Please stay on topic, gentlemen.

Vanaru? Ues.  No!

BenT
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On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:57 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:

> As long as you're happy with it, that's the important thing.
> 
> I don't think 'jaguar' and 'chevrolet' have ever been put into one word ..
> such as Fordallac - a Cadillac with a Ford engine.
> 
> so yours would be a Jag-olet ?
> Jagolay ..I like that .
> sounds dirty somehow. lol !
> 
> On 6/29/2012 8:18 PM, Tom Hargrave wrote:
>> I have the best of both worlds.
>> 
>> I own a 1976 XJ with a built Chevy 350 engine and THM400 transmission!
>> 
>> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
>> www.stir-plate.com
>> www.towercooler.com
>> www.kegkits.com
>> www.grow-sun.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
>> Scott Daniel - Turbovans
>> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 5:03 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Friday NVC-MGB engine that rebuilds itself
>> 
>> The carbed version of the XJ6 is pretty nasty all right.
>> The EFI version has to be better.
>> 
>> I once saw the 'climate control' unit in that carbed XJ6 my friend owned.
>> ..
>> a huge box about 10 X 1- inches, with big gears in it ...
>> just impossibly large and mechanical ...
>> Humorous, how archaic looking it was.
>> 
>> Got to give big points for the design of the XJ6 though.
>> Read a whole long story one time about how Sir William Lions had a great eye
>> for just the right line .
>> That article said he'd take his best panel beaters out behind the shop and
>> start shaping metal until it looked just right.
>> Some of the best looking cars ever made ..
>> the 'feline' looking Jags of those days.
>> 
>> Shapes gain in their purity as the years go by. You could not change one
>> line by a quarter inch and make that car shape better..so 'pure and honest'
>> is the shape.
>>    Same for other cars too ..the 300SL for example...just visual perfection.
>> 
>> here's another quiz ....matter of opinion of course, and ..
>> what is the All Time Best post-war American car design ?
>> The best looking, most iconic, most 'pure american' car design or shape ?
>> And sexy too.
>> Especially if counting only cars after WWII.
>> 
>> Scott
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/29/2012 2:23 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>>> Scott;
>>> 
>>> RE the XKE: that would have been an easier mistake (than an MGB) to
>>> make since both cars had the "backwards" opening hoods. Never saw an
>>> XKE engine with a dual carb setup either, though my wife's POS XJ6 had
>>> those two sorry unadjustable smog-bergs on essentially the same
>>> engine.
>>> 
>>> But if one were smart enough not to have fooled with any of that junk,
>>> one wouldn't know, right?
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Mike Miller <mwmiller6@att.net> wrote:
>>>> But it still might be an MG B engine. I believe it would bolt right
>>>> up to a spitfire.
>>>> 
>>>> Mike
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jun 29, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> heck..
>>>>> if they're gonna get the sport car brand completely wrong why didn't
>>>>> they call it a Jaguar XKE ? !
>>>>> Hell..why not call it a 300SL Gullwing then !
>>>>> 
>>>>> I love that Peter Garrilson ( last name spelling ? )    of Flying
>>>>> magazine wrote this ...
>>>>> 
>>>>> "There is no law against technical descriptions or words that are
>>>>> imprecise -- unfortunately."
>>>>> 
>>>>> No kidding.
>>>>> I SWEAR ....it was never like this before everyone had a computer.
>>>>> Back then  people thought when they wrote, though I tend to idealize
>>>>> things I appreciate deeply  - like thoughtful writing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 6/29/2012 11:12 AM, Jim Felder wrote:
>>>>>> That's a Spitfire!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jim
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:04 PM, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Excellent ending!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> But did he replace his fuel lines?    ;)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Neat. Thanks
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Neil.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Stuart MacMillan
>>>>>>> <stuartmacm@gmail.com
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>  From one of my other lists. I need to train my WBX to do this:
>>>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVDrGsaDME
>>>>>>>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVDrGsaDME&feature=youtu.be>
>>>>>>>> &feature=youtu.be
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Stuart
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Neil n
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly  http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> '88 Slate Blue Westy to be named.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"  http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Vanagon VAG Gas I4/VR Swap Google Group:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-
>>>>>>> gas-engines
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