I wonder if the site supplying the pictures of your post is trying to block links from other mass sites like this one. Some of those put up an advertisement but maybe that site just blocks the links when called from a mass site like Edmunds.
I had taken the direct link and viewed it in a separate web page, so the site answered my call for the link. Then the picture was in my cache. When I viewed it after I posted the picture as a forum post, my computer showed it since I already had the picture from the hostile site.
I just verified my theory.
In IE, right click and choose, Show picture. If that doesn't work, choose Property and copy the URL. Open a new copy of IE and paste that URL into the bar. Then the picture shows. Once you're back to the origina forum page, you can refresh page or choose "Show picture" and the picture is there.
I thought that at first, but now I quite like it. There have been several commercially produced versions of a Jag Estate/Wagon/Shooting Brake, though this is a one-off.
Apparently no automotive history was lost in its creation as both cars were originally in very poor condition.
See my previous post, apparently both cars were very rusty, and back in the seventies neither were as collectible as they are today.
Here are some details:
Originally built by a Jaguar enthusiast Geoffrey Stevens in the mid 1970s. The late Mr Stevens, who worked as an industrial chemist in the tanning industry, built the vehicle to give himself extra room to transport goods as well as his two Labrador dogs.
He and his wife needed a more practical car to transport kit around with room for their two dogs and he decided to do his own conversion.
It took him several years to complete, using a very rusty Jaguar XK150 and a Morris Minor. You can see exactly where joins the other. The hybrid has a 3.4 litre engine and has a French numberplate, though it was registered in the UK prior to 2000 with number plate '558 NOT'.
It is now being sold by Bonhams auctioneers at their Goodwood Revival Sale in Chichester, West Sussex, on September 16.
I actually don't mind it, to be honest. It looks like another weirdo period conversion, as you mention it was simply the melding of two old heaps back when they were worthless, and it would probably piss off some fanboys.
Still no excuse. The XK was 20 years old by then and valuable in its time, and they only made 4100 of them total. Also his creation strikes me as hideous.
As for the Morris, okay, I have no problem with that.
You have to remember that Jags rusted very badly in those days, and the cost of spare parts was commensurate with those of a new one.
A friend of mine back in the late sixties/early seventies had an old XK140 which he bought for a hundred and fifty pounds. Cheap to buy but expensive to run at between 10 and 12mpg. It had large holes in the floor, the front fenders had rusted through at the rear and flapped in the breeze, but the interior leather as luxurious (I can smell it now).
He ran it for a year until it broke down in a big way, then just abandoned it. His next car was an XKE (E Type) which I think he paid three or four hundred pounds for.
Back then there was little interest in an old Jag except as a fast beater. Pretty much the equivalent of buying an old Camero or Firebird here in the US nowadays.
It's an Isetta. Could be a three of four wheel version.
I like this one. Can you imagine seeing that blue light in the mirror as you speed down the freeway (or more likely the autobahn in that particular case)?
Up until at least '76, the Eldorado was considered part of the top Fleetwood line, even if it was a totally different car. I remember the brochures stating "Fleetwood Eldorado".
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I thought you might recognize that one. It's not related to the Nova but is a very close relative of another US design and sold well in South America. You can probably guess the country of origin from the still.
Someone on Edmunds staff just posted that photo - if you can access it, see if you can identify the vehicle!
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The link in andys120's post had some extra garbage on the end after the .jpg. I cut that off.
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2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
<img src="http://schumpeter2006.org/images/1950-ford-car.jpg" width="650" height="487"
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2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
I had taken the direct link and viewed it in a separate web page, so the site answered my call for the link. Then the picture was in my cache. When I viewed it after I posted the picture as a forum post, my computer showed it since I already had the picture from the hostile site.
I just verified my theory.
In IE, right click and choose, Show picture. If that doesn't work, choose Property and copy the URL. Open a new copy of IE and paste that URL into the bar. Then the picture shows. Once you're back to the origina forum page, you can refresh page or choose "Show picture" and the picture is there.
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A 1950 to be exact
Hopefully it's showing up?
There have been several commercially produced versions of a Jag Estate/Wagon/Shooting Brake, though this is a one-off.
Apparently no automotive history was lost in its creation as both cars were originally in very poor condition.
My god, the horror of it...
A formerly very valuable Jaguar XK150 fixed head coupe and a formerly collectible Morris Traveler.
Here are some details:
Originally built by a Jaguar enthusiast Geoffrey Stevens in the mid 1970s.
The late Mr Stevens, who worked as an industrial chemist in the tanning industry, built the vehicle to give himself extra room to transport goods as well as his two Labrador dogs.
He and his wife needed a more practical car to transport kit around with room for their two dogs and he decided to do his own conversion.
It took him several years to complete, using a very rusty Jaguar XK150 and a Morris Minor. You can see exactly where joins the other.
The hybrid has a 3.4 litre engine and has a French numberplate, though it was registered in the UK prior to 2000 with number plate '558 NOT'.
It is now being sold by Bonhams auctioneers at their Goodwood Revival Sale in Chichester, West Sussex, on September 16.
As for the Morris, okay, I have no problem with that.
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Hey, I did it, I posted a picture for the first time in 3 days
I wonder if anyone else can see it? :confuse:
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You have to remember that Jags rusted very badly in those days, and the cost of spare parts was commensurate with those of a new one.
A friend of mine back in the late sixties/early seventies had an old XK140 which he bought for a hundred and fifty pounds.
Cheap to buy but expensive to run at between 10 and 12mpg.
It had large holes in the floor, the front fenders had rusted through at the rear and flapped in the breeze, but the interior leather as luxurious (I can smell it now).
He ran it for a year until it broke down in a big way, then just abandoned it.
His next car was an XKE (E Type) which I think he paid three or four hundred pounds for.
Back then there was little interest in an old Jag except as a fast beater.
Pretty much the equivalent of buying an old Camero or Firebird here in the US nowadays.
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Yup, it's a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado Wasn't the Fleetwood the top-of the line big sedan and a separate model from the Eldo?
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I would have preferred he had made something worthwhile out of it---even an SCCA car or put a V8 in it---but what he did was so....well....you know.
He didn't "modify" it, he destroyed it.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
I like this one. Can you imagine seeing that blue light in the mirror as you speed down the freeway (or more likely the autobahn in that particular case)?
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
The badge on the grille is the only interesting thing about it.
The side view is certainly plain.
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A Mad Hatter. :P
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ohhhh... 2 demerits for misspelling Alfa.
I actually kind of like it.
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I know it's not, but the C-pillar must've been inspired by that Nova we saw recently.
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edit - also called an IKA (Industrias Kaiser Argentina) Torino...
edit - also called an IKA (Industrias Kaiser Argentina) Torino..
Correct on both counts and isn't it amazing how much a little Latin grillework spiffs up a plain Jane like the Rambler American?
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Someone on Edmunds staff just posted that photo - if you can access it, see if you can identify the vehicle!
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