Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

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#41 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by driver » Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:21 am

Hi everyone,
Took mine out Saturday, wolverhampton to bridgenorth I could only park safely on Aldi so Mrs E type went shopping in their, and I finished doing a 50 mile loop,all went well,.....so that's why you were happy to go to aldi she said! :bigrin: .
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#42 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by ChrisC » Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:42 pm

I had to fix a few things before taking the old girl out at the weekend - the modified handbrake needed re-adjusting so that it actually held the car on a slope. Its now back to 3 clicks to fully on and of course the clutch slave cylinder chose this weekend to liberally leak. Luckily I had a Jaguar spare on my shelf.

I think I get through a slave cylinder ever couple of years...

Fabulous drive out with wifey to a country pub for a coffee and then back home avoiding as many cyclists as I could...
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#43 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by Mark Gordon » Wed Feb 27, 2019 1:50 pm

"Fabulous drive out with wifey to a country pub for a coffee and then back home avoiding as many cyclists as I could..."

How many did you not avoid? :bigrin:
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#44 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by SEJohnson95 » Wed Feb 27, 2019 8:57 pm

Try being here in Bristol, they're an absolute nightmare

Cutting in front of pedestrians, going for gaps in crowds that really don't exist, generally being rude or riding at you on the pavement. As Martin Brundle would say, "he's driving into a disappearing wedge" and it only ends badly. You regularly feel them brush your arm as they swoop by and you're always thankful you didn't stumble at that particular moment.

I'll bring my bike down in the spring, and I will be a lot more courteous than they are!

Back onto topic - I haven't had a chance to have a run out in Richard's FHC yet, but my Dad got our Mazda out the other day and did 50 lovely sunny miles in the Peak District. He did see the odd classic, including a S2 FHC which belongs to a Club member in Sheffield.
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#45 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by chrisfell » Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:53 am

The last piece of the jigsaw puzzle is ready, a re-cored radiator. Collecting it today. Rack has been reassembled with a new passenger side bush installed. Nice smooth action, lots of clean grease inside. Header tank and mount are repainted. New hoses and clamps. Now I need to clean and re plate all the fasteners. Many are quite rusty. New wire wheel brushes have been ordered, many hours of patient fiddling ahead. Give me two or three weeks and the car will be ready for its first drive of 2019.
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#46 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by Jonny XKE » Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:58 am

Hurry up! :bigrin:
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#47 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by JulianBarratt » Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:53 am

Took my eldest daughter out for a picnic and to watch the sunset last night in ours - the view wasnt bad...not a cyclist in sight.
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#48 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by politeperson » Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:47 pm

Very nice pictures.

My car was rebuilt with your bits and pieces.

Thanks Julian.

Can you get some Koolmat in please?


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#49 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by Jonny XKE » Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:21 am

Not quite taking out .. but took it out to put on a trailer to get its clutch slip and oil leak fixed at Coopercraft.


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#50 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by Jonny XKE » Fri Apr 05, 2019 12:45 pm

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#51 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by jamesmatheson » Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:26 pm

Got her out cleaned up ready for the weekend. First trip out too Ipswich transport museum on Sunday with jec
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#52 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by Stephanie Plum » Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:45 pm

I’m off to the Members Meeting on Sunday in mine. Parked in the Chicane Paddock if anyone is going.

Been out and about a lot this year already with the lovely weather. Nice run down to Goodwood last weekend as well.

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#53 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by 1954Etype » Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:23 pm

Off to France then Germany next week. Does that count?
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#54 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by ralphr1780 » Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:08 pm

Yes it does count Angus :swerve: using your gbp savings before a further dip...
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#55 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by BRM » Sun Apr 07, 2019 6:02 am

Also at Goodwood for the weekend with mine. Looks like it might get a shower on the way home !!
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#56 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by Jonny XKE » Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:54 pm

Some night time driving in mine the other night. A new clutch has been fitted by coopercraft, it had a 3.8 clutch in it for some reason apparently.

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#57 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by JerryL770 » Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:13 pm

I saw a yellow nick-nick on a truck go past on the road outside on Sunday evening.

Taking the mutt out in the morning - THEY'VE SALTED THE B***** ROAD!! When's it going to rain again to wash the road clean?? :banghead: :cussing:
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#58 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by Jonny XKE » Tue Apr 23, 2019 7:45 am

Great run yesterday from Exeter to Marazion. Lots of road debris to prove I've been motoring.

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#59 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by chrisfell » Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:31 am

The trouble with Easter having fine weather is that it brings the rellies put in droves. Had visitations all weekend. Now I get the chance to play with my car, just before the weather turns. And just before I take it for its MOT.
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#60 Re: Anyone started to use their e-types yet?

Post by Sarthe72 » Thu May 23, 2019 6:31 pm

Only anno domini and illness has stopped me using her summer or winter, and we are well into six figure mileage together. Here she is on a nice dry day.
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