George Cole

I was also there. My 1947 Jaguar took first place in the CCCA 1940-1948 Touring Class with a score of 93 points. First time it has been 'professionally' judged. One of the judges asked me to turn on the fog lights. I did. Nothing. Cycled the switch several times with the same result. Then the switch got extremely hot and the car interior filled with smoke. I turned everything off, waited a bit, and then restarted the car. I thought that was the end of the judging, but they picked back up where they left off. Drove it 30 miles back to our Dallas hotel and then towed it back to Florida Sunday and Monday. I took almost 500 pictures there, plus another 300 at the International Jaguar Festival in Dallas where we showed as display only the day before. We also toured with the IJF on Thursday, putting about 80 miles on the car in and around the Dallas-Fort Worth area. All together, we put about 150 miles on the car this past weekend. Sorry TexRiv. I won't steal any more of your thread.

1910 Philadelphia street light maintenance vehicle.

Or a flying saucer gas station in 1979.

How about a Road Yacht RV at a London exhibition in 1927.

The 'Iter Avto', the 1930's version of a GPS. Developed by Touring Club Italiano, this device was more like a “map guidance tool” and came with a set of paper maps. It was tethered to the car’s speedometer that kept the scrolling of the map in proportion to the speed of the car.

Neat looking car. Looks like a lot of fun. Check out Burlen Fuel Systems in the UK. They either have or make parts for practically all SU carbs. You should be able to enter your carb number and get the info you need. If not, contact them directly and they'll help. https://burlen.co.uk/

Michelin double-rivets are a bit smaller than same size Firestones. Not much, but enough for them to fit in the spare tire well when the inflated Firestones wouldn't.

According to this website, Wilcox-manufactured Jaguar and Daimler limos and hearses have been used for generations by the British royals. They transported the coffins of the Queen Mother, Princess Diana, Princess Margaret, Baroness Thatcher, and others. Here's pictures of the Jaguar hearse carrying Queen Mother. Prince Phillip specifically designed his own open Land Rover to carry his coffin. The Queen's 'German procession' wasn't limited to MB. The family was transported in Audi's as well. To use anything but British makes for any of the vehicles in the Queen's procession is a huge affront to all Brits...and should be to all members of the Commonwealth. https://limousines.co.uk/jaguar/

Steve, How about pointing him toward the Gilmore library? Regards, George

With love from Canada to Australia. What's the policy in Australia? Does the car get cut up, crushed, sold at auction, or kept by customs as a play toy? Drug smugglers hid $106 million of crystal meth and cocaine in a sleek vintage Bentley (msn.com)

Like the split window, the fake hood grilles were 1963-only feature...gone by 1964.

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They didn't, but when I wired the additional lights into the semaphore circuit, I added a flasher for each side, so they now do.

Resealable clear plastic so I can store unused parts there and see what they are without having to rip the package open again.

Exactly the way I feel about the semaphores. They are an interesting novelty to demonstrate at shows, but I doubt anyone who did see me use them on the highway would know I was signaling for a turn. Likewise, the car only had one rather dim brake light. So I rewired the front fender marker lights into the semaphores, and added an extra pair of lights inside the rear license plate housing. I wired them up as turn signals and brake lights. They look like they are supposed to be there, and give me turn signals all around, as well as 2 very bright brake lights. Better to be non-original than to have someone sideswipe or rearend me when I'm turning. Also, as I'm still only running vintage New Zealand license plates on the car, I'm trying not to attract undue attention from the Gestapo. The car is licensed in FL, but there's no place to legally mount a conventional license plate, so I keep it under the passenger front seat.

I thought I posted pics of my Jag on an earlier thread...but maybe not. I'll open another to keep from hijacking Dandy Dave's thread any further.

My mistake. I said I could get a replacement set for 500...that's English pounds, not dollars. Plus they add a handling fee. With shipping and customs, they will probably be right at $1k. Again,Dave, sorry for hijacking your thread. However, this might have application if your semaphores are the same as mine, you might want to tell the owner to buy a set of them as well.

I'm not trying to hijack your thread Dandy Dave, but do your semaphores look like these on my Jag? And yes, they are lighted for use at night. A vintage Jag parts dealer in the UK has new ones for $500 per pair. Regardless of whether they are NOS or repros, I'm sure they are in very limited quantity. I probably should bite the bullet and buy a pair of them just in case some smart-assed kid (or adult) decides to grab one of mine and break it off, when I'm demonstrating them at a show. And how often do you see all brass door hinges and pins with grease fittings?

Similar to everything as on my right-hand-drive 1947 Jaguar. The entire right headlight pod is tilted slightly down, plus the left headlight has the solenoid which dips the reflector, while the right headlight turns off on low-beam. And semaphors,..which practically no one knows what they are.

The Tampa Bay Auto Museum in St. Petersburg has 2 1/2 Owen Magnetics. The 1/2 is an operable chassis with complete drivetrain but no body. The one they just bought will undergo a full restoration, as it was restored previously. The unrestored-looking limo had a mechanical restoration (similar to what Ed did with his first White,) and is a running, driving car. I saw the 2 complete cars a little over a month ago. The 1/2 car was not on display at the time.

10 days ago I called the phone number listed in the ad and got a message that the service is restricted access which I do not have authorization to use. Then the phone line disconnected. I immediately sent the OP a PM to establish contact. No response. And the OP has not been back to the Forum since posting the ad 11 days ago. Nice!

Sweet. I love it. You're building a helluva nice brass collection. I've yet to land my first one.

Archie Bunker liked them: "...Gee the old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days."

I can't speak for the AACA stats, but the Florida CCCA members have 322 Full Classics here, including: 9 Auburns 13 Bentleys 10 Buicks 74 Cadillacs 10 Chryslers 2 Coles 13 Cords 3 Delahayes 8 Duesenbergs 3 Franklins 1 Isotta Fraschini 1 Kissel 2 LaSalles 19 Lincolns 1 Locomobile 1 Marmon 2 Mercers 112 Packards 1 Peerless 8 Pierce-Arrows 22 Rolls-Royce 7 Stutz' There are 5071 Full Classics nationwide. So a rough estimate is that about 7% of all CCCA Full Classics are here in FL. As Florida has the 3d largest population in the U.S., it would seem logical that there would be a higher percentage of Full Classics here. On the other hand, CCCA stats are not indicative of the total number of Full Classics. I know at least a dozen or so folks who live here with Full Classics, and are not CCCA members. So the above numbers are definitely low. for example, one individual I know in Miami has 2 Alvis cars. He is not a CCCA member so his cars are not included above. Can an analogy be drawn between the percentage of Full Classics and the percentage of classic cars overall? Maybe...maybe not.

Interesting. Very neat looking car. Ad says it's running and driving.