From: PhilD on

"Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote in message
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> "PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message
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>> Maybe, maybe not :)
>
> If your 351 didn't have 4v heads and at least a Holley 750, it would have
> got stuck under my Torana's front bumper bar big time :)
>
Never had a power problem. 4v heads for outright power OK but 2v heads
performed quite well and could still make good numbers with the right
combination of cam/carby/manifold/extractors/exhaust/ignition. Long distance
cruising wasn't a problem ;-)
Sarcasm mode on:
As to your comment about being stuck under your bumper, isn't that an
admission that you wouldn't have been able to overtake me and could only
keep up by drafting?
Sarcasm mode off:
>> Anyway, almost all cars on the road across the Hay plains on the Bathurst
>> weekend were Bathurst specials, or so their owners felt.
>
> I'm sure they did.
>
> If you want a fairly good indicator of just how quick the LJ XU1 actually
> was, see if you can find any footage of the 1972 Bathurst race on Youtube
> or similar. It was an outstanding race, and the XU1's crowning moment.
>
I went to Bathurst and saw racing between factory prepared vehicles in that
era, there was generally no performance relationship between them and the
road going versions the public bought. I left that argument to others and
there was no shortage of altercations from either the GMH and Ford diehards
trying to prove otherwise. Sometimes it was close to deaths happening as one
or the other pressed their allegiance too far. There was as much
entertainment in McPhillamy Pk as on the track, so long as you didn't get
dragged in to it. XU1's won on the track, too often, but the reality was
that one would not have suited my getting to work needs of that time
(country commuting on wide open roads on Monday and Friday with 4 bodies and
suitcases).

PhilD


From: ^Tems^ on
Noddy wrote:
> "Roger/DAVO"<Rogerfanclub(a)live.com.au> wrote in message
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>> Noddy says Charlie is me and arselicker Athol says "yes Bwana oh
>> marvellous intelligent one". What a set of tools.
>
> And you have 38 different aliases to escape kill files around here
> because........
>
> --
> Regards,
> Noddy.
>
>

Isn't your 0 key working, 380 would be closer to it.

I am still waiting to see how Roger went after he contacted DAvo about
someone creating a Facebook account in both their names and was going to
make a fortune out of it, oh yeh that's right that was before Roger hit
reply to sender instead of reply to group and emailed me as Roger from
the Davies Video Production email address.

He does have compulsive liar issues to go with his MPD
From: John_H on
D Walford wrote:
>John_H wrote:
>>
>> You really should consider Jaguar in the context of their time.
>
>I think their drive ability is what made them popular in their day,
>nothing made here or in the US can touch them in that regard.
>Too bad they didn't keep up with the times and improve build quality
>over time like the Japs did.

The Japs got a fresh start after WW2, the poms struggled on with a
manufacturing system they'd established back in the days of the
industrial revolution. Engineering expertise was never the problem
(they had among the World's best) but the rest of the system was
already stuffed. They would've been annihilated in the war if it
weren't for American aid.

British Leyland (formed in1968) was the very lasp gasp of British car
manufacturing, as well as a quantum leap backwards in quality
standards.

At the time of its introduction (1949 IIRC) the cammy Jag was the most
advanced car engine design on the planet IMHO. My choice for the
ultimate post war British classic saloon would've been the MkII 3.8S.

The only thing of any consequence that remained of Jaguar under BLMC
was the styling (and the XJ6 is still hard to beat).

--
John H
From: John McKenzie on
Noddy wrote:
>
> "PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message
> news:1l3om.15798$ze1.805(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>
> > Maybe, maybe not :)
>
> If your 351 didn't have 4v heads and at least a Holley 750, it would have
> got stuck under my Torana's front bumper bar big time :)
>
> > Anyway, almost all cars on the road across the Hay plains on the Bathurst
> > weekend were Bathurst specials, or so their owners felt.
>
> I'm sure they did.
>
> If you want a fairly good indicator of just how quick the LJ XU1 actually
> was, see if you can find any footage of the 1972 Bathurst race on Youtube or
> similar. It was an outstanding race, and the XU1's crowning moment.

There's a torana XU-1 dvd that's not bad - fair bit of footage. I'll
share with anyone from here (maybe not roger!) if they email

mail4jmac(a)gmail.com


--
John McKenzie

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From: D Walford on
John_H wrote:

>
> At the time of its introduction (1949 IIRC) the cammy Jag was the most
> advanced car engine design on the planet IMHO. My choice for the
> ultimate post war British classic saloon would've been the MkII 3.8S.
>

Agreed, they were a great looking car and performed very well in their
day, I wouldn't mind owning one as a weekend toy.

> The only thing of any consequence that remained of Jaguar under BLMC
> was the styling (and the XJ6 is still hard to beat).
>

They were/are a great looking car, too bad about the shocking build
quality otherwise I probably would have bought one, I came close to
buying a Daimler version with a crook engine but was put off by the high
cost of parts to rebuild it.


Daryl
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