The ones with the covered headllights sell for a premium. The removal of the
covers was a government regulation that was ill-concieved.
From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 3:13 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
Here's one that looks exactly like mine including the color except that
mine had a dark blue interior.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zDCmEkT3CE
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zDCmEkT3CE&NR=1> &NR=1>
This is a '65, mine was a '64. If there's an exterior difference I
can't recognize it except that this car has amber turn signals, my '64
didn't. My car also had a 4.2 liter engine with triple SUs as does this
'65. I was told that's a combination that's not supposed to exist for
'64. Maybe late 64 production merging into '65?
It was a grand machine. Despite the stories of Jag unreliability it
drove me to work and back every day for about 4 years. Never failed to
start up and get me to work on time except for one failing battery.
(but, twiddling the carbs with a Unisyn gage was a regular activity).
The incident with replacing the rear brakes is what caused me to sell
it. Because the rear suspension cage has to be removed to get at the
inboard brake rotors it took me 6 weeks of spare time working alone to
rebuild the brakes. I think it took me a week just to get the
suspension cage out due to the rusted retaining bolts which I had to
laboriously drill straight through for about 3 inches. Hardened steel
bolts don't like to be drilled. I also had to pay a machinist a lot of
money to build some special tools to be able to re-bore the wheel
cylinders which were pitted beyond honing. Probably the prior owners
neglect and choice of the wrong brake fluid. Girling brakes are fussy
in that respect.
It was probably stupid of me to sell it at that point since I had
already done the work and spent the money but I was unhappy with all the
work and expense that was required as well as the lack of a car for 6 weeks.
I replaced it with the '73 Mercury Capri which tried its damnedest to
kill both me and my wife. The first incident was the failure of the
splines on the steering shaft whilst running down a mountain road. The
next was the driver's seat back collapsing backwards when my wife was
driving it. And the last straw was the heater blower motor catching
fire under the dash and costing me $1300 for repair. Arrgh.
Since then none of our cars has actively tried to kill us.
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/19/2010 1:46 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
> XKE's are one of the sexiest cars EVER. Period. Also have a warm spot for
Ferrari 246GT Dinos.
>
>
> Paul Braun
> Certified Music Junkie
>
>
> "The Nachos are still good." -- Jim Peterik
>
> "It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." -- David St. Hubbins
>
> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Harlan Howard
>
> On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:46, Chuck Norcutt<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>> Yes, I sometimes think I'd like another but probably couldn't afford it
>> anymore. That was about 1973 and a 64 E-type wasn't very expensive.
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>>
>> On 11/19/2010 1:41 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>>> But YOU HAD AN XKE! No sympathy here!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 10:53 AM
>>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ala Jag XKE. I remember pulling the rear suspension cage on my '64 XKE
>>> to work on the brakes. After fighting a couple of thoroughly rusted
>>> bolts that had to be drilled out I got the whole suspension cage down
>>> onto the garage floor. While on my knees examining it I dropped a
>>> wrench on the floor. In reaching for the wrench I banged my shoulder
>>> into one of the four rubber isolater brackets that held the suspension
>>> cage in and broke it off! Didn't injure my shoulder either! I then
>>> checked the other three and found that all of them were at least
>>> partially separated. Not long before that I has been touring down a
>>> twisty mountain road. Gulp! Reminiscent of the time the splines on the
>>> the steering shaft on my '73 Mercury Capri failed going down the same
>>> road. Or the time I broke half of the spokes out of the front wheels on
>>> my '57 Sunbeam Alpine while on a different twisty road. Some things
>>> remind me I'm lucky to still be here. :-)
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/19/2010 10:33 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>>>> Yes, there were a few re-engined with a very small but potnet V8 of
>>> american
>>>> ancestry, but I forget whose. Like many other of these projects, few
were
>>>> really thought out. His was probably a TR6, as they all had problems
with
>>>> the differential mounting. As the 6 had IRS, the diff was mounted to
the
>>>> frame on a bracket with rubber isolaters, which in the cases of either
the
>>>> front or rears were quite strong, enough indeed that the bracket, make
of
>>>> stamped metal, couldn't hold up. They all cracked, the question was
when.
>>> I
>>>> remember having mine welded. Even the torque of the original motor
could
>>>> break a diff loose when badly cracked. Oh, those english!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Piers Hemy [mailto:piers@xxxxxxxx]
>>>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 7:50 AM
>>>> To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion'
>>>> Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bill, your words remind me of an off-list exchange with Walt Wayman,
who
>>>> discovered that his re-engined TR (I think it might have been a -5
rather
>>>> than a -6, but I can't remember the size of the new and bigger engine
he
>>> had
>>>> put in it) had rather more torque than he had expected, and
considerably
>>>> more than the back axle could handle. As far as I recall, the back
axle
>>> was
>>>> ripped off the bodyshell. Completely.
>>>>
>>>> Piers
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Bill Pearce [mailto:bs.pearce@xxxxxxx]
>>>> Sent: 18 November 2010 23:29
>>>> To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion'
>>>> Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
>>>>
>>>> When I had my TR6, I noted frequently that generally there was adequate
>>>> space in the engine compartment for a nice Buick/Rover V6 with
>>> supercharger
>>>> or a small V8, so the straight six was easy to work on, but rarely
needed
>>>> it. The electricals were remarkably reliable, as long as you didn't
want
>>>> lights, defroster, wipers and the radio all at once. Sure had a lot of
>>>> torque.
>>>>
>>>> --snip
>>>>
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