Hobo Jungle

[webenda]

The Viper, and many many of the new generation of sports cars, would eat an E-Type's lunch.

The more I watch that XJ13 video the more impressed I become.

1966 Jaguar XJ-13,
Goodwood Course,
3.809 km (2.367 mi),
43.293 seconds,
317 kph (197 mph),
From a standing start.

[rogruth]

Now "Those Were The Days My Friend".

[sarge]

I'm trying to picture the "symphony of angels having gnarly sex".

Think aural, not visual. The sound of a straight-six Jag engine with the throttle to the firewall is un-mistakable and just makes your brain dither between giddy and "GRRRRR".

Short story.
I did a liasson/exchange assignment with the Brits which saw me in Aldershot at the bottom of the Salisbury Plain, which was the big training area in the UK during the Cold War. One evening I heard that unmistakable sound, but coupled with a ringing noise that made one think the Angels brought chains along to the orgy. Loud as can be, and more than one engine as they fell in and out of synch while the odd ringing sound fell in and out at a different frequency. Surreal...

Turned out to be the Welsh Guards arriving at speed in Scorpion recce tanks. The ringing was the tracks on the road and the sound? 4.2 Jag petrol engines wide-open. Marvelous, and a sound never to be forgotten!

[rogruth]

Sarge,

Thanks.An experience I never had the opportunity to have.

[ChipR]

Sarge,

That Scorpion was one mean looking machine, especially at the business end. One day in Tehran, during the revolution, I made a turn whilst in my M38, when I shouldn't have. Wound up in the middle of a convoy, with a truck load of solders in front and Scorpion behind. The solders were rolling on the bed of the truck laughing. I got off that street, pronto!

ChipR

[sarge]

I bet that puckered the bit that winks.

They were nimble as hell, too. I seem to remember they and their relatives could do 50mph on the road without too much trouble, and by "road" I don't mean paved necessarily.

He probably could have run you and your M38 to ground if he wanted to, which probably isn't helping.

[2railjon]

I traded my 1971 Triumph TR6 in for the older Jag. The TR was sporty enough looking but that little cast iron six could never quite make it move.
Fun was having a Vette pull along side the Jag on the interstate. I'd roll with him until about a hundred mph then leave him in the dust.


How about a GT-40 garage find??????
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1090 ... paign=news

[sarge]

Back to the cars, now...

Now "Those Were The Days My Friend".

I'm arthritic as hell, more-so than I imagined after seeing the x-rays and MRI's of the last two months or so as we have been chasing down what is keeping me from travelling much as of late. I even discovered I broke my collarbone once but don't know when for sure (I have my suspicions), just to add that to the list.

But I refuse to put such things in the past quite yet. Bikes might be in the past, and the Lady of the Manor frowns deeply when I say something about airplanes, but an old two-seater of some sort is still in my mind, even if I have to be a little clever about how to get out of the dam thing.

It's time to smile that smile of the petrolhead watching the world going slightly askew through the windscreen, or needlessly downshifting in a tunnel (that reverberating GRRRRR!), or just a pleasant day out (which usually includes a period with the tool bag out and the bonnet up).

I refuse to be "too old" quite yet!

[sarge]

I traded my 1971 Triumph TR6 in for the older Jag. The TR was sporty enough looking but that little cast iron six could never quite make it move.
Fun was having a Vette pull along side the Jag on the interstate. I'd roll with him until about a hundred mph then leave him in the dust.


How about a GT-40 garage find??????
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1090 ... paign=news

Oh, mannnnnnn! Why doesn't that ever happen to anyone I know (like me )?

Hell, I'd be happy to find another Triumph Spit, which was as close as I got to a really pretty roadster (and they can be made to go quite friskily; lots of potential in that little inline 4), another "proper" Mini, or a Spridget (which I never owned but played with several).

I ain't greedy. Really, I'm not!

By the way, before anyone brings up those wifely sensible words like "reliable" or "practical" (let alone "environmentally aware") bear in mind these are all very reliable practical vehicles. I have a Jeep Liberty, a tow-bar, and a mobile phone.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Some of us have more time behind us than ahead of us, so why not play as much as we can while we are still reasonably ambulatory and peeing well.

[sarge]

Murph, mate

A day enjoyed is never a day wasted.

This message brought to you by Ibuprophen, the official snack-food of the Airborne Forces.

[webenda]

Scorpian Tank For Sale
$8,000 Mechanical Service 2010.
http://www.armyjeeps.net/scorpionFV101/FV101.htm

[sarge]

So many toys yet to be played with!

I bet Roger, Murph, and I could get out of that!

[healey36]

Bunch of lightweights...

Now Jon would go for this:

http://auctionsamerica.com/events/all-lots.cfm?SaleCode=LC14

Nobody messes with you when you have your own SCUD, or that 88 would look great on the side yard... The Leopard would be nice too...

Healey

[webenda]

I bet Roger, Murph, and I could get out of that!

I can see it now.