I found this over at Jay’s Garage and had to share. This is the famous “Short Wheelbase Series 3” car, a one-off creation of Jason Len from XK’s Unlimited where he shortened a 2+2 Series 3 car down to the original size of the Series 1, complete with the Series 1 rear tub and covered headlights (though still with the Series 3 grille.) Mr. Leno bought it from Mr. Len 15 years ago and in this video talks about its creation and takes it for a test drive. The best part is the latter half of the clip where he talks about sports cars in general and their designs. Enjoy!
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You should have patented your JagCam!
Cuppla things:
-It’s NOT a ‘flyaway’ parking brake; that one is a ‘standard’ handbrake. Flyaways are where you SET the brake by PUSHING the button, which is like many early British cars. (MD should back me up on this’un!). Jay doesn’t always get things right!
-The Wilwoods DO NOT stop better than the stock brakes, they’re just cheaper to fix.
-The roadster looks TONS better with the less-steep rake of the 2+2 windshiled: IMHO, that transforms the cars looks. Had Jag done that…they might have survived…or not!
-Lastly, Jay *needs* a Blowviator!