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So, after yearning for one for 40 years my dad just bought this:



So, as this is a 45 year old car from England, it's full of small gremlins even though it was sold as perfect

So has anyone here any experience on these? I guess I could buy an Haynes manual ASAP anyway.

Great looking car, your dads a very lucky man, the best looking classic car ever and it's British!!! It's a shame it didn't stay in production like the 911 and improve with age, instead we now just build cars for Germany & Japan and lost our pride and heritage in the process.

Vegard wrote:
my dad just bought this:

So has anyone here any experience on these?

Nice car

We do have atleast one member inhere, with one of these beautifull cars.
He is easy to find = same user name, as your thread


Jens Christian

Nice car V...

My dad always wanted a Roller and got one that he kept for a year, It reminds me of his car as it was exactly the same colour..

Being originally American, I've had lots of cars, including about 8 Jaguars, one of which was a 68 E coupe which I bought as a front-end total loss. It really only needed a bonnet, front cross-member and bonnet subframe. Fine cars, though problematic. Seems like everything is marginally built. I've had failures of fan motor, generator, wiper motor, heater motor, gauges, distributor, gearbox, differential, rear end bushings, gas tank sump, fuel pump, leaking carbs, exhaust, wire wheels, yes the list goes on nearly forever. The rear brakes are a REAL pain. But when it runs, it is long-legged, but never as much fun as my Frogeye and TR-3.
I had been working at a "foreign car" garage for nearly 20 years. There were lots of customers with all types of exotic cars. I will say I like the 4.2 much better than the 12 cyl. And as said, it's British. Lots of higher end British cars like the Aston DBS and Rolls used foreign components like Chrysler engine, Hydromatic box and/or Bosch injection. At least the later Jags with FI made their own injectors.

Frogeye61 wrote: Rolls used foreign components like the Hydromatic box and/or Bosch injection.

it was always said that Rolls Royce where astounded at the quality of the American automatic gearboxes, and they had no problems using them in the 1960's on cars.

Nice, where I was working last my boss bought 62 flat floor fhc.. It wasnt cheap 18k as a project! He was upto 12k in panels alone before I left! Haha, expensive! And yes, those rear brakes! They are imboard for those that don't know.. Changing them in place isn't plesant! I would say that they were well ahead of the game in regards to running gear and chassis etc against what else was out at the time! My dad has one of the last Healey 3000's and they are more like a tractor in comparison..

I owned one for about ten years. It ran for about 74 days of that. I must say, without a doubt, the most beautiful car I have ever owned. People still stop and stare at them and they sound great.

The only advice I would give is to drive it. ALOT. These things do not like to sit. Anything rubber or filled with fluids will deteriorate at an even faster rate if you let it sit. Just drive it and fix what goes wrong because stuff is going to go wrong either way so you might as well have fun.

Good luck.