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Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?

Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:42:16 -0500
And now the covers have been back for a long time.  This time made of 
plastic instead of glass and they tend to yellow.

Chuck Norcutt


On 11/19/2010 5:00 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> 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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