Car Photo of the Day. A beloved mongrel. ;)

Mix and match!

This car is owned by a frequent commentator here on c.g.o… I’ll let him explain the mix & match parts extravaganza going on under the bonnet. Either that or this is the elusive “Series 1.0075 E-type!” 😉

8 thoughts on “Car Photo of the Day. A beloved mongrel. ;)”

  1. Shit.

    I *really* hate laptops. And my fingers…
    I’d just gotten nearly finished with the asked-for explanation..then I hit *sumfin* –and POOF!~~ away went my post….Grrrrr.

    TAKE TWO:

    It’s not nearly as ‘mongrelized’ as it looks; the early ribbed ‘cam box’ covers (the *proper* Brit term) are stronger then the original smooth covers and less prone to cracking; the spark plug wires are run through the center simply because I never liked the ‘piled-all-over-one-corner-of-the-engine’ look, plus it’s better in preventing cross-firing; and when Tweety was a race car (a task for which he was speciallly ordered from Brown’s Lane, by the original owner [the ‘rents were the 2nd]) he got the e-NORMOUS NASCAR 5-pass copper and brass radiator. Dad had his rad shop make it up in ’64 ( I *still* use the same shop!).

    Dad, in his famously terse and spare style (which Chuck loves), summed up the results: “It helps, inasmuch as it staves off disaster *longer*.”

    With the CoolCat fan (TEN thumbs up!!!: http://www.coolcatcorp.com) the car can sit and idle, in 98 degree heat, and the fan actually *cycles*!

    Of course, the famous ‘poiple paint’ is now gone, but will be soon replaced with a similar shade, in honor of “The Big A!” That’s Adrienne Wigton, to whom Tweety ‘belonged,’ and who was simply larger than life!

  2. love the disaster comment!! 😉

    so this is the car I’ve seen Chuck visiting a while back out in the snow in the back of beyond somewhere in middle earth USA is it??

    so when is it due back on the road then?

    Jerome

  3. Yes it is Jerome. I paid Paul a visit when I was in Colorado a few years back. I’ve been back now two other times, but have not found the time to get over to Chez Wigton.

    If you want to see an actual, unretouched photograph of Paul driving this car, click here.

    –chuck

  5. The *hell* it’s not retouched, Goolsbee! Those flames shootin’ out the side pipes are *wa a a ay* too short for a dirt road burnout…..:)

  6. Jerome, with luck, pluck, sheer dogged determination, and reasonably decent weather….I *should* have it streetable by the end of this summer. It won’t have much of an interior, and the doors will most likely not have any window mechanisms in them, but I’ll at least be able to drive it!
    It’s been a pretty difficult row to hoe, given a divorce, and my increasingly-bad arthritis* that I have from shoulders to fingertips.
    Grrr…this gettin’ old shit is fer da boids!

    *Years of wrenching on cold cars, abuse suffered from dirt bikes, mountain climbing, and general bodily abuse have taken their toll, such that I can rub/pound/sand/screw/wrench for about 2 hours at a time, then it’s time for more Vitamin (I)buprofen….!
    In the (badly) paraphrased words of Garrett Morris: “Wrenching on cars, been BEDDY, beddy bad to me.” 🙂

    Hell, it beats the *alternative!*

    I can do the rest this coming winter, at my leisure.

  8. good luck with the E-type Paul – sorry to hear about the arthritis – my Dad has suffered in the same way from years as car and then plane mechanic in the NZ air force

    Jerome

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