Jaguar project - in the shop

In the shop. Starting the tear down.

Jaguar project

No, I did not run over somebody!
Pulled the Jaguar out of the garage in Florida into the street. That is the tow truck driver connecting the winch to get it onto the truck for transport to the shop.











All loaded, tied down and ready to go to Imagination Engineering shop.

This was in July of 2007.

Jaguar project

This is the 1952 Jaguar XK120 as sitting in my garage in Pleasant Valley, New York since August of 1982. For the first few years I would start it up and run for a few minutes to let it warm up then shut it down until the next time. When the batteries would no longer hold a charge, I just let it sit. I moved from New York to Florida in 2005 and it came with my household items but in its own trailer behind the moving van.

Only in Florida

Due to abundance of elderly in Florida, or maybe it is a hiker? This crosswalk sign was spotted on my bike ride along the Orange county multi-use trail. There is usually very little traffic at this pedestrian crossing, so I usually do not mash the crossing button. (This is not an intersection, but a pedestrian crossing only.)
Like the dromedary in the signal, this signal is a bit different in that it has a whole (unused) segment "burned" on, rather than burned out.
As part of the Liberals dumbing down of America and multi-linguist movement, the "walk" "don't walk" English versions are being replaced by pictures of a hand - stick-man walking icon. The instructions to push the button to cross the street are still in English only. No braille, Spanish, French or pictures. What is with that?

The joys of living in the urban wild. This is a Sandhill crane. Big bird, not afraid of humans. Kind of a nuisance when he tries to get inside my sun room by pecking a hole in the screen.
I had to take down the bird feeder to try and get these guys to go somewhere else. The red wing black birds were kind of mad for a couple of days, but they will be back when the feeder goes back up.

Uncle John's organ console

By popular demand (one so far) a request for console details.

Camel crossing

Found this signal on one of my bicycle rides around Mission Bay in San Diego. The LED signals have been in San Diego for quite a few years already and some of the elements are starting to burn out.

I can not fiqure out if this is an indication of things to come, or just some random burnout. Looks like a camel (technically a dromedary, camelus dromedarius one-humped camel of the hot deserts of North Africa and Southwestern Asia) with only 3 legs.