Sunday Worship

A recent editorial posting on The Truth About Cars used the term “cathedral” to describe the form of the Jaguar XK engine. So here I present for you the XK, it its namesake chassis. Note the Flying Buttresses of the exhaust. The row of fire-starting sparkplugs within the Nave. The rising Basilica Domes of the timing chains. The coil, perched upon the Choir of the intake manifold like a Gargoyle.

You are invited to Sunday Worship.

6 thoughts on “Sunday Worship”

  1. Notice, too, how the aluminium bits are *not* polished too much! One of my beefs with restos in general is that the Al bits, though pretty when mirror-polished, are almost ALWAYS much more shiny then the factory did. I prefer this look to the mirror finish some insist upon.
    As for which is the “better” mill..well, the 260-and-onwards Ford/283-and-onwards Chubbys may make better HP per C.U, they still will NEVER be as pretty as a Jag engine. I think the XK engine is one of the top 5 best-looking engines of all time!
    So there.

    🙂

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