Ian Callum`s Mk2 Jaguar.

[piman]

Hello John,

"For that amount of money all you need is the imagination and anything is possible. I thought they could have gone to six speed box rather than going with the five speed, that's old hat now."

The trend to greater number of gears is, in my view, retrograde and entirely due to higher and higher specific power outputs and peakier torque curves. The XK, even in modified form has a good spread of torque so doesn't need the extra ratios.
I remember when I was young, a friend had a Vauxhall 3.3 litre Cresta with three speeds, (which at the time I thought inferior to most cars which had four). That car would do 80mph in second gear, so a great spread of speed for one gear, a lesson I quickly learnt, more is not necessarily better.

Alec

[silverfox]

Its not just the Bumper , the interior on both this CMC and Beacham are totally wrong for me , u could be sitting in any new car , when i sit my S type my decision too go classic is confirmed every time . Russ

[stuarthardy]

Interesting debate.

Ultimately, its Mr Callum's car and he can do whatever he wants with it. Like it or lump it (I'll choose to lump it).

In days of yore rich folk used to pay people huge sums of money to build huge tasteless follies in their gardens. These days they pay people huge sums of money to build (tasteless?) one off versions of classic cars. Some things remain constant.

Essentially it is a vanity project in which he demonstrates how he would have done it differently. However, it is an anachronism because it could never have existed before today.

Interested to note that CMC seem to think it was worth patenting the rear suspension set up because I am struggling to see how much the design can be worth unless it can be applied to a great number of different types of cars. We need to get a good look at it.

Regards