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Saturday, March 31, 2012

2012 All British car show

All British car show held in Mead Garden in Winter Park, Florida.

No award for my Jaguar this time (peoples choice awards) not a concours.

I added a couple of Jaguar stickers for a series III XKE V-12. They look like they belong.

Good showing of Morgans.

Mini Coopers

Morgans.

Jaguars.

Brand new 2012 XKRS.

Jaguar luxury sedan.

Lots of E-types.

and XK120, XK140 and XK150s.

Mead garden is a very nice venue for displaying these British cars.

A few Rolls and Bentleys showed up.

Nice MG.

and another nice one.

Austin Healys.

Jaguars.

XKRS with the bonnet up. Super charged, but a devil to maintain yourself.

A lot of cars and people showed up.

Jaguar Club of Florida had a good turnout.

Very nice day to be out to a meeting like this.

Monday, March 19, 2012

On the road and finding little things to fix.
Installed Hellwig helper springs to stiffen the ride a bit and raise the rear an inch.
Took off the left rear tire and had a nail removed and repaired.
Removed the radiator and had a small leak fixed.
The fan belt (actually the fan is electric and belt only connects the crankshaft pulley to the water pump and alternator) decided to shred itself and wrap a bit around the alternator pulley. I ended up removing the belt tension pulley, as it was redundant and weighs about 2 pounds. I found the shorter the belt, the cheaper it is.

I had taken this picture while the radiator was out for repair.

On one of my exploration jags around central Florida on an unpaved country road I heard a strange noise. Stopping to check it out, I found the clutch cable was intermittently dipping into the dirt. I had to cut a piece of wire from license plate light to tie it up to get it up and not get damaged.

Shady spot to make a quick repair.

Another problem I finally found was once in awhile pushing the clutch all the way down the engine would stop. Not just the engine, but everything, gauges, radio, GPS. The clutch pedal was hitting the battery cable to the starter and had worn through the insulation, shorting out the battery, but not blowing any fuses. It is the only non-fused circuit on the car.

Photo take by John Falco during JCOF rally in January.

I replaced the wire I had borrowed from the licence plate light, and re-routed the clutch cable to get it above the frame.
So I have been having fun driving and playing McGiver.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Winter rally

First in class

Beautiful day for a drive with the Jaguar Club of Florida.

Leaving Cracker Barrel after getting directions.

Speedometer check, coffee and donuts at Orlando Jaguar dealer.

Icecream break in Windemere.

Waiting for everyone to finish their icecream.

Ginger's V12 in resting mode.

Stop at C.A.R.E to view the animals.


Route 46 restaurant in Sanford for late lunch and awards.

Actually came in 2nd from last. There were only 2 cars in the class.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

January Jaguar

By lake Apopka.

By Shepard Lake.

I lowered the front end by adjusting the torsion bars. The front was about 3/4" higher than the rear. Now 1-1/2" lower. That should keep the front end from lifting at high speeds.

By lake Apopka.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Day tripping AKA Jagging

Weather has been beautiful so I have been out exploring almost every day this last week.

Abandoned old cottage between Mt. Dora and Jem Lake.

Orange grove west side of Lake Apopka

Put on about 320 miles this week close to 25MPG.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Sunday Dec 11 country ride.

My daughter, Evelyn, and I went for a nice little country ride this afternoon and ended up for lunch in Mount Dora at Jeramiah's. After lunch we went looking for the old steam engine and found it in Tavares, but no good photo angles or places to park. So we continued on and found this in a vacant lot.