1969 Jaguar E-Type 2+2.....shabby jag

And being modern pattern rubber parts they will probably fail inside a year too...

It would be very tempting to just fit some modern high temperature rubbers such as the one below which give much better isolation but I guess that is seen a non original and a major no no in the E type world.


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Some more work fitting the new exhaust.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but that looks like a brilliantly re-purposed gate latch?

This is going to be something else when this is finished.  Really enjoying the thorough refresh and upgrades (adding lightness!).

Rhyd

Today's job was to look at the bracketry for the clutch-brake bottles. Had to remove it all to fit the new rear exhaust header. It was scruffy and a bit cr@p - in both design and age. I didn't like that the brackets ran close to the header flanges and that there was 4 of them.

Found a nice "u" bracket in my box of bits, reduced it down by tacking in some flat bar then recycled a Jag metal plate to fabricate a new bottle holder-thingy.

Will need to make a heat shield down the line. Have some reflective fabric somewhere.

They look very much like MGB reverse lights... but odd to see them hanging in free air

Yes, same units. It's £40-50 per lens to convert them to UK spec with orange indicators. But seeing as I don't like them, I'll be doing something else 😉

It does look a bit like they went down halfords and bought a trailer board to nail on the back! even 3 good quality small round lights under the bumper (not the cheap land rover sh!t) would look better.

This is the Texan "mot/road tax" sticker in the windscreen. Issued 1988 running out June 1989. Mileage was 58k. Current mileage is shown as 59309. I believe the Jag left Texas in 2007 going to Idaho (iirc). Was registered but never driven. Then left Idaho after storage in 2018 to the UK. Purchased by Toby Smith's business partner in 2018 as one of 8 cars in their last batch of imports. (Smith died in 2017 and was bigly into his etypes, going into business with a-n-other to ship American etypes over to the uk. Toby Smith was the keyboard player/song writer in jamiroquai). Of those 8, 5 were sold off early 2020 and the last 3 including this one autumn 2020. Car had been stored in a warehouse in Cambridge since 2018.

If you recall prince Harry's wedding to Megan markle, they drove off in an electric etype roadster (factory conversion). That was Toby Smith's (well technically his wife's as he was dead).

Lovely coincidence that the sticker shows'69' and the car was built in '69'. I'll leave the innuendos to you lot.