Jaguar - Paint shop

Visited my Jaguar today, and brought along one of the seats and the interior feathers and bones to get an estimate on doing the interior of the cockpit. Looking forward to getting this project done and on the road.

Jaguar - Paint shop

In the parking lot of the paint shop. A couple of other projects ahead of me. Hopefully they will start work Monday.

Jaguar - Paint

Got a call from Richard at Imagination Engineering. He sent me some pictures from the paint shop of my baby on the trailer getting ready to unload.

Made it to the painters at Midnight Customz.





Progress.

Jaguar Project - Bodywork

It has been a couple of months without an update. Imagination Engineering has been having some political and other problems, so progress has been at a stand still.

-- The body and paint man quit and moved to the Bahamas so I had to find a reasonable paint shop. The local experts will only do show/concourse quality paint and want an arm, leg and first born child as payment. The body shops that do quality work, only do insurance claims. I was lucky enough to find Midnight Customz that will do the work at a reasonable price. They have done some show cars and don't require the first born, only two sheep and a goat.

-- The county got a new business inspector, and was overly zealous in the inspection of the premises. She wanted to slap a $1K fine per day if all the violations were not fixed in a very short time. So the Jag (still unnamed) was put on the back-back burner until things could get resolved. It turns out that the land they are on is being leased from the rail road, so it is exempt from a lot of the new business laws that were passed to put small business out of business.

After and in spite all that, there has been progress!


Major work to the boot lid. Rebuilt from the original plus one from a scrapped XK120. The doors also needed major repairs and alignment. Completed.


All ready to be transported to the paint shop. Hopefully he/she (still unnamed) made it to the paint shop. It was going there last Wednesday, the day I traveled to the left coast.

I am still looking for a name for my XK120. It used to be the "Orange Crate" due to the almost international orange color. But that name will no longer apply due to the new planned color of Nordic Mist metalic (Blueish Silver). Any suggestions? I am looking for a unique name for my kitty cat.

Jaguar finally registered and licensed

I have been working on this all last month. Getting insurance (Hagerty), DMV forms, and old California proof of ownership. Spent about an hour at the DMV getting it done.

Finally got the sheriff out to verify and fill out the DMV form. She is the only one in Orange county that does this, and she is only working part time due to a back operation.

Now all that has to be done is painting, carpet, miscellaneous trim, chrome, hood (convertible top) and toneau cover. Getting closer all the time.

Home problem

Yesterday was a busy day. I had a wet spot in the carpet that I thought was a water pipe leak under the slab. I called a local plumber, Grace Plumbing, that specialized in leak detection. After much probing and prodding he located the water was coming from the air conditioner.

He called Damage Control Emergency Services to clean up the water damage and Air Supply Cooling and Heating to fix the air conditioner. The cause of the problem was a blockage on the air conditioner condenser. The condenser is at about a 45 degree angle so that the water that is dehumidified from the air will run down into a tray at the bottom and out a pipe to the outside.
The water that was condensing was dripping back out the air return then making its way beneath the carpet.


Air return leaking where it should not have.


Damage control blowers drying out carpet and baseboards.


Damage Control dehumidifier drying things out.

So now I have all these blowers and dehumidifiers running until Sunday when they will come and check things out and take their equipment back.

Monday morning the Home owners Insurance adjuster is coming out to evaluate my claim. Will see how much of this will be covered.

Jaguar Project

Received my Jaguar-Daimler Heritage Trust XK120 birth certificate today. Yesterday I got the Insurance papers and proof of insurance cards.

No progress on the car this last week. So we talked about Jaguar-Cosworth cars. Turns out there are not that many. Just a few years of Formula 1 racers. Then Jef broke out the Jaguar-Cosworth wine rack. A blown F1 Cosworth HB engine block with all the cylinder liners removed except for the one with the blown piston. Perfectly good block other than that.
For sale on ebay.