford it", sadly. The truly sad part about that sort of thing is that if the car had been prepared for storage properly it would be possible to revive it fairly easily, but if it's just been left in a barn with a sheet over it it's probably well on the way to being beyond (economical) repair.
