The 289 Register

Actually the door top profile identifies it as an XK140, the 150 was a much 'fatter' looking car with the door top swage line almost at the top of the door. It looked like a 120/140 that had been attached to a bicycle pump. The 150 also had a one-piece screen, whereas this car (140) has a split scre...

This is my current project, as of last September: IMG_6780.jpg And, thanks to lockdown, it's progressed a bit due to lack of interruptions. Luckily I had the sense to get my MIG and TIG gas bottles changed just before business ceased. This week: IMG_8176.jpg Still a long, long way to go. Like buildi...

Just a plug for JR Fabrications - they made the system for my 289, although not the headers which are cast. The intermediate collector was very difficult to do as modern technology does not seem to do 90˚ large-radius sweeps easily. Nevertheless the system is beautifully made, and apart from being s...

Before you fit any door trim strips, be aware that no 'slabside' car was ever supplied with these, and I'm not sure Rinsey Mills' book is correct about the AC289 (coil spring, MKIII) - it's possible that only 427s got this strip as built. Certainly no 'narrow bodied' 289 did, but a few may have had ...

I'll bet the 'FIA' body style never bothered with any sealing strips, so I'd probably leave them off. If you want a replica of a racing car, you have to make sacrifices!

The seals on my car, which is the car in the photos above, are all as original - but this car is aluminium, including the doors. However I did build a Hawk 15-16 years ago and fitted Gerry's seal material in the same position as the originals with no problem, so not sure why yours might be different...

I can only comment on what a leafspring car for the street would have had when supplied - this would have been exactly what Gerry supplies, rectangular cross-section adhesive foam strip (best to use closed-cell neoprene - I doubt that is what was supplied in the early sixties, but it looks the same)...

I wouldn't be, Clive - they're all closed for the duration! My old practice has closed because they can't get the PPE, partly due to idiots buying them to wear in the street. The kind of mask you see the Chinese and Japanese tourists etc. wearing will do you more harm than good, a sure-fire way of e...

I'm doing Minis to Monte in September, and that's still planning to run. Also the Prologue Tour, which should have been next weekend (weekend after the Members' Meeting), has been moved to 2nd-3rd October, which I have entered in the Series 2A Landie - so I think events later in the year will probab...

Dave, you can get half nylocs which are shallower. Type T, like this:

https://www.hubble.co.uk/nuts-washers/nyloc-nuts-type-t

And anything you do with 'percy' probably has no place on a public forum.