A Christmas gift - Carisma Century Build manual

John Williams, a fellow Carisma Century owner, has painstakingly scanned a complete Carisma Century build manual and I am making this available to any interested parties via this blog. Please email ocheye@mac.com if you would like a copy.

I will pass on your thanks to John for this Herculean effort.

Merry Christmas

Christmas present ?

How fortuitous that my Christmas present should appear on EBay this week http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1937-SS-Jaguar-2-1-2-litre-Sports-100_W0QQitemZ300378614941QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item45eff5ec9d#ht_1218wt_1144. All I need now is for my numbers to come up on Saturday.

We can all dream can't we?

All I want for Christmas is.........

...well this Saoutchik bodied SS100 would do just nicely though I would settle for a plain, ordinary, bog-standard one ! For that matter the book this pic is from would be nice http://www.saoutchik-jaguar.de/jahreszeiten.htm. I'd even settle for a magic wand to sort out my wiring as my garage is a bit wintry up here in the frozen north.

Can I take this opportunity to wish all visitors to this blog a great time over this coming holiday season and a happy and prosperous New Year. Keep dropping by and feel free to contribute!!!

Steadman TS 100

This Steadman tS 100 has been for sale all over the place. EBay, Total Headturners, I want that one etc. I don't know if it ever actually sold. Prices have differed somewhat. They were, I believe, handmade in the 70's in Hayle in Cornwall and were pretty expensive. They're Jag powered. According to the Suffolk SS newsletter of 1998, it used XJ6 front and rear subframes and was six inches wider than the original. The wheelbase was too long and the car suffered from very low ground clearance. It cost £36000 almost 20 years ago. I think it could, perhaps, have benefitted looks wise from larger diameter and slightly skinnier wheels. It may have cured the ground clearance problem but probably would have compromised the handling. It's very nice just the same and I wouldn't say no to one!