MG MGB and MGB GT Tech Talk
OK, its a 1 of 5 Replica, but this was a way cool car. Local art gallery had a concurs car show Saturday, great weather and nice cars, mostly Detroit.
Not sure why pics are so small, don't know how to delete topic, sorry.
Fixed it, scroll down....
Well crap , I can't get the pic to enlarge, looks good from what I can see
Very nice cars. They were built on the leftover D-type chassis, but the factory burnt down and destroyed most of the XKSSs. It's cool to see they are making replicas of these cars because they are soooo rare. Thanks David.
As much as I like Jags, to me this one goes too far. Something about the exagerated shape of the fenders and windshield frame that just look funky to me. A regular Jag ragtop is far more attractive to me, but then I guess I'm just a FD
I have seen one up really close and they are pretty far out.
BTW: Those are the replica wheels that I am doing. Got to build the welding jig though and it looks like my friend Gary is NEVER going to send me the spindle that I need to do that part. LOL
I think they will look great on a B. :-)
Jack
saw one at the Monterey Pre-historics last weekend. A friend of mine used to have one he'd bught new.
Also saw an even rarer Cisitalia sports car from 1949 that had been raced by Ascari. Apparently on auction nexrt weekend, so cash in your whatever and get yourself a neat little red roadster with a 60 hp Fiat 1100cc engine.
I have to agree with Gerry, reminds me of a Corvette Mako Shark version of the XK. Didn't like that after market version of the corvette for the same reason, just too much flair. But as they say...to each his own...
Looks like something from Speed Racer. Man I used to love that cartoon.
I aree with Gerry and the rest. It is just too "fat looking. Jaguars should be sleek and the fenders, (sorry wings) and windscreen are just not sleek. The fenders need to go on a diet and the windscreen needs to go under a low truck and get reduced a bit. As to the "sleek", I think Aston Martin and Jaguar are the only two modern sports cars that still look like a Jaguar and an Aston Martin. There is absloutely no mistaking either one as to what kind of car it really is.
FWIW
George Herschell
My favorite Jag is the SS-Jaguar built in the days before the name change.
I would take that or an XK220 over the XK-SS. But I would not refuse and XK-SS...
Just reading some of the comments, wow I think this car is beautiful... I think it looks very similar to the E Type. Eric, there was an Isetta there also, but I only have video of it, no photos.
I am not sure that these or any photos can justice to the car. If you see one in the flesh you will realize just how very small they are. Much closer to the size of a B in length and width than an E-Type. One of the reasons these fifties and even some sixties race cars went so darned fast is not that they had big ole' honking motors. They were just really, really small and light. My Lotus Eleven had only an 1100CC Climax portable fire pump engine and it went VERY quickly. The legendary Ferrari's and Maserati's are truly tinker toy size when you stand beside them. In the case of the later the Maser called Le Monstre did magic tricks at Le Mans because it was, as I say very small, a fully enclosed coupe about 34 inches high, and it had a 4.9 liter V8 with four cams and about two dozen Weber carbs. The idea of the day back then, as with all racers, and even today was to build simply and add lightness, to paraphrase Colin Chapman. Anyway this SS wasn't designed to be a looker. It was designed to go fast and that meant stretching the least amount of sheet metal over the least amount of chassis structure. To me an early XKE coupe or an XK120 coupe are both easily better looking from a pure aesthetics standpoint, but the SS gains some gold stares just because of it's slick purposeful look. Steve McQueen had the one that I saw so it couldn't have been all bad. LOL
Jack
I've seen an XKSS just once, and agree completely with Jack - they are eyecatching and fierce looking. The exhaust sound is thrilling, and they seem to go like stink. Maybe not esthetically on a styling par with an E-Type, but a real delight.
Jim D
Jim Duke Wrote:
Those of us that have reached "a certain age' will most likely recall the issue of Road and Track in which there was a centerfold of the newly released E Type coupe in crimson red with the cleanest chrome wire wheels on earth.
Breathtaking to a youth then and even so for an old fart today.
I have to say that I can see that centerfold in my mind's eye in an instant where as other notable "Centerfolds" have faded into forgotten history and become grandmothers. LOL
Jack
I'm going to have to say that after reading Eric Dymock's book on Jim Clark that the D-Type looks even better with the "chopped" windscreen.
For example: http://www.pbase.com/threefourfive/image/33717629
Whoo...I need a cold shower!
"""""""""""""""Those of us that have reached "a certain age' will most likely recall the issue of Road and Track in which there was a centerfold of the newly released E Type """"""""""""""""
YUP!!!!!!!
And also the Arnolt-Bristol .....prolly in that same R&T issue...... That just looked like it was going fast standing still......
BUT !!!!!
The XK-SS is the all time most beautiful car that ever was..(in my thinking). And yes ...Steve McQueen had one.....
A cold shower ??............no just gimme 2 mil. (or more) to buy one.
Wacky Arnold did come up with a very nifty name for his cars. At least in the advertising for one of them he called it the Arnolt-Bristol Bolide.
Cool!
Jack
Seems I remember a feature on the McQueen car in a mag not too long ago, will see if I can find it.