The 'E' Type Forum

Hi Stuart I was not trying to be dismissive of all the hard effort put in by Norman Dewis et al. But more thinking along the lines of your last sentence and I apologise for the poor way I expressed my thoughts. How much is down to the poor seals supplied to Jaguar and marketed under their name? Manu...

Is it just incompetence in the original design of the seals, Jaguar or not, and an acceptance of weeping seals as normal? Might sound silly but I could believe it from that period of industrial strife

Geoff

Ollie, thanks for posting these photos. Hopefully Alun and others can now consider it as an option. I certainly like it.

Regards

Geoff

I believe the owner does visit the forum. Sadly I’ve forgotten his user name so can’t ping him a pm.
Let’s hope Angus can find a photo to post or will contact the owner to do that.

Geoff

Al, before you go ahead and fix those door chromes have a look at Angus Moss’s website, or phone him https://www.mossjaguar.com/index.html On a recent visit to his open day there was a 2+2 with no door chrome and it looked so nice. It may be a standard item but without it the doors and lines looked ...

Another way of getting exact length bolts/screws etc is to by aircraft hardware. Still done to the nearest eight of an inch and with correct plain shank vs thread. Rather expensive though. But cheaper than buying a lathe to make your own.

Geoff

Layne, presumably you can keep the attachment bracket then just put a new bullet mirror onto it? Would that be the best way to go as I’m guessing you can buy the bullet mirrors easily enough in the US?

Geoff

Max, there are a few classic car restorers in the New Forest area, I don’t know them to recommend one or another. However you might find it easier to look for one of the windscreen repair people. Anyone who has experience of fitting older style car glass (not the modern bonded windows) will probably...

Well I’ve gone ahead and paid for IPvanish which David (Heuer) said he uses. A couple of requests to them for confirmation that my wife can also use the same account (yes). Now I can see the glamour photos again :bigrin: But of far greater importance, all the photos posted in topics that help show h...

Another source of hardware for the engine frame could be Andy Rayner at Hutsons . https://www.hutsonmoco.co.uk/ I had no idea of Rory’s concern about Chuck’s hardware but stand corrected, thanks. Rory has previously listed a very good diagram of the engine frame hardware as an excellent reference fo...

Mont, (btw what is your name?) have you looked at this topic? https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18854 You are not a million miles away from Angus Moss in Letchworth, why not give him a call to ask if you could visit to see his car? It may sway you one way or another to which you would li...

Daniel, I presume you’ve searched on here for both C8737/2 and C8667/2 not just in factory fit section. I found a few useful references to both. Including people sourcing full sets of nuts and bolts from Chuck at Monocoque. To me the use of nyloc can be looked at in two ways. On the throttle pedal b...

Rory, the word free always appeals, yes, I’m a scrounger, unwashed, unloved and all those terms of endearment. But happy to also be the conduit for posting on to others in Britain if you get a bulk acceptation of your offer.

ATB

Geoff

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Sun Oct 05, 2025 8:05 am

Upcoming trip to Mallorca with the Barcelona Jag Club, looks like it’s a discrete cut-a-shroud in 3mm plywood coming up, disguised with a rattle can, fortunately no concours judging

And we won’t tell anyone though a few photos from that would be interesting to see. Have fun

Quite seriously I’d have thought a man of your calibre could fairly easily make up a replacement out of welded aluminium

Geoff

Great Britain was always classed as one of the freest democracies as unlike so many that have a bill of rights or similar which give the people the right to do certain things (everything else is therefore not allowed) in Britain with no bill of rights the rules only say what we can’t do, everything ...

Stuart, we know the answer is 42

It looks like this problem is not just seen on here as the JEC members’ classified adverts have several with their photos blank.

Geoff

There I was thinking we lived in a free world democracy, but it now seems I’ve got to pay to pretend I live in a n other country that may or may not be a democracy, but this forum will then let me look at all those images Heuer posts in Collectors Corner. Confused of ? As I’ve not chosen which count...

Angus, I’m sure Chris would be turning in his grave! There is hope the Classic will return in its previous format where we would even see the old Le Mans Bentleys thundering around. It might take a year or two to prove itself attractive to those owners/drivers but let’s hope it’ll be worth attending...

Only the strut on one side

Geoff