The 'E' Type Forum

i know of one other steel sunroofed E. It was made by and fitted by Webasto, had electric operation and used switches that Webasto also used when they fitted sunshine roofs to Rolls Royces.

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My E’s mileometer is 35 short of clicking over to all zeros. Again.

This is why. Yesterday was just another Thursday. We had a spare afternoon so decided to go and walk around the RSPB reserve at Arne, about 40 miles or so from home. It was a nice walk, but the birds were being very shy, clearly not impressed with the few of us venturing out in a sunny July afternoo...

David, Just expressing my own opinion based on my own experiences. I’ve driven my car over 60,000 miles, in this island and on the continent. I’ve driven it up the Alps, and down again, same with the Pyrenees, and the Highlands of Scotland. I’ve driven it in 40 degree heat, and along sub-zero roads....

And the sky is way too blue, it needs clouds.

Malcolm, My bag of nail hasn’t had that heat shield for all the 16 years and 60,000miles I’ve owned it. Not sure what the shield was supposed to protect, but it ain’t been missed yet. My car is also missing all the exhaust heat shields underneath the body, except the ones over the two main silencers...

My bag of nails burns oil, visibly. Mostly on the overrun, indicating sloppy valve guides r brittle valve stem seals. Or both. It also leaks quite large puddles of oil from various points around the engine. Given this is am not at all worried that I have to use the 1.5 litres that I don’t put in at ...

I’ve pulled engines from a Ford Escort and from a Triumph Dolomite Sprint without a hoist, using no more than leg muscles and strategically placed boxes to walk the engine out of the car. Dad told me three men were required to do this for the engine on a Bedford Truck during his WW2 service years, t...

“was the 265 meant to be at the crank or the the wheels..” Er,... neither. To say it was an estimate is being charitable, it was a lie. Not even with all ancillaries removed and separately powered (water pump, oil pump, as well as alternator/dynamo) would the gross output get close to 265. A good 4....

There is a reason why the S3 wings are flared. If the track of a S1 or S2 car is widened at the front, that reason becomes clear. It is true that the track makes the S1 and S2 look inept, especially when at a standstill, but wider wheels will make a difference. An alternative I’ve often wondered abo...

Tony, Recent years the turnout has been quite poor. This year we had Masaerttis Healeys Caterhams and a few others joining in, but even with these additions the ‘paddock’ was less than half full. 15 years ago it would have been packed with over 100 Es plus Mk2s etc with other marques resigned to the...

Maybe my explanation was confusing, I fill with 9 rather than 10 litres, adding the next 1 litre over 3,000 miles as oil is burned or drops onto tarmac, making a total of 10 litres per oil change. I stand by my experience, that my more marginal overfilling hasn’t damaged my engine yet, and as alread...

Malcolm, Others will disagree with this, try and tell me I’m trashing my engine and forecast all kinds of damage that may be caused as a result, but...... this is my experience with my car’s engine for all of the last 16 years and over 60,000 miles. I always overfill the sump. Top of the hash mark a...

Interesting and so full of holes, that only a politician (who didn’t like people enjoying themselves) could have thought of it. Yesterday, at Prescott (see other posts), one of the loudest cars to run up the hill wasn’t an E with a free flowing straight through exhaust, nor was it one of the many ra...

I had an interesting lunch at Prescott, talking to William Heynes.

The E-Type Register’s annual bash at Prescott today. First one that I’ve been to when Norman Dewis wasn’t there. Not many Es there either. I’ve been at Prescott in earlier years with north of 100 E-Types turning up, many of which went up the hill. In fun, of course, no competition! Two cars stood ou...

“Maybe they did just grab whatever part was nearest, and slap it on???” Yup, that’s pretty much what happened, especially in the early days when the factory were desperate to get cars out of the door. (Source of this information is someone who was there, then.) However that doesn’t mean that any par...

If you have a budget that precludes considering much of the E-Type market, then you could be looking for a 2+2. These are the best value Es by a long way. All the E-Type experience, half the purchase price. I came into E-Type ownership 16 years ago, with a budget, and bought my S1 2+2 from a retaile...

Check that the light units are adequately earthed. What could be happening is that the brake light is earthing back through the sidelight circuit. It is quite common with corroded lights on older British Iron after many winters.

Says 350Z on the back. Guessing that’s what it is.....