Jaguar XJC LS3 Restomod in the Shop!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2023
- Episode 159
With Nat on holiday, Cal does another solo tour. It's a Jaguar theme this week with the latest progress on the 2-door MK2 "Project Churchill", the E-Type Roadster "Project Norman" and a visit from an old friend in the shape of an LS3 powered XJC we built a few years ago!
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That XJ Coupe is a stunning car
I was looking forward to 24 minutes on the great XJC. I would love to see more of this beautie going down the road from both inside and outside. It deserves a show all to itself in all fairness!
More XJC!!!
Hammering around a flange! Oooh eer!
Jensen Interceptor ... yes yes yes !
Churchill is a remarkable piece of work. Or at least I love it. Would be like a kid in a sweet shop waiting for it.
Always thought a "Retropowered" Interceptor would be an awesome thing...shame there isnt one in the workshop.
Good to hear there are more XJC builds in the pipeline , one of the best looking cars ever produced to my eye!!
My Sunday afternoon entertainment
Where to see the Lake District from during a storm??
From a seat near the fire in a pub situated well above any potential floods....
Antique Gold, or as I've always called it, Magical Mustard.
The XJC looks amazing 👍
The Allegro fender flares combined with the "crouching" rear end, are combining to make those cars very "fugly". Love the XJC.
just a quick thought on the Allegro lower front vents -if there's space behind, you could incorparate the turn signal lights into the inner vents yo clean up the body a bit -
Once again enjoy all the beautiful things you create.
Pinstripes on the Escort look fantsatic - execution and colour!
Hi all at Retropower! As ususl, the videos are awesome, and what you make so inspiring.
I’m a designer bookbinder and hand bind really high spec individual books. If youre interested I could bind your owners manuals in leather matching the car’s colour. The Retropower logo could be impressed on the leather.
If you’re interested I could send you some images of what I do.
Cheers guys. I love your work!
The mint green allegro interior would look good with coach/train multicoloured hard velour inserts to the seats and door trims.
Looking at the windscreen pillars on the E-Type is a reminder you really don't want to have a accident in one!
True but you seen the sills ? Battleship style reinforcing.
I'm looking fwd to see this E-type in final trim; think it's going to be stunning!
I have fantasized about this conversion and the sane fir the Mercedes 1972 250C
Orange! Yes, I nailed the strip color for the mk1! To be fair that was the only choice..😂
Rember seeing the XJ coupe at retro rides, I fell in love with it and it’s still my favourite car. Just wish I had one….
Thx guys, always looking forward to the episodes on the end of the weekend!
Not enough subs. Amazing skills here, creating beautiful cars. Well done guys, this is what we should be doing much more of going forward, restoring and improving more magnificent machines.
As your re-sculpting the XKE rear quarters, it would be very tempting to redesign the entire to look more like the Series 1.
Another great run through Cal, nice work!
Escort pinstripe is perfect 👌
Hey Cal, when I started at Jag Engineering, Series 3 was the first car I worked on, followed not long after having to figure out electrical whining on the audio systems of XJ40s. Sounds like a combination of what you're dealing with on the XJC. Happy to relive the good old days if you hit a wall on solving the problem.
Well done on applying the pinstripes Cal, that's a job that few would relish and even fewer execute as well. Lovely to see the XJC again, I was wondering whether you'd had orders for any more and unsurprisingly you have!
Perfect combo.
Anyone can make a Capri look good, but it takes a genius to make an Allegro desireable..
Love that xjc looks incredible ❤
I remember my dad had an allegro in vermillion as his company car with a black interior, the colour was pretty radical at the time and don´t remember ever seeing another one in this colour...
Robb Torremolinos Spain
Cal, total agree that a pillerless coupe look great.
Mercedes W124 coupe looks good, pity that Merc only put the 5.0 l V8 in a 4 door Solon.
Mind you the Rover P5b Coupe 4 door looks good and the only retro mod 2 door looks great. Maybe some customers of yours would like to show how these cars should have looked. 🙂
☕️in hand ready see what we’ve done this week 😉 another holiday can’t be bad 😂
We had a H reg Mk1 Escort van ex Eveleigh’s Garage Exeter that came in Ford Light Blue with white side stripes edged with a red pinstripe.
Watch this space - most unneeded line in your videos…. no worries, we are, we are !!!
I’m not sure on the squared off extended guards on the Austin Allegro. It looks like a style from the (probably) the 80’s. A style that didn’t last long because not too many people liked it. Well, that’s my 20 cents worth. But I really like your show. Honest, I do 🙂.
xjc still my favourite
Cal just an idea but when backing the car over the pit, a camera in the pit with a hand held mobile screen would just be an extra safety assist for the driver to see all of the wheels are nicely away from the edges of the pit! ( I always find them a bit nerve-racking when manoeuvring single handed) 😁
Or at least a Guide plate along the length of the pit,on both sides. Looks well sketchy🫣
@@markwalton8644 that is how all the ones i have ever seen in germany were built. also a last warning as you walk backwards into the hole......
With all due respect, any chance of more details on the beautiful xjc restomod Cheers 😊
While the Jag's back home you could rip out that LS and replace it with a Jaguar V8. LS motors belong in Chevies or on the scrap heap and never in cars they weren't meant to be in!
I'd be confident the LS is lighter than any Jag engine. The thing I don't like is the wheels - they look low-end, like from a Viva GT or something similarly povo
@@stephenscholes47584.2l Jag engine is 227kg, 5.7l LS is around 210kg. Not sure if that includes the blower but most of that weight is probably gained in cams and timing drive parts.
At the end you said you probably missed something and you did. The Interceptor. Also can you take the back lights sheet metalwork off the back of the E type, them light’s always looked so bad.
Have you seen the XJC restored in Australia ? amazing car - running a Barra turbo 6 Cyl.
Cal, I know it isn't quite what you might expect, but if the prospective owner is game, could you do a thumb through and quick discourse on the owner's manual? Tbh, there are a number of shops that work at your level- and it's things like that manual that I think help set you and Nat apart. A bespoke auto mobile really needs a bespoke manual on it's care and feeding! The XJC is awesome; love that after your replaced the drivetrain with, shudder, and LS engine and I'll bet a late model GM auto tranny, it still looks like a Jag, it moves like I would think it should. Glad to hear it has already brought new contracts to the shop. Churchill is coming on to show all the work invested; I wasn't sure the proportions would work on the original WB, but it looks a treat as you have it now. Glad Nat is getting his vacay done; back to the old mill, it is! Btw, the pinstripe was just the sort of really "fiddly bit" you and Nat do as a matter of course- and what you feel expected to do. Awesome is both a verb as well as an adjective your shop brings to mind with each new drop.
How about 'NUGGET GOLD' for a nice vintage feel.
Very enjoyable, pure enthusiasm. The work on the Mk2 coupé is excellent. I'm not so sure about the E-type roof and roll bar lines.
Could you show the BDA alternator mounting please next week?
Yes, thought the same about the E Type, in the renderings that top looked atrocious.
@@gazzafloss Yes. RP are usually a "safe pair of hands" (I'm much more worried about the customers!). However, to my knowledge most projects of their have been coupés or saloons.
The solution shown is very 70s. I would suggest that they can look either more retro (individual hoops) or more 90's (hoops that pop up taken from a Boxster or Z4).
Churchill is going to be drop-dead gorgeous when it’s done. An incredibly sympathetic job, and I prefer the look to Utah. Allegro babyturd was called Harvest Gold, iirc - the green was called cowshit (damhikijkok). Like the nod to the quartic steering wheel, too. Also completely in love with the Land Cruiser.
Quartic
@@johnbriggs3916 ah yes, autoincorrect strikes again.
My man on the allegros that your to be more radical with. If your looking for different wheel that i feel will look really good, would be the 84 Toyota supra styled wheels. Now naturally you have to widen the wheels maybe 9.0” out back 8.5 up front
Teal Allegro gets my vote!! (11:43)
Ok guy's here's the deal with the Allegro's one we call the All Agro as that is what it will be when finished, so make the decal's n steering wheel so!!. The other can be named Allagro Asbo!!,
Spot on job on the pinstripes, Cal!!! ❤
Why is "Project Kuma", so called?
Love the progress with the two Allegro projects! Great designs too! Would Retropower and one of their Allegro owners look at going down the Renault 5 turbo2 Maxi look? Each of these car will have incredible, modern day performance, so why not envisage one of the Allegro as the ‘evocation of a car that may have been produced in period as an homologation special’?
I'm intrigued about Churchill copper trim. Will it be new penny shiny or tarnished? Have to wait and see I suppose. Stu's an extraordinary artist. British Leyland brown? Brave choice but what other options do you have? Beige?
Thanks for taking the time to make the vid. Much appreciated.
Square steering wheels on all cars from now on
who else wanted to see hammering the flange
Love the XJ-C but it would absolutely have to have a Jag V8, not an LS….!
Hi, what was the selemix marine product you use? I’m looking to coat a subframe and I’m not a fan of powdercoat.
What colour is Churchill going to br painted? Those copper-plated fixtures on the front might look great with the right contrast, but I can visualise some fairly horrible clashes.
I really like what you guys do , do you have any stickers or merchandise stuff going
Is the stand alone DBW a commercialy available unit?
Jim From Hong Kong
on the subject of "baby shit brown" , there used to be (maybe still there) a hospital in New Zealand called Karitane Hospital that dealt with premature babies and ante natal, so our baby shit green was called "Karitane Yellow"
Get some of the 'cutting tape' they use in wrapping cars.
In previous episodes they've said the Jensen is on hold due to the client, it's owner, having some sort of "temporary financial crisis".
WHY would you retract a roll bar it's there for safety.
If you lived by the sea would you reign back on the exrernal billet mods ?
Really struggling to see the beauty in those arches on the Allegro projects, they look very obviously 'bogged on' & don't really seem to flow with the original lines, to my eyes at least. To be fair it's very colour sensitive as the turquoise version looks a bit less full on ironically. Always subjective but my vote always goes wiyh E30 M3 / UR q / 944 style treatment...guess that's an '80s look. Can't beat a bit of corduroy though....only bright coloured tartan is more '70s!
I thought the Allegro's arches might grow on me over time. They're not, in fact they're getting worse to the point of looking like something out of a Richard Grant accessories catalogue.
Agreed.They should be rounded to suit the rounded look of the body.Andthe fronts could be slimmed down slightly.
I get the rears but the fronts look terrible from here. Rather see a rounded arch like mexico etc
I said that many months ago when they showed the first rendering. I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but as said above it looks like an afterthought and some defender arches slapped on. I’m sorry it’s all personal preference but I also think they should be more round (as in escort arches) to follow the roundness of the alegro
@@shaunsheep8252 From memory I posted the arches looked wrong at the same time as you and it is subjective as you said. I would disagree about Escort Mexico arches being a better alternative as these are from an earlier design language, and as they were to facilitate longer wheel travel had a different purpose. The mockup treatment appears quite overdone, look concave on the leading and trailing surfaces, and manage to make the wheels look small.
What is the advantage of using lead as body filler? Modern body fillers are very good and easy to use.
I like that XJC. Is it up for sale?
Um, the Green Allegro rendering looks a lot like Jonny Smiths retro Honda powered Project?!
the roll bar on the Jag. Mercedes had one that flipped up i a roll-over incident. if it is down then how is it going to protect anyone in an accident and if it is up to the owner what protects them from absent mindedly forgetting to put it up?
What are you doing to the “invisible” Jensen Interceptor?
I would have thought Nat and his sister would go on holiday to the Isle of Man because of the deviants. (Fast Show sketch for anyone baffled by this)
It surprises me that no primer gets used on fresh metal work being undertaken to stop rusting over the months it takes to turn a car round. It must be suitably warm air in the workshop. Also, I didn't have me glasses on, but at 20:59, did that say ' Ming Inspection Pit'? If your looking for an employee to work in this particular area, I'm sure you will have a que round the block.
They sandblast then zinc coat everything again after metalwork so primer isn't needed.
@@mattsmith4053 Roger
From certain angles Churchill looks like a Moretti 750 GT, an obcure Italian from the 1950's.
Is the “baby sick” colour Allegro the same project car that belongs to Jonny Smith? And is the redux E30 M3 a Leichtbau Redux M3?
Original baby shit green on the outside and classic nappy filer colour on the outside
squared wheel arches on a rounded car ???the allegro
The number plate on the XJC looks to have wider spacing between the numbers than the letters, looks weird to me. I’d be looking at it thinking what word is it meant to say.
How much do these cars cost?
What colour is the Camaro ?
10:11 Nope, no Jenson Interceptor there, no sirree bob there isn't. Move along please sir, nothing to see here. 😁
Has the Mustang left?
What's happening with the Jensen Intercepter?
In a previous episode I think it was mentioned that it was delayed by customer money issues.
@@Andrew-vx2lsWasn't that the CV8?
@@stephenholland5930 Yes. It was the CV8, but Roy muddled things up and I did not wish to upset him ;-)
I have asked this question before but it was before you started to answer questions regularly so here goes. Would you consider doing small runs of cars if the demand was there? A bit like the Escort and to a lesser extent the Redux M3 (cause although you make it its from Redux) I was just thinking how beneficial it could be to the original owners as a run of 5 cars would surely make stuff a bit cheaper rather than a one off. I suppose it comes down to how precious the original customer is about wanting a one off. It's just looking at the 3 door Jag it looks amazing and you've obviously done it properly and lowered the roof line and altered the door lengths. I can see at least 4 other customers wanting one. Same with the Land Cruiser, Stratos and even the Morris Minor its weird i've never been into Morris Minors but I just love the look of that it looks ace! Any thoughts?
I guess the fact that they are booked up for a number of years on builds there is no time or commercial advantage in doing more 'runs' of cars. Redux was probably negotiated some time ago.
Blimey I didn't realise they were booked up for a number of years!@@alansheard553
3 door Jag?
Yeah what they call project Churchill a 2 door version of an original 4 door car. @@stephenholland5930
Still prefer how the xjc came out of the factory .
like 1.8 K
The jag xj coupe is fabulous but would be so much better with a jag v8 from an f type..that Ls3 is just wrong
Sorry guys, but Churchill's bonnet catch is not in keeping with the rest of the vehicles quality 🤔
More Jags - YES, more Alegros NOOOOOOOOOOO.
So don't tell us about the Jensen Interceptor because we're not really interested.
One of the biggest downfalls of the entire blmc production line at the time of the allegro was the bloody awfull colour choices offered by the penny pinching government owners
Find the NHS diagnostic guide for all possible colours of human faeces and you’ll see the BL colours are all there, Harvest Gold etc. I strongly suspect some joker changed the names and submitted it for a laugh and the bosses said OK
It was because the colours didn’t matter after the first 3 years, as they rusted or broke before that! Pretty much all the mainstream manufacturers had horrible colours, it was the 70’s.