I found this while surfing the web and thought someone here might be interested in a stalled 3.8S project. Have no connection to this car.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/5536677566419578/?hoisted=false&ref=search&referral_code=null&refer ral_story_type=post

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/105592342809046/search?query=1967%20jaguar

 

Not on our S type register so have passed the details on so it can be added. Looks like a nice car that just needs assembling. At $3500 (about £3190) a good bargain to be had. I would buy it if it was in the UK. Looks like all the hard work has been done.

 

Why do so many S type bonnets/hoods have a gap on the LHS? (RHS of picture.). It is something I notice time & time again! Pressed Steel Fisher???

 

In the picture did you notice that the scuttle flap appears to open the wrong way?

 

If the car were running, it would be an opportunity to investigate which way is the most effective in pushing air through the heater.

Strictly, the Pressed Steel Company and Fisher and Ludlow didn't become Pressed Steel Fisher until the arrival of British Leyland. BMC had not got so far in integrating their two body suppliers. Considering Pressed Steel were often described as at the forefront of development in the 1960s, the assembled bodies they delivered to Jaguar were not so great.

 

I did & laughed.

I'm delighted to say that the CKD SA assembled cars did not suffer the bonnet gap problem, They must have applied the BFH treatment to them on the line. They were assembled over wooden bucks supplied to them by Browns Lane. Why the lower B posts were correct.