The 'E' Type Forum

Thank you - I'll give that a go

Simon

Salve! Long story, but I'm after a 1993 Italian road atlas ( atlante stradale d'Italia ) as a finishing touch for my integrale and I've found one on Italian eBay but they won't ship to the UK. Nothing to do with Brexit - I've tried to get my mate in Spain to order it and they won't send it to him e...

Not a phone or post code number: https://i.postimg.cc/cLzWwYyP/Im19621003-Mot-Henlys2.jpg My Dad bought his original Carmen Red S1 4.2 FHC new from the Manchester Peter Street branch in 1966! Henlys arranged that it was sat in the showroom window ready for collection, and when the moment came they ...

Hedging bets by only enamel coating one half of the manifold?

Also that washer fluid must be nice and toasty by the time it comes out the bottle....

Agree with Geoff.... just hurry up and decide what bloody colour to get it painted*!

Simon

(*Honestly won't be offended if you eventually decide to paint it Barbie Pink.... )

Agreed. If you discounted all the days in the UK when it either rains, or simply that the roads are wet, you'd never go out. Even on a beautiful hot sunny day, with no rain forecast, Sod's Law says a thunderstorm gets triggered off and you get caught in a torrential downpour (ask me how I know....)....

Maybe they were afraid that they'd sue themselves

If the instrument glasses serve as a useful 'tell-tale' that you've got humidity in your hidden cavities, I'm not sure why you'd want to stop them providing this service for you? When you do all the other things to the point where the instrument glasses no longer mist up, then you know your work is ...

My favourite photo from 2022:



Every picture tells a story.......

Allrand wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:49 am

IMHO there's no such thing as factory perfect, they were anything but.

That last thing you'd ever want on an E-type is 'factory perfect'....and I speak as a Lancia owner!

Re-spect!! (As 'da yoof' say )

Very well done indeed. You should be rightly proud of yourself.



Simon

Hi Guido

Yes, it blends in very nicely. As Geoff says, all you really need is a fine artists' brush and a steady hand. It's also a good idea to thin the paint a little with some acrylic thinners before you use it so that it flows from the brush more easily.

Simon

Same as Richard, I've only ever seen them in silver - Tamiya Flat Aluminium is your friend when it comes to touching then up (the original paint wears and chips very easily). The rear hatch lock was always a bit of a scruffy affair that again marks up very easily. To my eye they look like bare unfin...

Just a 'shout out' for firm that advertises in the E-type Club magazine and who I used just recently for my integrale - Revs Transportation, run by a guy called Mark Bloomer: https://www.revstransportation.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RevsTransportation/ Good friendly, knowledgeable and reliable se...

Ears on the black squares - just as The Good Lord intended!

There's a good photo of this part in situ (and shown next to the more-commonly-come-across later part) on p.36 of Clausager.

Simon

And of course, not forgetting his finest hour.......

https://youtu.be/4iOoiEbtf2w

R.I.P.

Might have taken five minutes to align the wipers on the FHC correctly too...... https://media.goodingco.com/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,q_88,w_1800/c_fill,g_center,l_WM,q_88,w_1800/v1/Prod/PB22_Pebble%20Beach%20Auctions%202022/768_1961%20Jaguar%20E-Type%20Series%20I%203.8-Litre%20Fixed%20Head%20Coup...

Funnily enough I was having a bit of a sort-out over the weekend, and came across some old petrol receipts from 2010/2011. Turns out back then I was paying just nudging £1.50 a litre for the high octane stuff, so I guess in real terms the current prices ain't all that different. The sad thing is tha...

PS oh... and the Maxi, which I thought was a horrible car, was probably the most durable of them all! Reminds me of when Car magazine back in the Eighties used to run their regular 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' feature in the back pages. All currently available cars were boiled down into a fair...