Jaguar Classic tour

[matteo68]

As mentioned in Chris Harris & Friends last podcast: “A rebellion against restomods” in which, according to Chris Cooper, is an “abomination, a humiliation, a woke gone mad annihilation in execution of everything which we love about cars and is everything that is wrong with the restomod scene”… worth a listen if you fancy a chuckle: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4rXMG9 ... oyKFTl75Sa

[jtparr]

Personally I was disappointed with the quality of the restoration work of the E types… I don’t know exactly what their labour charges are but they will be expensive … For me that should mean that there is a high level of originality

Original growlers have a warm golden hue and an Ivory soft white colour to the chequerboard pattern… All reproductions are bright gold and a much brighter white… It’s a small detail but it sums up a big use of reproduction parts which was evident on the cars ...

Unfortunately Jonathan, it's not unique to Jaguar - many 'high end' restorations from Porsche, Ferrari, etc 'specialists' resort to the same tactics ... raiding the parts bins rather than tracking down NOS items.

All these 'heritage' restoration departments should employ people whose sole remit is to scour the globe - including outside the internet - in order to find (& then buy/put into storage) those NOS parts.

Unfortunately I think many (most) of the buyers for these sorts of cars have no idea which parts are correct & which are not ...



** This post is in no way meant to detract from Matt's efforts in organising the visit - well done !

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Totally agree….after the visit…(which I am at pains to reiterate was highly professional and a brilliant idea of Matts) I called in at 2 specialists….GB Trim and Coventry Autos

Graham at GB is a decent chap and who has trimmed both Jaguar sets of seats for me and supplied lovely trim kits…remarked that he did the trimming of their continuation E Types and also trimmed that electric version….none of which was acknowledged by Jaguar
Both he and Stuart who runs Coventry Auto’s (a proper XK enthusiast who worked for Jaguar back in the 90’s on the shop floor) said literally, word for word it’s a place run by people who have no idea about how to build the cars properly….

The truly dumb thing that real quality wouldn’t cost any more, and the sad thing is that original cars are being ruined

Perhaps I….and indeed “we” on this forum can be safe in the knowledge that our cars are better….and more cherished….

[matteo68]

Wot he said