Season 34 Episode 12 of Motorweek has a nice segment featuring a beautiful '71 Series 2 XK-E. Well worth watching if you have access to On Demand or one of the Internet TV services.

Cheers,

Don

 

Be nice,but nope. Lucky to get television here and they say it might be in colour one day...imagine that!! Is it on the wireless?

 

When I was at primary school in the early 70's I never understood why they(my Grandfather and uncles) called the radio a whyliss! ...turn on the whyliss....did you hear the whyliss.....

Until 1980(12 years old) when I bought a ZC-1 Transceiver at a yard sale for 2 bucks(it took me and my best mate a while to carry it home while pushing our bikes with the other hand) and bought it home and my Dad and I got it working. It had blown fuses we fixed with tin foil,something I still carry in the tool kit to this day.

I was listening to all sorts of strange languages and conversations a 12 year old should not have heard(old style internet). I could only receive and not transmit very well,but could get a signal out sometimes using alligator clips and wire from my Dad's garage connected to the neighbours antenna for his ham radio(some things never change)....some of you will get that one.




When my Grandfather saw it he said "you got yourself a real wire less",. That is when I worked out what a whyliss was.

 

Just from a safety perspective, since no one wants to see you burn your car or something/someone else to the ground, fuses are there for a reason, and they blow for a reason. If a fuse blew, 99.8% of the time, it was a really good reason it blew, and replacing with aluminum foil (I don't know where you get tin foil), is a really bad thing to do, speaking as an electrical engineer. Lots of people have caused electrical fires doing that and lost their car or worse.

 

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